The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-26
MARK TWAIN'S ESTATE TOTALS
 OVER $6O0,OOO
TWAIN B H LEAD IT

| TWAIN B H LEAD IT
 Redd1ng, Oct. 26-The inventory O | the Mark Twain Samuel L. Clemens estate as returned by the appraisers | Albert Bige1ow Paine and Harry A
 Lounsbury, to the probate court fol l the district of Bedding shows a tota | of s611.1s6, of which s7O,OoO represent!
 realty and the remaining $541, ,136 per | sona1 property. The residence "Storm feld'' and the 23O acres belonging tt it are appraised at $66 900 and tht cottage known as the Lobster Pot
 with it's 20 acres at $4,O00. The copy right values of the Mark Twain books appear nowhere in the list as such The explanation of this is that these
 values are grouped in the va1utior l placed upon the assets of the Mark Twain Go. which was incorporated 8
 year or two before the authors death
 and to which all the copyrights were
 assigned. This company is down on
 the inventory list at $2oO, 900.
 The principal items which go tc
 make up the value of the personal
 estate are as follows: 100 shares Am
 erican Telegraph and Telephone Co
 stock at $1367s, $23, 6S7.50; 1,750 shares
 in stock of the Utah Consolidated
 Mining Co. at $46.25, $sO. .937.50; 16E
 shares in stock of the United Fruit
 Go. at $176, $29, ,75O; CT shares in stock
 of Brooklyn Union Gas Go. at $50
 $1S 100; 100 shares in stock of Union
 Pacific R. R. Go. at $185N, SIS, 587- 50;
 50 shares stock of Mark Twain Co.,,
 $200, GOO. three, shares of Fentress Land
 Co.,. $500; 813 shares stock of J. Lang
 don Co.,, at $26.66, $21, ,674.5S; 60 shares
 Roodeport Central Deeps (an English
 Corporation) at 10 shfI1ings, $50; two
 bonds of Park county, State of Mon
 tana, $2.00O; one bond of Atlanta, Gas Light Co. $1,000; 10 bonds Duva1 coun- ty, State of Florida, $5,OO0; 4 notes of
 Sanford Wilson, $4O0; cash due from
 c. J. Langdon of Elmira, being the
 proceeds of the sale of real estate
 made April I, 1910, $41, ,66667; due the estate of the deceased from a solvent person not named and paid to the ex- ecutors of the estate, $7,S24.24.
 The return shows that the late MT. Clemens was the victim of some un- fortunate investments, the chief of these being his venture in the securi- He had 375 shares in the capital stock of this company the total value of which is placed at $100. He also held 5000 shares of the capital stock of the Plasmon Syndicate, Limited. for which the executors were unable to obtain an offer and which is set down in the list at $1 900. Four hun dred shares of stock of the Plasmon Go. of America are set down as hav ing no value whatever. Other securf- ties of the estate declared to be worth Co.,, 345 shares of the Roylo Co.,, 113 shares of the International Spiral Pin Co.,, one share of the Bandar Log Press and 400 shares and 32 bonds of Mechanical Cash RQQiS- ter Co.
 The furniture and furnishings of stormheld are appraised at $1O 145, of which $1.08O is in si1verware, $500 in china and glassware and $2,OO0 in books in the library. The live stock and vehicles on the place go in at ture stored in New York The real estate referred to as having been sold by c. J. Langdon is supposed to be New York property. The inventory
 ttJean L. Clemens, the daughter of said Samuel c. Clemens, died on or about Dec. A, 1909 intestate, and her estate which descends wholly to her said father, is in process of settle ment in the court of probate for the district of Bedding, and the property paid over by the administrator of her estate upon the settlement thereof to the executors of the will of samuel L. Clemens, is as follows: Here fol- lows the 1nVenCOTy O1 lAAO SSIe1IS Ot lean L. Clemens showing a total of $7, ,OOO.'
 item of the personal estate a small trunk and it's contents which had been placed with the Lincoln Trust Go. of New York. The contents con sist of certain manuscripts of the late MT. Clemens, but as the originals of these were at his home in this town no value was placed on the copies m
 The sole heir of the estate is the only surviving child, now the wife of Ossip Gabri1owitsch, the Russian p1an- ist. Besides the appraisers the 1nVen- tory is signed by Edward E. Ioom1s' soheth s. Freeman and Jarvis Lang ion the executors of the estate An extension of time beyond the usual so days had been obtained for sub hitting the inventory and it was not returned until the allotted full time If six months had expired