The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-19

for filing an answer to the grave charges
made by the plaintiffs win expire, aud
within month religious circles will be
deeply stirred by the expose the trial as
sures.
The fight at law is over a mine in Placer
County variously valued at S250,OOO to
100000, but not so much over the prop
eTty itself as the manner in which 1t was
lost to its original owners and how pos
session was secured by religious leaders
without paying for it There are charges
of fraud and confidence operations, OBJ
tanning of uncomfortable advantages over
the owners and deceitfully and falsely
violating conditions of certain contracts.
The title of the suit is Thomas Z. Ster-
rett, John w. Sterrett and Samuel T.
Sterrett VS.. George S. Montgomery, A. W.
bennett, Charles \. Crittenton, John W.
Martin, Philip Kyle, Carrie Judd Mont
gomery and Theodore Winters.
So well known are most of these defend
ants through their conspicuous positions
before the public they hardly need an in
PRODUCTION. Four of them are -millionaires,
and with only one exception all are lead
ing salvationsts or evangelists.
George 5. Montgomery is the millionaire
salvationist whose home is at Beulah, in
the Alameda foothills, where he owns con-
siderable land. A few years ago he became
an ardent Salvation soldier, DOMINIC the
uniform of a private and taking part in
every class of service held here by the
army. He donated a strip of land at Beu-
lab TO the Salvation Army, and upon it
stands the Rescue Home. an institution
for unfortunate women. lie is brother Of
Charles Montgomery, the hotel man and
Peoples Home Bank director. Mrs. Car
RE Judd Montgomery is his wife. who
came into prominence as a faith-healer.
Subsequently she entered the Salvation
ranks with her husband, and ever since
their names are associated with every spe-
cial service Of the army in San Francisco
and Oakland.
A. w. bennett is the widely known res
tsurant man who runs eatDg-houses from
II o'clock Sunday night to II O'Clock Sat
urday night In New York, Brooklyn, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore. Boston and San Fran
cisco-fOurteen places in all. And yet he
finds time TO give an extraordinary atten-
lion to religion. Every morning and night
his employees meet for prayers in rooms
off the restaurants. Scriptura texts, such
as dc sure your SIN Will una you CUT,
decorate the walls
His restaurants never open on Sundays al
any time in the twenty-four hours of the
Sabbath. Charles n. Crittenton is the
millionaire evangelist who lives in the
Palace Hotel. Philip Kyle will be remem-
bered as Major Kyle, the last Salvation
Army leader in this city, who was
called to London a short time since.
Kyle. it seems, was ordered to a country
he did not like, so he threw up the sponge
and returned as a high private TO Cali
fornia. John w. Martin is an officer in
the Salvation ranks. Theodore Winters.
who was made a defendant in the suit
through some legal technicaity, is the
celebrated horseman of Nevada who bred
and owned more famous horses than any
other NJ an in America.
Among old miners and pioneers of Cali
fornia and Nevada the Sterretts are as we'll
known as any of the men who made the
Comstock. The Sterretts are old men now.