Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-20
KELLY QUITS UNION PACIFIC
General Solicitor Of Overland Resigns to
Live in Cali srnia.
is SUCCESSOR NOT YET NAMED
After Seventeen Years Service In
Legal Department of Company
He Retires TO Rest aud
Recreation.

William r. Kelly will resign as general
| solicitor for the Union Pacific December 81
and leave for his California home soon
after
John ~ Baldwin, general attorney Of the
Union Pacific Railroad company. was asked
by a reporter for The Bee Tuesday morning
what, II anything, there was in a rumor
relative to the resignation of Mr.. Kelly as
general solicitor of the company. Mr..
Baldwin said:
Mr.. Kelly has resigned as general solici-
| tor, to take effect January /. 1896 Because
OF Mr.. Kellys desire to avoid the winter
weather and to secure the benefit OF
warmer climate he has arranged to make
his future home in southern California. He
has withdrawn entirely from railroad work
or business and expects to spend the inn
mediate future I'm rest and recreation"
( rs there anything in the rumor that Mr..
Kelly intends to enter into relations with
any othet railroad company or take up any
| other railroad work?' was asked Mr. Bald
win.
No SIR replied Mr.. Baldwin, Il am au-
| thorized to state positively that Mr.. Kelly
= does not intend to have any relations with
any railroad work of any kind whatever in
the future
| No Line on Successor.
| The next question asked was who will
be Mr.. Kelly's SUCCESSOR
That question received no answer. The
answer to 1t must come from New York
and New York has not yet been heard from.
| At the Union Pacific headquarters no one
! will even breach it's discussion
Mr.. Baldwin is next in line of succession
to Judge Kelly and aside from purely state
affairs, has been really aggressive and
prominent figure in many big suits in which
his company has been interested for three
| years at least. The natural inference is
that he will be appointed to the position
which Judge Kelly leaves. But neither Mr..
! Baldwin or any OF his associates would per-
init discussion of this matter in his
presence.
Judge Kellys action comes as no special
| surprise to few of his most intimate
friends for they have known that for the
last three years he has been revolving In
his mind the thought OF resigning and re-
firing, for a time at least, from active
business. Some years ago he bought a
home in Los Angeles and placed it i'm
charge of his venerable mother, intending
some day to make it his own place of resi-
dence. Now he goes to fulfil that iuten-
ton. He and Mrs. Kelly and their daugh-
ter, Mrs. r.. NJ. WEIGH, are the only mem
hers of the family. Judge and Mrs. Kelly
have their home at 2226 Howard street. 1t
is possible Mr.. and Mrs. Welch will take
charge of the Omaha residence.
Long Service with Railroad.
Judge Kelly has been connected with the
legal department of the Union Pacific since
1850. At that time he became trial lawyer
for the company at Lincoln. In this ca
pacity he remained until 1888, when he
came to Omaha and became general at
torney for Nebraska. He held this position
until 1890 when, In addition to it, he was
made assistant general solicitor with John
NJ. Thurston, general solicitor. When Mr.
Thurston went to the United States senate
in 1896 Judge Kelly was advanced TO the po-
sition he now leaves. ~
Mr. Kelly is about "a years OF age. He
came to Nebraska in early period. He
has been prominent in legal affairs of this
state for a long time and has taken his
place with the big legal luniinaries of the
west. He likewise has always been popu'
lar member OF the bar, being possessed OF
n genial disposition.
Years OF constant toll in his chosen pro.
fession and at highly remunerative incomes
have not failed to leave Judge Kelly gener.
ously supplied with this worlds goods. He
has made some profitable investments and
is rated being in quite comfortable cir
: | cumstances.