The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-14
NO MORE soARpERS FOR HER.
Mrs. Noble Will Give Them Up in Order
to Enjoy a Million or So.

A fortune of very ample dimensions
is about ITO fall into the lucky hands
of Mrs. E. G. Noble of Kansas City and
Captain J. T. Morris of Emporia. Kan.
Three other heirs are to be benefited by
a. German estate, valued at $2,50o,00o
each of the recipients probably receiv-
ing a draft for s453,000. The estate has
been transformed into money and the
millions are in the Golfers of Berlins
leading bank and have been lying there
for years awaiting the presentation Of
evidence that heirs were in existence.
This evidence has been procured and
the identity Of the heirs established by
a lawyer named Brown. W. Brown
whose single hangs out in the staid
old town of Philadelphia, and who
makes a speciality Of obtaining the
rights due heirs.
Eighteen months ago Mrs. Noble and
Captain Morris We're ignorant of the
fact that they We're heirs IF any estate
other than that of old George Peter
Baker, who died early in the 18th cen
fury at Strasburg, and that of his son
Peter. 1t was in tracing their lineage
that Lawyer Brown discovered that his
clients We're entitled to share in the
millions of another German ancestor.
The discovery came about in pecu-
liar manner. In May, 1897, 10 people
met at the residence of Mrs. Noble, then
in Tullis court, and decided that as they
were descendants of George Peter
Baker it was time for them to act. An
association was organized and in due
time Brown was employed on per-
centage contract to invest gate their
claim. He learned that Baker had four
sons-George, Peter, Jacob and Henry
who left Strasburg in 1927 and came
to America. They settled near what is
now the site of lad5lphia, and soon
became noted the country round as
competent surveyors.
Their business took them into all
parts of the then American wilderness.
In the countries out Of which Maine,
New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia,
Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota
have since been carved they set up
stakes and hauled their links. They
We're thrifty, farseeing and enterpris-
ing. For their fees they often took
land the result being that in few
years they were great landed proprie-
tors. All of the brothers except Peter
died without issue, and he passed away
in 1890 His descendants have multi
piled until now over 300 are known to
exist and they are claimants to prop
critics the value of which is appraised
by them at over $500 900, 900. In the city
of brotherly love the property they
view as theirs, although it has been in
the possession of others for over CEN
fury, is valued by them at over $780,
DOC, 900.
In the prosecution of his researches
Attorney Brown was compelled to go to
Lancaster county in Pennsylvania and
he spent many days in examining
musty and almost undecipherable man
uscripts in the archives of the county.
BY them he not only determined that
his clients were beyond a doubt de-
scendants in a direct line of Baker Of
Strasburg and of Peter, his American
son, but that they We're also entitled to
the estate of another ancestor of whose
name and genealogical connection Mrs.
Noble is still ignorant. He at once COM
municated his discovery to Captain
Norris who subsequently signed an
agreement which binds him and his
sister, Mrs. Noble, to pay the attorney
20 per cent. of the amounts they will
receive. e.
Last week Brown wrote to the cap
tain and in his letter prosaically called
his attention to the 20 per cent. agree
ment and then disclosed the news that
a draft for $4,000 was likely to reach
him in almost any mail thereafter. Mrs.
Noble was informed of her good for
tune and as a result a very prosperous
boarding house at 1909 Washington
street, Kansas City, will soon be ON the
market for sale-Chicago Chronicle.