The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-16
A CONTEST PROBABLE
Over the Estate Of The Late Daniel
Rash Is
HIS SON NOW IN MIssoULA
The cass VIII Be Peculiar One.
Owine to sthet Fact That He
Had Two Wives and sey-
fEstf erai Children. -

that there Will be q contest over the estate
of the.ate Daniel Rash. Some time ago,
the STANDARD printed the fact that the
deceased had left . family in Iowa, when
he came West 30 years ago. 1t was stated
at that time that the Iowa wife had since
married and that the children. now
adults. had instituted Inquiries regarding
the property of Rash in this state with
view Of laying <claim TO a share Of the
estate. AZ nlrestltof the information OBJ
tanned, the son, BY the Iowa wife, has
came to Missoula and has placed bis case
in the hands of Bickford, Stiff d Hershey.
J. M. Dixon will represent the Iowa wife.
The case will attract considerable atten.
ton as Rash was q we'll known old-tiu1er
here and as his marriage here had some
sensational incidents connected with 1t.
The report of tho administrators Of the
estate, filed last week, shows that the
value of the estate is about $l1 900, con-
sisting principally of real estate and bills
receivable. j. II. T. Ryman, the admins
istrator, has been informed officially of
tho existence of the Iowa claimarte. It
will rcmain for the court to decide what
the disposition of the estate shall be. It
is certain that the Iowa children will be
entitled to q portion, and tho question to
decide is whether or not the widows shall
receive any of the estate, and if there is
to be widows portion which widow is
entitled to it. There were no children
born of the second marriage.
Manuel M. Rash, the son who II hero
from tho East, is an intellient farmer,
whose residence is now in Oklahou,A. His
story corresponds exactly with the state
ment of the case already made In the
STANDARD. After the elder Rash came
West he wrote regularly for time to his
wife in Iowa and then the letters ceased
to come. News Of Rash's death. which
| was supposed to be reliable, came to the
| family after the cessation Of the cores
pondence and they mourned him as dead.
| The wife subsequently married and the
| children, the son now here, and q daugh-
| ter, grew to maturity. The daughter is
now married and lives in the East. In
rome way, probably through nephew
who had been in this city, the family
learned of the death of Rash this spring
and at once prepared to claim the estate.
As was stated in the STANDARDS previ-
Gus account, the nephew who was here
announced his relationship during the
| last illness of Rash and, IL is now said.
Rash acknowledged him and asked him
| to say nothing to the eastern family, as
| his wife had married again and he wished
| to save her trouble. This nephew Is the
son of Rash's sister and has met the son
since the latter's arrival here. They
| knew each other as boys and they tell the
same story of the departure of Rash for
| the West and the subsequent report of
| his death. Both are honest appearing
men and their story is believed by those
| who have heard 1t. q
The Missouia widow was Mrs. McIn-
tyre, a divorced woman, before Rash mar
1 III 49, h. waI fi.t, iron.
| her former husband on statutory grounds
| after several attempts. The letters fron
| Mcintyre. which were introduced in
the case were decidedly sensational To
| them he urges his wife to enter into GER
| tain schemes of blackmail, which he OUT
lines and in one of them he tolls her to
work Rash,'' adding sit would be easy
| for you to make a mash and you ought to
| have no trouble in working him now"
| He tells her that he does not care how far
/ she goes, only he wants her to tell him
everything. The divorce was granted only
after Mcintyre had admitted the charge
against him and the woman's marriage to
Rash soon after occasioned considerable
| comment. -
| Soon after the death of Rash, McIntyre
| appeared and has been in this section
ever since. There has been no apparent
foundation, however, for any of the ru-
mors that have been freely circulated
since his return. he has been accom-.
panied some of the time by cousin,
Ellen. who figures in the letters men,
toned above.
Attorneys claim that the Iowa heirs win
have no difficulty in establishing their
identity and their claim to the estate.
Anyway, Missoula will be in line with the
metropolitan centers, with q contested
estate on hand. Rash left no will, posi-
bly, anticipating the appearance of the
eastern heirs.