Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1920, Page 3

Cayugn'county, N. Y., the grandhther of William P. Cowan, Thelr claim was established by a marriage ‘license, ‘census reports,. dld THE BEMIDJI SPOQNER WOMAN BURIED, | Spooner, ‘March 27—-Funeral sers vices were he.d here Thursday morn- DAILY PIONEER and oniJan. 10, 19168, she was mar- ried to George W. Vail. Later the family ‘moved onto a}}: homestead near Roosevelt: and ‘dur- ing the past two winters have made tintypes, and testimony. One Of thelyng iy Wijliams" morgue; Rev. Mr. She' 18 twing saw Mr, Cowan: when he was three yedrs old, Another Saxton said '| he was born in'the Cowan home. But| | Forgatten Poor Cousing Share in Estate of wealth_y Mlunmne un N0 WL Lives Have Mn Largely Filled With Hurd:hlpu—uunt for i Hclrl 1s_ Difficult. Wheaton; - IIL-—' Satisfled smlles‘ read over nine faces in the corridors ‘the red courthouse here recently, for ne persons, whose~'lives had" been ] y - filled “with * hardships; knew thiat’ within a few ‘weeks' they would » rich. Rich is the only applicable |- word—wéalth to these’people’ lud been | “spothing but'a dream. ; Judge S.'L. Rathje of the DuPage conniy court had_ just indicated 'that “five.of . the nine were legal heirs to the' £$8,000,000 estate of Willlam P, Cowan, former president of the Standard Ofl «company of Indiarw, who died at his , "Wheaton country home in the summeér .A918,. .The. other..four were hus- " ibands nnd ‘wives_of the heirs, i Nine to_Share. $2,500,000. With the e’stabllllmgent ot heh‘sl;lp_ /by the five relatives. of the wefithy oil an the total. number:of hetrs Who N receive '3 share of the estdte is eftses. have' been - de- iattomeys. the. es- sz.uoooo - | take further than that they had no persor- al recollection of their wealthy rela- °| tive: . Views on Liquor. ‘Walter and William ‘Saxton are In- .| terested in. nirplanes, but they don't | belleve they ‘will spend much of thelr fortune on the aireraft. “You can, get a drink of red eye or an afrplane ride for $25” said Wal- ter.” “L'helieve the alrplane ride would be the best. You can get the same Imultz from either, one: They'll both kill you.” ‘Walter and Mr. Hart have been sex- tons in different cemeterles ever llnee *'| they ‘can remember. “We been buryin’ em fast as they’d die,” said’ Mr. Hart. “But I récken we'll retire now.. Maybe not though.” Mrs. Colby isn’t-sure what she'll do with her Jnoney. Neither s Mrs, Charles Saxton sure what she will do | with her husband’s, but Biste, Mich, lu going to haye some thrills, she'said. “I guess we could all go in' the mov- ‘ing’ picture. buriness,” said Mrs. Caro- line Hart. (She doesn’t like - to be called Carrie.) “But maybe we'll' all retire now.” ' “Pretty hard to quit work,” said Willlam Saxton, “we've. been working 80 long. Gee, 'm kinda glad we heard about:- it, though. No, 1 ain't: got -np daughters for any one to marry.” \ M8, _Chnrles Saxton- said. she had twe'daughters, but thqught they could re: of themselves. Meantime 11 lawyers, who have been/n the litigation, were conferring 'In the 'judge’s chambers on. a tomb- stone to be erected over Mr. wnn'n grave. “I hope them' lawyers leaves ns some; <of. tle money,” said Wllter. '"nos SEEKS AID. FOR mrma is benefaction. But two ever saw m.’ They. look upon thell"lnbeflunée s some vague.dream of paradise. The : heirs. wllo ssmbllshed their' William: Snxton, seventytwo years .old; Eagle, Mich. Walter Saxton, seventy-two' years “-01d, Waucausta, Mich. N Charles- Saxton, sixty-eight years Flsie; Mich. irs. Caroline. Saxtun Hart, fifty- t years dld; Grand Ledge, Mich. L Mrs. 7. Colby;-forty-four' years ow, Cadillac, Mich. i “AWilliam~ an@ Walter: snmm are,; twins, Willian® {8 married and his : vme was.in’ Wheaton ‘with him. Mrs. y and Mrs. Hart' hm! their hus- »o'l he other heirs: whq have emb- hed sufficient ‘evidencé”'of relagion- s slflp to:Mr. Cowan to win an indica- on of equity from Judge Rathje are: Jndm;help'. nlnety yenrs old, De- Z Stlllwell. ‘0l Gloversvllle, N. Y. ‘Wiiliam . @.~ Stillyell, seventy-two :years old; Springfield, Mass. < Heirs ‘at law of Mrs. Helen Shad- Dolt, Plymoufln. N. Y., who was ninety- ii five, years old when she died a few ~weeks ago. Al of the heirs are cousins—first, wecond, or third. ' No nearer kin could be found by Alfred 0 Hoy, public ad- mlnlstrator of DuPage county. The ‘day’s hearing before Judge i RathJe did. not close the case.’ A few ¥ depositions, must be taken, a ore ‘weeks' must elapse before ‘But:the seventy yenrs few thé Jurist ‘can enter a:decree. Saxtou ‘boys are happy. - ~When in ‘1918 it “was learned that | Mr. Cowan, 'a successful business man .. apdrone of the.rich -residents of thé “Chicago Golf club colony at" Wheaton, d - diéd-“end left” no will, Wheaton -wondered. . ‘Then -it was announced " ‘that there were no heirs inthis state: My, Cowan’s death had preceded her husband’s, and there were 10 children and no_brothers’or sisters. blic: Administrator -Hoy took: m: g iate charge:of the estate and ap- - pointed Charles W, thlev and George - “Thoma his attorneys. ' Mr. Hadley is s;ltes attorney of , DuPage county aid has a weakness for flaring’ tles. Nine attorneys presented him with a ‘mew:one-in- court. - For more than a yenr the only reln- tlves Mr. Hoy could locate were the boys, ; Judm Phelps. md dt, nths ago’one of the Snx- 'dlter; read a mnewspaper amcle which, referred to- Mr. Cowan’s wmhu in Vain to '‘Obtain Help’ m Mistress Who Dies Sud- v ' dcnly. | Los Angeles: —Doughboy, a pedigreed ,bulldog; owned by T. C. Stevens of the 'bond: firm of Stevens, Page & Sterling, was . credited, with. an almost human nttempt to summon help ‘when ‘Mrs. Stevens’ aunt, Mrs. C. F. Endly, died suddenl§ at San Diego. The dog, a thoroughbred in which the -owner takes congiderable pride, was left fh Mrs. Endlys care by llrs. Stevens. During | the "night Mr. Endly was | awakened by Doughboy. The dog was whining" and moaning with such. their home in this village. also survived by sisters lving at St. Sikes, pastor of the Congregational .Tonhph Mo., and Baker Clty. Oregon, church, - ofticiating, for Mrs. Agnes Mary Vail, wife of George Vail, who died Monday evening, aged 43. She was twice married, her first husband helng George ' Saxton, by whom ' she was the mother of the following chil- dren: -George Saxton at'Camp Grant, 111, Fred Sexton of Crookston, Mrs. Agneo Burke of Big Fork and Miss borse 18. out-of-date. What you want Lily of ‘this village. 'Her first hus-|te 100k out for is the man-in the au- band died at Bemldjl slx years ago M’-" gt | My 80-a farm, known as the "Bellevnew Stock Farm,” seven miles southwest of ‘Béemidjii am the Lake George road. About fifty acres under cultivation, 25 acres fall plowed, 5 acres fall rye, one acre Rosen rye, 7 acres clover, all under high state of cultivation. 4 Call, wire, or see DR. J. M. McCLURE, Bemldjl, an ' Tho Modcm Figure,: *“Do you think this eountry’s xnllt- leal affairs will ‘ever bring forward the traditional ‘man on horseback'?” . ¥No,” answered Mr! Chuggins. ‘“The Why talk of cleanllness and, hyglene, and -then raise “'dust, microbes, blisters and’ fuss with a broom? \ - The broom s as obsolete as; ca.ndles, the Washtub and rub board ‘ Yes, we know—here and' there is 2 woman still usmg ‘thé broom. Saw a. dear old lady wearmg* hoops t'other day, too. Once we slept in'a candle-lightéd houae But—this is 1920. And you aré you. ' _ Come in and get your cleaner. A small payment down, ‘and the cleaner follows you home. ~Pay the balance later. Y bCo'mmen_ce today tojelean the electric way. MINNESBTA ElEGTRIG G LIGHT & POWER COMPANY Phone 26 Elks Bmldmg slstency ‘that Mr. Endly. fearing his} .. ould: be disturbed, went to the dodr nd- calling sottli to the dog| finally induced him :to go _into the|: other 'room, . Doughboy exhibited a|' strange restlessness, resisting. all et- forts. to quiet him.. The man was puz-|: zled.; Only. after a consldernble time | did He induce Doughboy to Me down. Then' Mr. Endly went: to sleep. ! In the morning he found his wife's lifeles body. ' Doctors were imme- dlately» called. © They. pronounced . ita case of heart falure and declared that ‘Mrs. Endly hag: beexl dead several, hours; ' OIL OUTPUT 366,255,611 BBLS. Production ‘for 1910 Shows Inemu of 24,000,000 ‘Barrels Over flm of; 1918, Oil City, Pa —Oll productlon in the United States during 1919 was 366 255,611 barrels, an .increase of more than 24,000,000 barrels over;the previ- ous year, according to the* ‘annual Te- view of the.’ Oil Clty Derrick, mde publie recently. The figures are based on plpe llne receipts, reported monthly, estimates of pipe lfhes not reported, and esti- mates of tank car shipments from flelds where no - regular . pipe Ilne service existed. The 1919 report is a new high rec- ord in the annual petroleum output of’ the United States, according to the re- view. Flelds which showed:gains were North Carolina, ‘Texas, North: Louisi- ana, Gulf Coast, Kentucky, Wyoml.ng and the Lima districts, Losses were recorded for Kansas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southeastern Ohlo. g Fishing With Axes. Edwardsville, ' II. = Fishing’ with axes is & “sport” in Ilinois now. 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