The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-07-05

were 10th to give it up. Then he
brought suit to recover and about the
same time the breach of promise suit
was brought against him. Norris, as
plaintiff, carried his land suit through
all of the courts in the State and I'm
ally to the highest tribunal in the land,
the United States Supreme Court. He
was defendant in the love suit and the
woman got Judgment for large
amount for her wounded feelings while
old Sam got nothing. No record of the
settlement of his land suit was fled
in California until recently when, after
twenty three years, the State court was
notified the decision was for defend
ants. To pay the judgment of the
woman to whom, as young man, Nor
ris had made love, he was obliged to
mortgage his property to a local bank
ing house.
A Strange Man
IF Colonel Norris has been considered
eccentric, not to say peculiar, during
the passing years, there was a reason
and the records of the court Of Cali
fornia will furnish it. He did many
strange things in the management OF his
property in Kau. When Jones sold out
TO him, young Arthur Jones was con
sidered competent TO manage the place
and was employed by the colonel but
at the end of six months he was told
to move Charlie Macomber was the
next in line and he filed the place for
the same length of time only to be told
at the end that it was not right for
a man to stay too long in one place
Macomber took up a place in the neigh
I 4 -
of the old man. Changes were abrupt
and frequent until finally there was no
one left but a lone Chinese herder Go
look after the great property 1t Is in
| history that once he sent his men 0ut
to round up the cattle and brand the
| calves. They were put into corrals and
one morning the old man came down
| and ordered them turned loose as he
did NOT believe in keeping them locked
| up There has been little attention
paid TO the management during recent
| years and other ranches have profted
by the addition Of mavericks that have
strayed over to them.
A half-dozen times during the past
fifteen years the property has been
virtually sold but before the deeds
| could be passed the colonel, for one
reason or another, would balk at set.
Element. One time he agreed to sell
TO the late j. o. Carter but when il
came time for an inventory and trans
fer, something that was said led Nor
/ ris 10 believe that Carter was merely
fine representative Of someone else and
he put the question squarely to him.
"Are You buying this for Charlie
| CookeW asked Norris.
Mr. Carter happened TO be truthful
man and answered in the Affirmative.
"Then you don't get u for TN sen
morning Of mine 20 any damn mission
ary.n
There have been other and similar
incidents, all Of them apparently keep
Ing the fact In mind that Colonel Nor
ria WIS nm eeeeDtrie Individual To
the fraquenters Of Notes, Norris was
familiar object. OF medium height.
stopped with age, his long curly white
whlakora and hair always spiek and
span, Dee could DO seen for hours doly
Ing into the literature banked on the
table, Tho Beaver" was hls head
quarters whenever DO was 10 town daF,
ing the NE Of lielnFleh Nolie, and u
Nas often Fald thal an 0f BIZ property
would 30 70 kQlie's daughter az ker
fa' death