The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 4

IRSON PLOT IN FRISCO 500,000 Loss Is Revealed; Cities Along the Coast Are Warned to Watch BAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—Cities the Pacific coast were being today aguinst a widespread ition of three big Incendi- fires in this city has uncovered B plot of destruction and sabotage BM factories along this coast, accord to Fred H. of the fire prevention bureau. FIRE DESTROYS ESHED GRAIN Ff Explosion Wrecks Separator ad Tank ALLA WALLA, July 30.—Fire, by a smut explosion on the Of Shaw & Walters, two miles of Prescott, was prevented from. by volunteer fire fighters @ separator, a tank wagon, ek and 75 bushels of thresh- had been destroyed, it was | discouraged with the class of fm laborers applying for jobs here bd a suspicion is sald to be growing iat many are 1. W. W. One farmer Be had to hire three crews, and is just beginning. REE ALLISON » FROM. PRISON ious Objector TO BUILD HERE BAN FRANCISCO, July 30—Six ships of the Atlantic fleet San Francisco harbor yes-| bringing 1,500 midshipmen) i Annapolis military academy | Who are on a summer training Michigan and the supply ship Claussen, superin- | | Mn $3,000,000 ESTATE IS SOUGHT BY 22 HEIRS; COURT FIGHT BITTER WHEATON, Ill, July %0—The great American family drama, with features highly melodramatic, ts be ing unfolded in a courtroom here. Three millions dollars ts the stake Twenty-two persons, scattered all over the country, are fighting for It. Ancient scandals, family quarrels of 60 years ago, a millionaire’s secret love affair, a son—half-Indian; long Jost cousins and uncles, a missing man captured by the Germans, a for tune won in Australia’s gold fields and dissipated in globe wanderings the Cowan will*case brivties with all these spectacular incidents and ad ventures, |MASS OF EVIDENCE | READS LIKE NOVEL Tt will take three weeks, probably, to present the mass of evidence, read ing Mke a dime novel, in the four appeal hearings just opened in Du page county appellate court. Three groups of claimants are con testing the decision last April of Probate Judge Rathje in adjudging nine cousins as lawful heirs of the estate of William P. Cowan, million jaire president of the Standard Co. of Indiana, who died tn 1918 Tho state administrator's assessed valuation of the estate was $1,556,044, Lawyers say the actual value ts twice that sum. First of the surprises in the new hearing of the case came when At torney Ralph Peck disclosed that proof of mistaken identity has placed seven more persons in line for the estate, They are children of John Cowan, SS-year-old uncle of the dead mil Uonatre. OLD MAN TRACED TO WEST 18 WRONG UNCLE Peck had traced the old man to jthe West. But he waa the wrong jone. -The real uncle had died five years ago in St. Louis, Now these seven children, Peck argues, are in line for nearly $400,000 each dene Cowan William, St. Leute. Mra, Mary Cowan McAdams, Quincy, m. Mre. fare Cowan Rrainerd, Cleveland (wife of F. J. Rreatnerd). Peter Cowan, St. Leute. Mre, Elisabeth Cowan Teigrever, ®t. | beat ‘Ming Catharine B. Gowns, Chicage, last heard of ander on ascamed name ia © German ramp separate appeal is being prose by David Henry Cowan, of Canal Winchester, ©., who claims to be @ cousin of the deceased. Another appeal is by William Cow. an Lowery, a half-breed 1 who claims to be the only son and heir of the millionaire. Lowery lives on a farm near Neeleyville, Mo. At torney Paul Kuhn, representing Lowery, has revealed an alleged ro mance of the oil magnate more than William Cowan, missing sailer, ed COUSINS FIGHT CASE; RUMOR OF SECRET WILL ‘These cousins of Cowan, adjudged Fightful heirs, are fighting the ap- is rumored that everybody In wrong jin believing the off millionaire left |no will, ‘The spectacular denouement of secret will is a possibility during the hearing Aside from lawyers’ fees, nearly | $200,000 has already been subtracted | from the estate at stake, Publle Ad |ministrator Alfred C, Hoy got a foe | of $108,000 and his attorneys, Charles W. Hadley and George W. Thoma, each got a feo of $54,000, plus ex penses for all, The state has col lected an inheritance tax of $44,483. CABARET GIRL KILLED IN GAR Wanted to Die After Death of Husband CHICAGO, July 30,—Jesnte Ray Brown, cabaret singer, who was ex | onerated three months ago for killing | her husband, Frank Brown, assistant business agent for the Motion Picture Operators’ union, sald then that she wanted to die, She was fatally crushed yesterday when the aufomobdile in which she was riding with two men collided with @ “safety island.” She died as she was lifted from the wreckage. | Robert J. Broach, automobile ales. man, was instantly killed, and John Healy, overseas veteran, police cap- tain, was injured. CENSUS BUREAU RETURNS LISTED Missoula Shows Slight De- crease Since 1910 WASHINGTON, July 30.—The census bureau today announced the fillowing 1920 population results: Minsoula, Mont., 12,668; decrease since 1910, 201, or 1.6 per cent, Eldorado county, California, 6,426. Glenn county, California, 11,853. fan Benito county, California, 8,995. San Luis Obispo county, Califor. Bia, 21.898, Sixkiyou county, California, 18,545. Yolo county, California, 17,105. Increases since 1910: Glenn coun ty, 4.681, or 66.3; San Benito, San Luis Oblepo, 2,610, Yolo county, 3.179, or 23.8. Decreases: Eldorado county, 1,066, or 14.3; Siski you county, 256, or 1.4. Ore, by warde: Ward 1, 2, 4496; Ward 3, 3,482; ‘Ttal, 1 300 Stenographers The United States civil service commission has advised that 300 stenographers are needed immediate ly in Washington, D. C., for perma Mes. | nent positions. The entrance salary Pheipe, Detroit. To complicate matters further, it im $1,200 per year, plus a bonus of $20 per month tf services are satisfac tory. 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Pettibone, undertaker’s aanint ant, waa sentenced to life imprison ment yesterday for the polsoning of his wife in Bennington, on April 6. After being removed from the courtroom, the prisoner wag allowed to seo Mins Helen I. Guilow, the trained trurse, who testified to int macy with him and infatuation for whom ts sald te have furnished the motive for the murder British-French Oil Pact Probed WASHINGTON, July 30, —~ The United States government is “inves tiguting carefully” the situation cre- ated by &n agreement entered imo between Great Britain and France by the distribution of of! supplies in va: rious parts of the world, it was said today, Why carry a gun when you go hunting for work? We Myer, former secretary to the | THE SEATTLE STAR _ SHERIFF SLAIN IN BANDIT FIGHT Deputy Wounded and Two Robbers Shot JACKSON, Mich, July 90—In a gun fight, following the robbery of the Farmer's State bank, Grass Lake. yesterday, Sheriff Harry Worden was killed, a deputy was wounded and two of the alleged bandits shot Six men, five of them sald to mem bers of the gang, were captured: in |@ marsh after the fight. The officers recovered approximately $10,000 in bonds and currency Better a dozen freckles on your face than one on your character. Lift An P Drop aching corn stops y you ft it re—Truly! ruggist sells a tiny bottle Beems Mu Freezone ot stantly th then sho with fin Your = Httle corn, in. burting, right off DRINK OF LYE FATAL TO BABE Mother Is Injured in Rush to Hospital WENATCHEH, July 90.—A phynt rived too late to wave the life of Janet Purcell, 18-month-old daugh |ter of W. 1S. 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