The sun., 1893-07-01
SENATOR STANFORD'S WILL.
All EXCEPT REAL ksTA TIE AND Se,-
100000 LEFT TO MRS. STANFORD.

The 09,5OO,O 900 Goes 20 the Stanford Unt-
ver,ity-Executors arc Advisory Oniy. the
widow Having Full Power TO Vote Per.
sonaiiy or by Proxies on All Interests.
BAN Francisco. June 3o.-The will OF Senator
Stanford was filed for probate late this after
noon. 1t was executed Nov. 20. 1885, but no
less than four codicils were made subsequent
ly. the last being under date OF Jan. % Of this
year.
The will occupies twenty FIVE type-wrltten
pages. and comprises about 5000 words 1t
was very carefully drawn by Samuel Wilson.
since deceased. and the codcils were drawn
by his son, Russell J. Wilson. All OF the Sen
ator's vast property. except the real estate and
the $2.500,00O bequeathed to the Stanford
University. he left to his wife.
The executors are merely advisory. as Mrs.
Stanford has power to vote personally or give
proxies for voting on all railroad or other in
terests held by her late husband
A digest OF the will is as follows:
Ono hundred thousand dollars to be set apart for q
tomb and monument his dead son. Leland Stanford
Jr. to be erected at his Pao Alto farm subsequently
revoked by eodic which states that the mausolsum
TO his wife. Jane Lathrop Stanford. hi. home and and
sufss iibrary and Carriages; and in case death
before him this property given to the stanford Uni
Of the remaining estate. $500 900 to hi. ero,hsr
bIo.h., josnb ann s,anfofd and the sum Of
slO00OO to the children Of his brother Charles Stan
The will then continues:
Then from the remainder of my estate I beaueath
to the trustees named in the grant fnnndng and en-.
their successors $500 900 f my wife shall survive
y, go 900 give and Dequeath sothe said executors
wise and bequesth to my nsphews and nec.s S 10000
1 seS hers f shdfea as well sP as my own chill
E,t,h Til. -on,;ndar NJ NV estate give devise and
heqaeath To @y sa'd WIFE Jane LShrop stanford
ST VII M e deaS ca 'fs Wits
time by VIII =. her death fail to dispose OF ,ns & Ss
ausath to her or should survive my wife xive all
iof for i1Gpfa p and
into money any and all such property at such times
sixih@i hereby declare that ali OF my property and
esioSsd Wife Jane Gashrop stanford and i. community
of my viii Should survive should she fail set.
ntn sPa"ni and r2t11s
executors
A codicll made Dec 2s 1892. substituted the
N, r. Smith. D. .. Mills. and Stephen I. Gage
The eighth clause, provides that no bonds
The ninth provides that the executors may
this is added a codicil executed in 1888, which
confers upon the widow power to sell any
property. to vote upon and represent al! shares
OF stock. and to grant proxies es to others to
II she deems 1t necessary.
The tenth provides that the executors may
pay tho beQuests at any time before the ex.
piration OF two years after probate.
The will is signed Nov. 20. 1885. in San Fran
son, Timothy Hopkins, and J. L. Rathbone.
The last codicil. made Jan. 25. 1899 makes
several personal bequests. Fifteen thousand
dollars is given to Herbert c. NASH his private
secretary and the tutor Of his dead son. One
hundred thousand dollars each is given to
Ariel, Charles c.. and Henry G. Lathrop
brothers Of his wife.