The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-31
HOLTt TRAGEDY RECALLED.
HEIRS CLAIM 4 SHARE IN ALLEGED
sMCGGLER's ESTATE.
Brother and Sister i'm North Dakota
Petition for Recognition in Pay
ment of Port Orchard COndem-
nation Award to Mrs. Tenant.


A petition which may be. the forerunner OF
All interesting litigation in me probate
court Of kitsap county was filed in the
Federal court in this city yesterday. The
petition is primarily OF interest from the
fact that IL concerns the distribution OF a
portion OF the fund paid into court by tho
government for the benefit OF the proper
Iy-owners whose land was condemned Tor
tae proposed tortifica;ions al Port Or
chard.
But outside OF this Tact AL interest at
taches 20 the petition IN that 1t recalls the
t.asic death OF Andrew Anderson Hottie,
at alleged smuggler who was killed on
board mis- sloop in Salmon bay in March,
80. ii is claimed. while resisting arrest
Customs Inspector ]. II. Coeienta, after
wards warden al the Waiia Wa.la state
peniten,!ary. fired the faia. shot Cob
lentz himself afterward met violent
death. committing suicide by shooting
himself al Wala Walia.
The petition is fled by Joakine Ander-
son Holte and GenSine Anderson Hottie. re-
spectively brother and sister OF the al
legged smuggier. The property In which
they claim an interest is lot and the
southeast quarter 81 the northeast quarter
of section 10. township "A north of range ?.
east OF the Willamette meridian. In Kit
sap county. In the condemnation pro-
Mrs. Annie Tenant. who filed a claim
for the property. damages approxima;ing
s. go
The pre.en, petitioners were also made
parties TO the suit, but did not appear and
were disregardea by the jury. They claim
in their petition, however. that they do
have a considerable interest in the prop
erty, which hey were not allowed 10 as
sert al the trial by reason of the fact that
they were given no actual notice Of the
condemnation suit until very recently. hay
ing been served with process by pub.ioa-
ton.
They Calm that Mrs. Tenant, who is
The daughter Of the dead alleged Snug
sler, acquired some Of her interest In the
property through her fathers will. Tn
der this will the petitioners claim they
were given a half interest in their broth
er's property. and set out in full copy OF
the instrument. which was made and sign
,al in presence OF Or. Rufus Willard and
Or. J. h Eag.eson. According TO this will
the testator left half OF his estate 10 Annie
Anderson Hottie. his daughter. and the re-
mainder 10 his brother and sister. Joakins
and Gensine. then living in North Dakota.
The North Dakota brother is now III Sc
attic to prosecute the alleged claim OF him.
self and his sister 10 Andrew A. Hotties
hands Of attorney. q. p. Mason, for in
Vestgation Attorney Aason's first step
has been to file the petition. the prayer OF
which Is that the government Will not pay
any of the Judgment awarded to Mrs. Ten
nant without first investigating the calm
Of the petitioners and allowing them 10
snare IN me award IL fOunu 10 De entitled
TO DO so.
Mr.. Mason said yesterday that the title
10 the Tenant property was In such
shape that he could not say definitely what
the rights OF his clients were. lie thinks.
however. that they are the owners of one
half of any property that Hottie may have
owned at the time OF his death, and that
Il will be found that a portion. at least. OF
the land condemned by the government he
loNGed 20 Hottie at that time.
Mr.. Mason seems TO think that the pro-
hate court Of kitsap county has already
awarded the whole tract OF land 10 Mrs
Tenant. II this Is the case. he saws II IL
probable that a suit viii be brought by
Ho!'e's brother AMI sister 10 SET aside the
decree Of the probate court and obtain a
division Of the property IN accorda noe
with the will. The title 10 the property. he
says Is complicated by the fact that al
though II was community property IL stood
in the name Of the alleged srnugelors wife
AT the time of the iatter's death.
lfo.te was a we,l-known character about
the Sound and for many year. traded up
ana down the Alaska coast in his little
Shop. The government officers suspected
that he was a snugGler Of whisky into
Alaska and opium into the United States.
bat many persons after his death asserted
that ne was innocent % any such crime and
vas killed without justification.