Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18
STEbb|NS' WILL
Request For Its Probate Made
in Court.
VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
Placed at $4,000 500 Mortgage
Holds 1t D0Wn-Daugh-
ter Gets All.

IOScl llS II lllS lSlIiS NouAA oNov -
tition to ave the will of the late Henry
Clay Stebbins admitted to probate. Steb-
bins died in Melrose on the Sd of this
month. The will accompanies the petit
ton. 1t is dated July 8, 1899, and bears
the names Of w. l.. Robbins and Robert
L. McCauley as witnesses.
The petition states that Stebbins died
possessed of personal property valued at
$50 and real property of the probable
value of 5000. The latter, says the pc
tition, consists of the Palatine, Palos,
Itata, Ella B., Belcher, Maud S., Yda and
Melrose unpatented mining claims, locat-
ed in Soap gulch, Silver Bow county; that
the deceased left a widow, but she Is
now more thar 60 years old, and a daugh-
ter, Nellie 1. Radcliff, SO years old, both
of Chicago; that William E. Little of
Melrose holds a mortgage for $500 on the
mining property and it will mature on
October 20 of this year; that it is there
fore necessary that the will be admitted
to probate as soon as possible.
After stating the condition of Stebbins'
mind at the time the will was signed by
him, the will reads as follows:
First, 1 desire and direct that my body
| be preserved sufficiently long to be alb
| solutely certain that death has occurred
and then that it be buried decently with
| out ostentation or extravaganza.
"Secondly, l direct that my executors
| shall, as soon as they have sufficient
| funds in their hands, pay all the expense
of my funeral, the expense of my last
| sickness and the allowances made to
themselves.
Thirdly, 1 give and bequeath to Nellie
1. Radcliff, my daughter, all of my real
and personal property of every descrip-
ton whatever Of which | shall be pos
| sessed, and to which I shall be entitled
at the time Of my death. Now. in case
| Nellie 1. Radcliff shall be dead, I de-
| sire that my estate be divided equally
betwee my four brothers and one sister,
Louisa Sinaky Of Lasalle county Illinois.
Lastly, I hereby nominate and appoint
| William Bowe and Lucina Bowe of Mel
rose as executors Of this, my last Will
and testament, and exempt them from
giving bonds. and I desire James w.
! Forbis of Butte to act as attorney to as
sist the executors in the distribution of
this will"
The clause of the document relating to
| death and burial would seem to indicate
that Stebbins had some fear of being
buried alive.
Judge Clancy discontinued further pro-
! ceedings in the Rarus-Pennsylvania vein
case today until Monday morning and
will take up his motion docket at the
usual time tomorrow morning. Among
the matters to be heard are the follow
ing:
Harry w. Renick VS.. George A. Nc
Donald, order to produce books of the
firm.
John NJ. Bowes VS.. f. H. Sherman, ex-
ceptions to and motion to strike the re-
port of the referee.
Timothy Murray VS.. Kleinschmidt &
Bro, demurrer. CAS- T. ]. Walsh cannot
be present to represent the defendant,
this matter will probably be continued.
Sophia James VS.. William ]. Dawson
and others, demurrer of Catherine For
mel.
w. A. Clark & Bro. VS.. John Caplice,
John B%rannagan and John Caplice as ad-
ministrator, motion Of defendants to
strike complaint from the files.
James H. Maloney ct al. VS.. Silas F.
King ct al, application to perform de-
velopment work preparatory to the trial
of the cause.
Flora H. Green VS.. Marshall s.. Green,
plaintiffs proofs.
Charles Dockman vs.. Jean Dekreko,
ct al, motion to discharge the receiver.
NJ. D. McSherry VS.. H. B. Campbell ct
al, plaintiffs proofs.
Estate of Stanislaus E. Hirbour, petit.
ton for family allowance.
Estate of w. H. Thomas, petition for
letters of administration.
A complaint charging Charley Ross or
Rodgers with the crime of burglary has
been issued by the war department at the
court house, and placed in the hands Of
a justice of the peace. 1t is alleged that
Ross assisted Michael Gordon in the raid
in the Washoe shaft house a few days
ago, but as Waterman Lewis could not
attend to both, Ross escaped. Since the
burglary an officer has been looking for
Ross, but the fugitive seems to be as
hard to find as the Charley Ross who dis
appeared from Philadelphia in the early
seventies. 1t may be that they are one
and the same person. 1t is alleged that
the eastern Ross was stolen by two men
named Moshier and Douglass, who were
afterwards shot and killed while burglar
ling the Van Brunt residence on Long
Island. Ross was a child at that time,
and it is possible that in the general mix
up following his disappearance and the
killing of his alleged abductors he became
lost in the shuttle, and eventually drifted
west with the tide of humanity. Christian
X. Ross, his father, spent $50, 900 trying
to locate Charley, but it was of no avail.
The state of Montana now wants Ross
about as bad as his father did, but it has
gwen it out cold that it will not squan-
der $50. 900 or half Of it in the search.
Gordon was to have been given a pre-
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