Valdez daily prospector., 1912-07-18

Notice of hearing or petition Tor probate of nuncupativc will and Of petitions for letters of ad- ceased, and citation to widow and next Of kin to contest said allcg- ed will.
 By order of the abUv,. named court sitting ill probate, this day made. notice is hereby given to the widow, heirs and next of kin of Louis Calnicia, deceased, late Of Valdez, Alaska, who died at said Valdez on May t2, 1912, and to- all who may have any concern With the estate of said deceased, tnat, whereas, on June 2i, 1912, F.. E. Rltchie, president of the common council of said town of valdez, filed in the above named court Tn the above entitled mat ter his petition, praying among tain alleged nuncupativc will of said deceased, therein alleged to nave been declared by said de- ceased on or about May 5, i9I. Ill the presence of witnesses who reduced the testamentary words of said deceased to writing sign ed by them severally on May 3I, 1912, and which alleged nuncu- patlVe Will as so reduced to Writ ing and in said petition set forth, is as follows, to-wit:
 "For the last three nights nave been dreaming about nice SraVeyards. If anything should happen to me 1 want to have all my pills paid and what is left should go, to library for the schooi children of Valdez"
 And. whereas afterwards, on said June 2i, 1912, James Fish filed, in said court in said mat ter his petition praying for the issuance to him, as a creditor of the estate of said deceased (who IS therein alleged to have died in testatc) of letters of adIninistra- ton of said csta'e.
 And whereas afterwards, on July G, 1912, the Valdez Under taking Co.,, a co-parlnership, the ! Owl Drug Co.,, a corporation. A.. Aon Gunthrr, and NJ. M. Hopkins, l filed i'll said court in said mat i ter their petition for the issuance 1 to w. II. Caswcll Ca member of sad CO partncrship) of letters of admins ration of said cstaie. al lcglng in said petition, among ''hNi 'h'irS lilit Sdlu I)Plll toner's are he principal creditors of said drcedcnt, and that he left no will m writing and no known heirs at law. :, And whereas Jurisdiction of the estate of said deceased ap- pertains unto the above named court slit ing in probate:
 Now, therefore,, public notice Is hereby given, to the widow. heirs at law and next of kin of sad Louis Camicia, deceased, if any such there be, and 10 all per sons who may have any concern with his estate, that all the peti- lions aforesaid will be heard on Wednesday. the 31st day of July, 1912, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon of said day, before the un- dersIaned, United States cOmmis- Sloner in and for Valdez precinct in the Third division of the Ter rItory of Alaska, and ex OfficiO probate judge in and for said pre- cInct: at the office of said com mlssioncr in Valdez, Alaska: and inc widow and next of kin of said deceased. if any such there be, arc hereby cited and admOnished To appear before the undersigned at the time and place aforesaid ana contest said alleged nuncu- natiyc will of said deceased if they think proper.
 Dated this 18th day of July. 1912.
 THOMAS R. SHEPARD,
 United States Commissioner and
 eX OfficiO Probate Judge in and
 for Valdez Precinct. in the
 Third Division of the Tcrri-