The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-01
WALKERS SON
IS APPOINTED
He is Made Special Administra-
tor Pending Issuance Of
Letters Testamentary.
MRS. SARAH A. PAUL LOSES
MOTION IN FEDERAL COURT
Judge Marshall Refuses to Cite
Defendants, but Judge
Ritchie Cites Them.

Charging that Mrs. Althea Walker,
Margaret Smoot Walker and Clarence
Walker have wronsfully taken posses
sion Of securities worth $4,000 belonging
TO the estate OF David r. Walker, an ap-
plication was made Monday afternoon by
David f, Walker, Jr., asking the district
court to appoint him special adnlinistra-
tor of tho estate. David F. Walker. Jr.,
is son OF decedent by his first wife,
Mrs. Sarah A. Paul, who is suing Mrs
Althea Walker to break the VIII OF "
f. Walker Is a sister To David +; Walker,
Jr. The will left practically all OF the
sl,50o.ooo Walker estate 70 MIS-. altnea
Walker. Margaret Walker Srnoot and
Clarence Walker.
The applica tion asks that petitioner be
appointed special administrator pending
the appointment of an administrator or
Issuing letters tcstamcntary on the es-
tate.
The application was heard by District
Judge Ritche and Walker was named
special administrators under bond OF
$4,000.
Defendants Are Cited.
Walker as special administrator then
procured an order from Judge llitchie
citing Mrs, Walker and Margaret walker
Smoot and Clarence Walker TO appear In
court at 10 o'clock Friday morning and
submit TO an examination as TO the prop
erty belonging to the estate they are al
legged TO have seized with the view OF
spirlting II out OF the state and convert
ing II to their own use.
The suit by Mrs. Paul 10 break the
will has been removed from the district
to the United States circuit court for the
reason that most of the property OF the
estate is in California, involving fcderal
jurisdiction. but all the property covered
In the application for special admin
Istrator is in this state. Under his ap-
pointment rs special administrator Walk
er has power to collect and take chargs
Of all the property in Utah,
Walker in his application, recites MS
fathers death here September II, this
year, leaving a widow. Athea walker,
and Margaret Walker Smoot, Clarence
Walker, Sarah a Paul H. W. Walker,
Maud L. Walker, Stella w. Ellis and the
petitioner. all children, aud Nina Rog-
crs Daynes Dracia Rogers and Dorothy
Rogers, grandchildren by dead daugh-
ter, Nina Walker Rogers,
Father Left Will.
His father left n will. Walker says,
but this instrument hasn't been admit
ted to probate There Is a delay in the
I is his belief that the widow doesn't in
tend to apply for letters testementary
or of administration In this state nor
offer the Will for probate here.
Among the property left In this state
is an undivided interest In the Prince
OF Wales group of lode mining claims
In tho Big Cottonwood district, this coun-
ty and other realty and credit in cash
payable on check with Walker Brothers.
bankers 10 the extent of $500, 900, sccuri-
tics worth $4,000, and other valuable pa
pers. Many OF these papers belonging to
the estate tend to show the proper right
and title 10 the property and the WIDOW
has these in her possession, Walker ayers.
and. as he believes, intends TO take them
ont OF the state with her. A vast amount
OF negotiable securities which Mrs, Walk
er refuses TO turn over to the estate is
among these papers, Walker says