Valdez daily prospector., 1912-07-29

Notice of hearing or petition for probate of nuncupative will ana of petitions for letters of ad- mlnIStratlon upon estate of de- ceased, and citation tO widow and next 0f kin to contest said alleg-
 By order of the abOv. named court sitting ill probate, thi, day made. notice is hereby given to the widow, heirs and next of kin or Louis Canicia, 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, mat, whereas, on June 2i, 1912, k. E. Ritchie, president of the Valdez, filed in the above named court in the above entitled mat ter ms petition, praying among other things for probate of cero tam alleged nuncupativc will of said deceased, therein alleged to have been declared by said de- ceased on or about May 5, 1912. Tn the presence of witnesses who reduced the testamentary words or said deceased to writing sign ed by them severally on May :}i. 1912, and which alleged nuncu- patlVc Will, as so reduced to writ ing. and i'll said petition set 1orth. is as follows, to-wit:
 For the last three nights I nave been dreaming about nice graveyards. If anything should happen to me 1 want to have all my bills paid and what is Jeff should go to a library for the school children nf Valdez
 And: whereas afterwards, on sad June 2i, 1912, James Fish filed, in said court in said mat ter hlS petition praying for the issuance to him, as d creditor of the estate of said deceased (whO Is therein alleged to have died in tcStatc) of letters of administrn- ton of said csta'".
 Ana whereas afterwards, on July 6, 1912, the Valdez Under takinS C0., a cu-partncrship the ! DWl Drug co., d corporation. X. a2n GunIhcr. and M. M. Hopkins, filed in said court in said mat ter iiicIr petition for the issuance lo w. II. Caswc II "a member of sald CO., part nrrshipl of letters nr lcging in said petition, among other things that said petitioners are he principal creditors of said deccdent, and that he left no will m Writing and no known heirs af law. "' :, And whereas jurisdiction of the estate of said deceased an- pertains unto the above named court sitting in probate:
 Now,,. therefora,, public notice Is hereby given, 10 the widow. heirs at law and next of kin of SaId Louis Camicia, deceased, if any such there be, and to all per sons who may have any concern with his estate, that ali the peti- lions aforesaid will be heard on Wednesday. the 3Ist day of July. 1912, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon or SaId day, before the un- dcrsienrd, United States commits Sioncr in and for Valdez prccincf in the Third division of the Ter rltory of Alaska, and OK officio probate Judge in and for said pre- !rlnct. at the office of said com missioner in Valdez, Alaska: and he widow and next of kin of said deceased. if any such there be. are hereby cited and admonished to appear before the undersigned at the time and place aforesaid. and contest said alleged nuncu- natlye will of said deceased if they
 Dated this 18th day of July, 1912.
 THOMAS R. SHEPARD.
 United States Commissioner and
 cx OfficiO Probate Judge in and
 for Valdez Precinct. in the
 Third Division of the Terri
 tory of Alaska.
 First pub. July i5, 1912.
 Last pub. July go. 1912.