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    "ocrText": "-10-\nlocated. The Railway company had offices just on the right of the\ndoorway, and naturally every man who came to Pattison's office to exe-\ncute a pension application-Pattison at that time did the work of M.\nGarrett, O.E.Howe, King &c King and Chas. H. Oakwood-was approached by\nthe O.R. & N. people, and usually ticketed over \"the northern route* so:\nthat the O.R. & N. people got about 75% of the business, where-as, ac-\ncording to their mileage, they were entitled to about 8% This raised\na storm of protest from the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe people, and\nis the matter referred to by the Hon. Commissioner as the \"agent who\nhas offices in the office of the railway company.\" On March lst the\nO.R. & N. offices were consolidated with the U. P. offices at No. 1,\nMontgomery Strett, so that the above conditions do not exist at this\ntime.\nMr. Pattison regularly employs Mr. E.S.Powers as a solicitor.\nHe also employed Mr. W.W.Hutchinson, but Hutchinson is now working for\na clothing house, although he succeeds in bringing in an occasional\ncase to Pattison.\nMr. Pattison, has freely invited inspection of his office and\nmethods, and I have followed him closer perhaps than the others, be-\ncause I thought he was interested in the firm and doing his own notar-\nial work. I have found matters correct with him, although my colleague,\nMr. Hursh, does not agree with me in this rating, and as he has taken\ntestinony, especially upon the character of Mr. Pattison, I desire that\nhis report of Pattison's character be accepted.\nBoth Powers and Hutchinson are ex-soldiers, and while theywill\nwork hard just as the others do to securo a case, I have heard nothing\nagainst their character. They are not drunkards nor have they ever\nbeen arrested for any crime. In fact the majority of the men who are\nworking for the attorneys here, have to remain well drosses, courteous\nand genteel, at least to their clients, or olse they carnot do any\nbusiness. They often have tilts among themselves, but that usually\noccurs in some secluded place where there are no witnesses. Sometimes"
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