The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-30
PREACHERS AT LAW.
They Become Real Estate Boom
ers and Fall Out.
REFEREES sATiRIcAL REPORT.
Sewer Contractor Enjoins North Yak.
ima-Architect Sues for Commits
sion-Thc BIotter.

lawsuit between two preachers over q real
estate trade has been pending for some time,
and yesterday the referee filed his report The
plaintiff is William W. Beck, who besides being
q preacher, described himself as 4 real estate
dealer, miner. land owner, buyer and seller.
Mr.. Beck owned large tracts of land near Ra-
VIENNA Park, and among others whom he en-
ployed to sell lots was the Rev. J. K Kirkpat-
rick, pastor OF the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, at Lebanon and Brownsville, Or. After
having sold good deal of property, Mr.. Beck
and Mr.. fitzpatrick seem to have had a dis
agreement as to the amount of commissions
which Mr. kirkpatrick was to receive, and it
resulted in Mr.. Beck bringing two suits against
him.
The questions in dispute being of similar
nature they were consolidated by order OF the
court and referred to Attorney Boyd J. Tallman,
as referee to report the findings of fact and
conclusions Of law. Mr.. Tallman filed his re.
port yesterday, in which he finds that Mr.. Beck
is entitled to Judgment against Mr.. Kirkpat-
rick for the sum OF 81 ,o69.o2.
Mr. Talman divides his findings into several
sections most of them dealing with the intrica.
cies of the transactions aud the testimony. In
the first section he says:
In the latter part OF the year 1889 the
defendant, j. X. Kirkpatrick, was engaged in
the quiet and peaceful occupation of expound-
ing the scriptures and preaching Christ and
Him crucified to the grave and sedate inhabit.
ants OF the towns of Lebanon and Brownsville,
in the state of Oregon, according TO the tenets
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and
the plaintiff, W. W. Beck, was also, about the
same time, engaged in the work of retaining
lost souls ana III trying to persuade those who
dwelt in, around and about the lovely vale
known Ravenna Park to abandon the lives of
sin they had been leading aud follow in the
footsteps OF the Carpenter of Nazareth, in ac-
cordance with and as laid down by the tenets of
said Cumberland Presbyterian church
Had these two reverend gentlemen continued
IN ri nd fsanve
tent with laying up treasures in heaven your
referee would not have been called upon to
make these findings. and your honor would
have been relieved from the unpleasant task of
reviewing the testimony in relation to the deal
ings OF two men, who, to paraphrase the we'll
known sentence stoe the Livery of heaven to
giants are only human: they have the same
natural desires, passions and ambitions as lay
men. the same hopes and aspirations, therefore
when the very wind in and around Seattle
seemed to be singing:
"Oh, no for the wild woody Westl
Ie tender, come forth and invest;
Come fly up the fiume
In the real estate boom
Among the financially blest,'
then II was, no doubt, that they began to look
round them and see men who, in their estima-
ton. were not their equals either mentally or
morally. robed, so to speak, in purple and fine
linen, while their own Christian bodies were but
scantily and almost stability clad.
The awful fate which overlook Ananias and
CoPpuho uiteI tudS lttie Tc6l eBtdte kIduSACtlOU,
In which they failed to correctly state the con-
sderation received, seems not to have deferred
these two followers of the Divine Man from
boldly embarking in the real estate brokerage
business. With a zeal worthy of any cause they
sailed forth All Of the arts and tricks of the
professional real estate boomer were brought
Into play.
Mr.. Tallman gives some examples of the adj
vertisements and dodgers, and continues:
In addition to the above the plaintiff, Rev. w.
". Beck, while visiting his Christian brother
ana fellow real estate agent, Rev. j. r. Kirk
patrick. at his parish in Oregon, preached for
him, and after the sermon had been preached,
ana presumably an appropriate prayer offered
up to the All-seeing One, hymn sung and the
benediction pronounced, announced from the
pulpit OF the said Rev. Kirkpatrick, his then
beloved brother, that he. the said Rev. Kirk
patrick, would be pleased to sell them, on easy
terms. lots situate around and about the won
certully invigoratiug and health producing and
soon to be iar-famed springs of Ravenna Park
So far Us our knowledge goes this 10 the first
time the sacred desk was ever used a means
10 boom real estate. 1t Is true the Jews at one
time brought disgrace upon themselves and the
temple by making nn auction room OF 1t, but
Jesus went into the temple and began to cast
out them that bought and sold in the temple
my house shall be called of all nations
the house of prayer, but We have made il q den
OF thieves" Mark xi:15-l7
The facts are briefly that Kirkpatrick claimed
aud was paid % per cent on some and 20 per
cent. on other sales which afterward fell
through, and Beck sought and, by the referees
decision, will recover the overpsid commits
eiOns