Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 20, 1920, Page 3

MAGIC OF LAW PUTS MILLIONS ! IN9 POCKETS Forgotten Poor Cousing Share in Estate of Wealthy 0il Man. 2 MILLIONARE LEFT N0 WILL Wealth Comes to Aged People Whose Lives Have Beén Largely Filled . " With Hardships—Hunt 'for Heirs Is Difficult. i Wheaton, Tl — Satisfled smiles spread over nine faces in the corridors of the red courthouse here recently; for pine persons, whose lives had been that within a few weeks they would be rich. Rich is”the only appllcable word—wealth to these people had been nothing but a dream. ‘Judge S. L. Rathje of the DuPage { Ccounty court had just indicated that ‘five of the nine were legal heirs tg the $3,000,000 estate of William P. Cowan, former president of the.Standard Oll ‘company of Indiana, who died at his | ‘Wheaton country homie in the summer of 1918, The other four were hus- bands and wives of the heirs, " Nine to Share $2,500,000. | With the establishment of heirship ¥ by the five relatives of the wealthy oil " ‘man. the total number of heirs who will receive a share of the estate is ‘nine. After expenses have been de- ducted, according, to attorneys, the es- tate will total more than $2,500,000. _Each of the nine heirs will receive ‘something like $200000 when the in- heritance taxes-are paid. - Three of the heirs are more than .'seventy years of age, one is ninety, "' the youngest is_forty-four years old. None of them remember personally the ‘man ‘whose death brought them this benefaction. But two ever saw him. ‘They look upon their inheritance -’ a8 some vague dream of paradise. ’ ./ The heirs, who established their claims are: : William Saxton, seventy-two years * ‘old, Eagle, Mich. Walter Saxton, seventy-two years old, Waucausta, Mich, Charles - Saxton, - sixty-eight years ' ‘old, Elsie, Mich. . o Mrs. Caroline: Saxton Hart, ' fifty- eight years old, Grand Ledge, Mich. ‘Mrs. R. B. Colby, forty-four yea! 8d | Walter . Saxton are( ; ed- and his ‘tion of equity from Judge Rathje a1 . /Judson Phelps, ninety years old, Henry B. Stillwell, seventy ~years old, Gloversville, N, Y. . ) . Willlam 'G. " Stillwéll, - seventy-two ' years old, Springfleld,”"Mass. . ] Helrs at law of Mrs. Helen Shad- ‘béit, Plymouth, N. Y., who was ninety- five yéars old when she died a few ‘weeks ago. : All of the heirs are cousins—first. gecond, or third. No nearer kin could be'found by Alfred C. Hoy; public ad- mipistrator ‘of DuPage county. . .:The -day’s hearing before . Judge “‘Rathje did not close the case. A few _ore depositions. must be taken, a ‘few ‘miore 'weeks; Tnust elapse before | i'the fiirist’ can’enter a'decree. But the Saxton boys are happy. T Whenin 1918 it was learned. that 'Mr. Cowan, a successful business man ‘and one of the rich residents of the, ‘Chicago .Golf ¢lub colony at Wheaton, ‘had dled ‘<nd left no will, Wheaton ! ‘wondered. . Then it was announced /that there"were no heirs in this stnte.] ‘Mrs. Cowan’s death had preceded heri husband's, and: there were no children and no brothers or sisters. ¢ Public Administrator Hoy took im- i ‘mediate charge of the estate and ap- ‘pointed Charles W. Hadley and George !Thoma his attorneys. "Btate’s- attorney of DuPage 'county ;and has a weakness for flaring tes. | Nine ‘attorneys' presented him with a, new one in’court. : For niore than a year the only rela- itives Mr. Hoy could locate were theid 'Stillwell boys, Judson Phelps,’ “Mrs. Shadbeldt, el . A few months ago one of thé:Sax- ‘ton boys, Walter, read a newspaper “article which referred to Mr. Cowan’s® ‘death:and his estate. A few days} “later, Saxton_claim was®entered. . ! The ‘8axtdns clnimed to be the chil- fdren of two daughters of Peter Cowan, Ca; county, N. Y.,-the- “of Willlam P.’Cowan. 3 and Their claim was established .by-a}. ‘marriage license, census reports, old ‘Yintypes, and testimony. - One of ;the: giity. These policewomen did such fine/ itwihs saw Mr. Cowan when _he_was “three years old. , Anoth Hdl ‘he was bo) s born in the Cowan home, ~But further’than’ that they had no person- ‘al recollection of their wealthy rela- tive, % ,Views on Liquor. . Walter and Willlam Saxton are in- “terested in: airplanes, but they don’t beliéve' they will spend much of their fortune_on the aircraft. “You can get a drink of red eye or an airplane ride for $25” said Wal- argely filled with- hardships, knew |- be the-best. You can get the same ' fhan 24,000,000 barrels'over thé previ- results from either one. PLEASURE SEEKERS ONCE s thronged with pleasure seekers. They'll both ous year; according to the annual re- kill you.” "/ -|view of the Oil City Derrick, made Walter and Mr. Hart have been sex- | public recently. tons in different cemeteries ever since ; The figures are based on pipe line they can remember. Irecelpts, reported’ monthly, estimates MORE THRONG NICE Nice, the beautiful resort on France’s Mediterranean coast, has resumed, its status as a i;ay sociel center and “We been buryin’ ’em fast as they'd die,”, said Mr.- Hart. we'll retire now. Maybe not though.” of pipe lines not reported, and esti- “But I reckon | mates of tank car shipments from lflelds where no 'regular pipe line Mrs. Colby isn’t sure what she'll do | gepvice existed. with her imoney. - Neither is Mrs. The 1919 report is a new high rec- Charles Saxton sure what she will do | ord in the annual petroleum output of with her husband'’s, but Elsie, Mich,, ' the United States, according to the re- is going to have some thrills, she sald. | yiew, Flelds which showed gains were “Y guess we could all go in the mov- | North Carolina, Texas, North, Louisi- Mr. Hadley is . grandfather , ing picture business,” said Mrs. Caro- lne Hart. (She doesn’t like to be called Carrie) “But maybe we’ll all retire now.” “Pretty hard to quit work,” said ‘William Saxton, “we’'ve been working €0 long. Gee, I'm kinda glad we heard about it, though. No, I ain’t got no daughters for any-one to marry.” Mrs. Charles Saxton said she had two daughters, but thought they could take care of themselves. Meantime 11 lawyers, who. have been in the litigation, were conferring in the judge’s chambers on a tomb- stone to bé erected over Mr. Cowgn’s grave. “I hope them lawyers leaves us some of the money,” said Walter. DOG SEEKS AID FOR DYING Whines in Vain'to Obtain’ Help for Mistress Who Dies Sud- denly. * Los Angeles—Doughboy, a pedigreed -} bulidog; owned by, T.C: Stevens of the bond firm of Stevens, Page & Sterling, was credltofl wit 1 other room. Doughboy exhibited a orts-to quiet him. The man was puz- zled.' Only after a considerable time did he induce Doughboy to lie down. Then Mr. Endly went to sleep. In the morning he found his wife's Jifeless . body. = Doctors were imme- diately called, They pronounced it a case of heart fallure and declared that Mrs. Endly had been dead Yeveral hours, ' 2T 3 B 7 v’me ‘MOTOR COPS Some of the squad of London wom- en motorcycle police, starting off on work 'that the machines, which they run. themselves, were..given them so they might do greater work. OIL OUTPUT 366,255,611 BBLS. Production for 1919 Shows Increase of 24,000,000 Barrels Over That of 1918, Oll City, Pa—Oll production in the g the night Mr. Endly was awakened by Doughboy. The dog was whining nnd moaning with ‘such per- stency” that Mr. Endly fearing his wife would be disturbed, went to the door. and ‘calling’ softly to the ‘dog finally - induced him to go into -the trange restlessness, resisting all ‘ef- ana, Gulf Coast, Kentucky, Wyoming and the Lima districts. Losses were recorded for Kansas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southeastern Ohio. Fishing With Axes. JUST LEAVE IT TO TERRY | Harvard ‘Authorities and Students Rely on Memory of Colored Human Encyclopedia. No one knows how he does it. He doesn't know himself. Yet Terry never forgets a face or a name. He never took a memdPy course. - He ‘never did any special mental gymnastics to de- velop his memory. He has no theories on the assoclation of ideas. He has no little tricks, such as remembering a man’s name s Carpenter because he is built like al t}i He glmply re- man who for; human encyclo] office at Harvar of the recorder's ollege. Every Har Edwardsville, Tl — Fishing With | y4rq man since 1900 knows Terry. The axes is a “sport” in Illinois now. the ponds and lakes around Ed: ville the fish come up close to the remarkable thing is that Terry kdows every one of them. More than 10,000 men have come and gone in Terry's frigid coating to get air. They may be | yme Terry remembers them all. seen through the clear ice. The “hunt- His extraordinary faculty for re- er” strikes the ice just above the fish, | ;,omperin; g names and places caused which is stunned by the.coneussion. A | yyq peing Installed in the position of hole is then chopped and the fish taken out. Numbers of fine catfish are ob- tained every day by this method. HEARD OWN BURIAL SERVICE Dying Millionaire Had What Might Be Called a “Rehearsal” in His When Mr. Parker Mason, a shrewd dying a few years ago he conceived the quaint idea of having a rehearsal. of ‘his. own funeral ‘service ‘in room. He called in: 2 rehearsed in his presence and that-of ‘his family and & number of his friends. The "clergyman préached>an eloquent and’'touching ‘sermion om ‘the virtues ‘and’ clisritiés of the dylbg man, and ‘the ‘chofr ‘sang appropriate hymns. At the conclusion of the service, which . and clisl the millionaire had followed with the closest interest ard attention, he warm- 1y complimented both clergyman and choir-on their performance, and after taker and made the necessary arrange- ments with him and had a¢personal in- terview with thq pall-bearers. He died ten hours: later, and was buried with the same service to which he had lis- tened when alive.—Montreal Herald. Where the Fault Lay. As the Irish police recruit strolled | along on' his first turn of night duty, loud yells of “Fire” rent the air. He bolted quickly to the spot, 'and found # house well ‘alight, with: a man half hanging out of an upstairs window. - “Help! Help!” he yelled. “t 1 jump, will you catch me?” “Sure, an’ Ol will!" replled the po- liceman readily. Edy So’the man jumped, only tq crash to the ground and lie there stunned. When, a few minutes; later, he recov- ered consciousness, he looked up at the constablé reproac!\tnu,. and mur- mured feebly: £y i “I thought you sald you could catch me?” &P ; “Begorrah!” teplled ‘the Irishman. “Ol. was_only waiting. for yez to bounce, an’ Of'd ‘have ‘had yez!"— : (el ete ‘mw.m:::m,umm L2 ] -Provide & uest for éxch four or five ES Y lh:- « but ‘allow £oF Ventilatien. s B beuse free from ‘mites. Kl and eat the hens.in the summer . end fall as they begin to meit and cease to lay. A s & O A cledh cellar, “two-thirds below United States during 1919 was 366 | ground surface, makes & good place ter. “T believe the airplane ride would 255611 barrels, an increase of MOTe |to ‘et the incubatas. #| generally. 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