St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-13
MAI. CAMPS WILL.
1t Is Said to Devise Half His Estate
to California Lady.

Yesterday the will of the late Maj.
George A. Camp was filed with the
clerk of the probate court. 1t is an in
terestlng document, and contains sur
prise for those who thought they
knew the lumberman best. The
petition for the admission of
the will to probate recited
that the estate of the deceased amounted
TO $3.50, 900, of which $4,000 was in per-
s0nal property. The other 100000 of
real property was classified as follows:
Improved city property, S200,000; unim-
proved city property. 100000; farm
property, $4,000; wild proper
ty, $4,000. The benefciaries of
the will are named as Mrs. Lucy
May Won Wedelstaedt, twenty-five
years old, only daughter OF Maj. Camp:
years old, and-this is the surprise
Mrs. Jessie ID. Carr-SeaIe, of Salinas
City, Cal, who is fOrty-One years old.
John NJ. Miller. the well known attor-
ney. who has recently returned from
California to live in Minneapolis again,
is named as the executor of the will.
That was all. There was no intlmi-
dation in the petition as to the amount
of money left to Mrs. Scale and as the
will was carefully locked up and access
to it denied to all but the parties d.
rectly interested, that cannot he stated.
The following dispatch from San Fran
cisco throws some light on the reason
why Mrs Scale is mentioned as one of
the beneficiaries of the estate of Maj.
Camp:
1.-The sudden death of Maj. George A.
Camp in Minneapolis about week ago
facts in regard tn the dead millionaire
lumberman'S matrimonial entangle-
mentS, and will probably end in suit
over the will. Very few of his friends
in this city or in Minneapolis knew
that Maj. Camp intended to contract
second marriage about the goth of this
month. The secret has been well
guarded, and only few OF
the fiance's intimate friends in
this city have been cOgniZant of it. All
the arrangements and settlements for
fashionable wedding were completed
when Mr.. Camp returned to Mime
apolis, hoping soon to be fairly well and
ready for the connubial knot. The
woman who was to become the majors
wife is Mrs. Scale, we'll known among
the best people in San Francisco. She
is very estimable lady of about 45
summers, spent in good society and UNI
der very easy circumstances. She is
more than good looking, and of
wealthy and influential family.
"They first met at the Occidental no.
tel. where Mrs. Scale was stopping. The
major was much attached to her, but
nothing came of it at the time. Later
they met on train from the East, and
the friendship was renewed with so
much vigOr on the majors part that
they were engaged.
about week ago letter was re
ceived by Mrs. Scale from her betrothed
announcing that his bad health, and in
fact, his expected death, pre-
Guided the possibility of any marriage
III this world. and telling her that she
must be resigned to bear the name of
Scale.
Mrs. Scale left for Minneapolis last
Friday upon the advice of her attorney,
John NJ. Miller, who is now in Mime
apois. He drew Maj. Camps will.
which is understood to give Mrs. Scale
half of the majors property"
John NJ. Miller confirms all that is
said in the San Francisco dispatch
about Mrs. Scale. She is worth $780,
her husband. Mr.. Scale. He says that
her father is one of the best known
ranchmen in the West, and is estimat-
ed to have fortune of S1,000,000. Mr..
Miller says that Mrs. Scale was as much
surprised as any one at the action of
Mai. Camp when she heard of it re-
Gently.
The evening papers contained some
errors in regard to what Maj. Camp had
done and proposed to do in regard to
Mrs. Scale. He had not settled 100000
upon her, nor mad he promised to do so;
nor had he arranged to have her occupy
III. Minnetonka home; nor had ne ar
ranged trip to Europe every year.
Another error is that John NJ. Miller
h"s hpen retained as Mrs. Scales at
torneY.
Y....-c c. H. Woods has been retained
as counsel by Mrs. Won WadeIstaedt.
Judge Woods says lie does not know yet
whether there will be contest of the
will. From his actions when questioned
it would seem that a contest will lie be-
gun.