The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19
Ira James Hall Receives
Good News From His
Father.
Norman Jarman, Novelist and
Speculator, Remembers He
Has a Son.
Tie Millionaire Writes From England
Asking His Son to Join
Him.

Ira James Jarman, better known as Ira
James Hail, has received good news from
England
This good news, which is rich enough
to fill Christmas plum pudding, is moth
ing more nor less than letter from a
long-silent parent who at last finds time
and inclination to write his son to come
and visit him in his English home and
help him spend $50. COO, 600.
.Twenty-six millions, all well invested.
Sixteen millions in property comprising
nearly al the business portion of Salt
Lake City, and the other ten millions
/ representing mines and mills and landed
Aestates in old England.
n Twenty-odd years ago Norman William
I Jarman, young EngIshman of an ad-
venturous spirit, joined a band of coloniz-
ers that tablished themselves in Salt
Lake City.
Shortly after his arrival in the land of
the great prophet Young Jarman joined
the Mormon church and incidentally in
vested IN min5s and sanG lots. He mar
ried cOmely young woman, and the fruit
OF this union is young Jarman, familiarly
known as Ira Hall
Jarmans s marriage was not a happy
one, and when little Ira was but years
old Mrs. Jarpan was granted divorce on
the ground OF cruelty.
After his divorce Jarman took up the
cudgeIs against the esta blished Mormon
church and began a lecturing tour, in
which he bitterly assailed the creed of the
Latter.day Saints.
Then for nineteen years nothing was
heard OF the dissenter. Mrs. Jarman mar
Tled again, TO q man named Hall, and her
little son was reared and educated by the
devoted mother.
Young Jarman's life has not fallen in
particularly bright places. At the age of
II he began to labor TO assist support his
mother, and since then his lie has been
one OF unremittlng, ceaseless toll. For
several years the young man was a fire.
man on the Southern Pacific trains, and
later-What he considered a step in ad-
vance-porter with w. p. Fuller e. Co.
This position he occupied for three years,
and then came seven months of enforced
idleness. Young Jarman is now a packer
In the ma;l-Order department of the EN-
porum.
When the young man was seen yester-
day afternoon by CALL representative he
confirmed the report OF a father with
many millions, who offers him home
Il had not heard directly from my
father for nineteen years, said the young
man. 81 knew he was prosperous and in
England; that he had written several
novels, among them being one entitled
"A Night in He'll But I never read any
of them. Never had the time. Pva
worked since l was II years old, and am
80 now. Twenty-six million is a great
deal of money, and 1 suppose l am going
= 10 find life easy now.
Father is coming out here in January
and l am to return with him to England.
OF course l want my friends to know of
my good fortune, but 1 haven't any ready
cash yet and l owe quite bit of money.
was seven months out of work. and l am
afraid my creditors will trouble me.
have not decided what l shall do when l
get some of that money. All know is
l shall help mother"
And young Jarman Hall, with the pros
poets OF lnheriting $26 100000, is working
steadily from A. NJ. to 10 P. N. until
father comes"