Show A arun ell B james phelan a eccentric rei itric real estate san man NEW april 1 surrogate R ransom ancoin baa has admitted to probate the will of the late jamea james phelan one of the most active leal jeal estate speculators that ever over invented money in or aroun around d this city phelan was as a very berie benevolent v oli nt man man and e eccentric lie ile had a habit when wa walking in the country and meeting w with ith a funeral of at once finding out where the body was wag to be buried the name and other data and ordering er in a ard marble monument worth a h hundred adga red ors or a thousand dollars to be er erected over the grave it was of no earthly con conse consequence nonce to mr phelan whether he knew n ew any of 0 the people whose demor memory p he e sou sought ht to perpetuate perpetual 5 and a U d during cluing ti his s eladin slay in a place be he 8 saw a V to it that the most humble peasant who had bad the misfortune to die was as suitably remembered lie was equally lavish in making pr to the living A keeper of the ion at which phelan phola n s testified that phelan WAS continually cons cias ti aking presents to everyone |