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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-10-26

Jay w. Crawford and two children,
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Crawford Of
Wadsworth, Mr.. Porter Crawford Of
Cleveland and Mrs. HARRISON Arm
strong and three grandchildren Of
Wooster.
Mrs. Fred Overholt and Miss Emily
Noyes attended the semi-annual mis-
si0nary meeting Of the Cleveland Pres.
bytery OF Westminster church Of
Cleveland.
Miss Ella Ross Of Wooster was
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Walter Sny-
der on Saturday and Sunday. Miss
Snyder is linotypist in the Republi-
can Office at Wooster.
Mr.. Ambrose Pettitt Of Lorain was
greeting old friends in town Saturday.
Mr.. Pettitt is employed in the power
house of the G. e. S. w. car line.
The scarcity of sugar has caused
the merchants to put limit of 5 TBS.
to 9 customer in Seville this week.
| Mrs. Roy Armstrong of Wooster was
/ a guest at the home Of Mrs. Sarah
C0lburn on Thursday.
Mr.. H. G. Dix has been confined to
his bed the past week with inhamma-
tory rheumatism. Mrs. Hamilton, a
trained nurse Of Creston, is caring for
him.
Mr.. Ora Hartzler was business call
er in Cleveland Thursday.
Mr.. Samuel Fasig of Barberton was
q guest Of his daughter, Mrs. Fred
Overholt on Saturday.
On Tuesday Mrs. Sarah Brumbaugh;
Mrs. May Tyler, Mrs. Mary Brum-
baugh, Mrs. Sarah Morton and Mrs.
DR.. Allen of Creston, went to Cleve-
land to attend the Grand Chapter of
the Eastern Stars for few days.
4 Mrs. Eva Hatton Of Youngstown
came on Monday to spend the week
with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Car
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hilton of Wadswortl
were Sunday guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
Bert Baker.
i Mr.. Amos Spice and Mr.. Bernie
Baker spent Sunday with their fam
/ lilies in Seville, returning to Lafferty
on Monday morning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
Gasoline Outlook
Good, Says Rittmdn

Continued from Page Two
man points out that the question Of meeting
the demands Of the motorcar multitudes is
not insOluble. on the contrary he says the
situation can and probably will he met in
two ways:
First by increasing the production of
gasoline from crude oil by cracking us long
ms the crude oil supply lasts.
Second. After the crude oil supply is gone
(a) by cracking the oil obtained from shnIc,
coal, neat ignite. etc, and tb) by using
alcohol obtained by increasing the raising
OF potatoes and corn.
Cracking is a process OF extracting gago-
line from crude oil a process that produces
many more times the amount Of motor fupl
than Is possible by the conventional disiil-
laton The use Of cracking. which involves
superheatng the crude oil and breaking
1t up into the volatile constituents that pro-
duce gasoline. is responsible for the allcvi-
alton Of the gasoline striugeucy and to 10
chemists and oil producers look for the sblu-
ton of the problem.
Already II has thrown added millions Of
dollars into the automobile industry. Truly
1t seems to be a fulhllmeut of the testing
prophecy Of Lord Macauay. who referring
to the chemist Of the thirteenth century
wrote:
And soon all his kettles and griduous
viii be turned into pure gold"
ENOUGH GAS" FOR Autos
Although the process is young, the effect
Of 1t on the motor fuel industry already
has been SO marked that the Immediate
future, 1917, does not contain any gasoline
shortage bugaboo. The gasoline supply for
tins year looks good, according to Doctor
Rittman.
There are in operation today between
3.5Oo.000 and 4,O0O,O0U automobiles in the
United states. or one for every twenty-five
or thirty persons he said. "Machincs are
being made at the rate Of between 1000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
NATIONAL PROSPERITY
pROPPED BY MOTORCAR
s.ob,e Fourth Industry Forms
Big Part of Country's FL
nancial Backbone
ZENITH NOT REACHED

.,,,onobite once the representative
Inc stroor, Industry. today is regarded
o. xmrors and business men as one OIL t,it
H " rrops of the prosperity that WI,
ehsl gryrrp test in the Commeitlal
pu'.rie prom by the END OF the war
,let oriv VII the motorcar industry u''-
~, the test without detrimeh'' ln ,l'''
s.inion but II will act as a great I ,,,
op' .,,si,ess This prediction is baseu on
q s.,,t mat the manufacture OF automo-
NJ st $40 OOO, ,OOO-a-year activity RANKS
phes,', among American Industries ana,
iu,,,orr,ore. that its foundations rest not
iui ,no shifting sands Of opportunism' nuI
ep,,roi, ,ipon q roCk-economic hecesstN'
s,,rmcrv of the motorcar mahuiac-
= noint of view runs as follows:
mLer pot,rc,r industry received its great
i"s,,,pition In the year just closed. IN
80 II may be said TO have anchored tssli
Isiv isi,iIv Last year was marked by the
i,nyoetment of money that heretofore nau %
.d,diouslv avoided entanglement win Wha'
80 viewed as an untrustworthy enter
@ We Financial backing came with a gen
pllsv hand from the great money centers
~ ,ho country Leading hnanoiers par
.'.,natcd in mergers and expansion. laying
.t, r,,retore of the structure that has been
n the building only thirteen years.
MONEY BACKS INDUSTRY
,,i,,rci,I recognition from a conservative
x.n,ing profession clnched the future OF
pal'NinS ,.,,,,r irdustrv. II stiled tremors Of
vv vv ~ raisod hv phcnomcnal growth The
oVuos W. ,cg,i,rony oC invested capital ind-
sN.m .s maj tho inotorcar industry has not
Sa9I SateS ,t,, "safurntion point" the zenith
Is"I"' :, a., do,coIopn,cut, but that It Is a sub
o,5,i Vi u rorp,aneut. growing industry. well
t,an'n" v,n ,,I., caro- Of itself in the hurly-
bury Of the worlds tra''c ana 10 S'e'"
legitimate p,"i'ts, tr,i,, oil rcc,rds in in
The aut"hlonIc IN t,i,h,I . i, e,,hic
dustrlal El"N" "' ,,,,,,,,go Il is ,
and lucIa',Nt '''',' ~. ,,,,,.,,,,.,,,i,,, botb
necessity f'olT"! III c,tn,,., ir tho
for business "''u I',, ,!i,,tt,- tho Citins
wake OF tue ',l",''v ,t,n ;,,I,,etr, the
and towns nun. W. '..,i n' ,,,,,. traiis b,,ilt
auto'l'opn, ,,.,l,, ,,,,,ntLor enarselv settled
roads ana i''N," 80, ,,i -, thc cit, II
districts WI .ut ',, ~, -, "' H,,n,.ir,n Iirn
has ataSneu l'Se'. ',,',,,s -
and mas pet"i"' " 70 ~ t,,, , ,,,ldcr
+ Ihe year J"'l ''"',H '''t, t,,1,,,,. >.a,c,.
year lor Tue "u'v'"'"''. ',, .,i,.i,,. IL,
before mas th'It uve. 'S,,, ,,,rr,,s,ci ali
that traae-HI ii.,,i' 1,S',',' ,,,Ito at his time
expectatlo'.S' ,,',,r t0IG ,yo,IId 500
last year INA. W., H. t-ni,nd Stotes
every te'',n lN.""S -" ,,,,it,, ,,.o,o ronr-
III o"i'e'"'' WI '! -..,.,..,,,,,, ,,.o,,,,s
pooneu as I''''S"'nu,n! .,!,. ..,,Ia', ,rhe nrsdir
puilt upon ''''"S ,, nv ,,',.l,, Thav aid
uons tuiu'" "ma w. st,,i.,fcg committed by.
NOT 20 ~. ,"""Ei,, ,,i, tb, corcI,sion that
one n".l,o'u,i ca,,iI,, toilav o,yns n motor
every seNum'm t,,i.tioto,, r,hogc rrurcs are
car .,,,.i,. Nut,,' c,i,,,atos th,t overv eighth
su.,Tt siIi,. ~, n,,to,nohiIr Inasmuch as
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17

The heavy line shows progress Of
"gas" output, dotted line iudicat-
ing probable course of curve this
year. Below, in circle, is DR. Walter
f. Rittman, inventor of Rittman
cracking process. whose outlook on
gasoline question is optimistic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
HOw Chemical Engineer
TieUS Fuel Question
GASOLINE supply for 1917 is
\ i ,,o,,,;.;,,,.

GASOLINE supply for 1917 is
VI promising.
Prices should range between II
and 80 cents a gallon for entire
country; % to 2S cents in East,
Cracking processes, whereby more
gasoline is extracted from crude oil
than by distillation, are coming to
rescue and dominate situation.
Benoz, touol and alcohol are
practicable substitutes for gasoline
but are not in sufficient quantity
now. Heavy kerosene is unsatisfac-
tory substitute.
Supply of crude oil is at its height
and geologists believe it will con-
tinue for thirty years, BY incrcas-
ing gasoline extraction from crude
oil, country will be supplied until eN-
pected day when gasoline, failing,
will be supplanted by alcohol and by
motor fuel taken from oils extracted
from coal, peat, Ignite, shale and al
lied substances.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
sunsTrrUrEs ron GASOLINE

ON account of the immense demand for
gasoline"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17

chief among the new methods are the
Rittman and the Burton cracking processes,
The Burton process is employed by the
standard oil Company. The Atlantic Re
filming Company plant here uses a modilca-
ton of it. The Rittman process, which
has been offered free OF charge by the
Government to producers, was invented by
Doctor Rittman while he was In the re-
search department of tho Bureau of Mines.
II differs from other cracking processes.
They crack the oil as a liquid. subjecting
il to high heat as n liquid. The Rttman
process first vapori2cs the oil and cracks
it as a vapor. applying high heat to the
oil as Vapor.
The fact that the number of plants that
are adopting cracking is rapidly increasing
is sufficient testimony as to the value OF
the processes, according to Doctor lAtt-
man.
no other method OF producing gasoline
Is in sight now" he said, "Gasoltne from
natural gas supplies less than per cent
of the total. and will not reach more than
ten per cent. BenZol and toluol from coke
ovens never will be Il relatively large item
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
KAURI PEAT YIELDS GAS"
New Zealanders Find Way to Increase
Supply

new source of gasoline production has
been discovered and utilized i'm New Hea-
land and Australia, where the peat formed
by prehistoric kauri trees in the swamps
Of these countries is transformed into gaso-
line a yield of six or seven gallons Of
motor fuel is realized as a by-product from
every ton of peat,
The hardenede kauri gum or copal, a
resinous product of the piney tree, is too
valuable to be refined for fuel as il finds a
ready market as "A substitute for amber
and in the making of varnishes. But vast
quantities Of peat are in the fossil
remains and from these an oil is extracted,
From twenty to thirty gallons Of oil is the
average yield of each ton Of peat. About
twenty-five per cent of this is converted
into motor fuel, the larger amount being
sold at high prices 10 the varnish industry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
Automobile Pills

pill Of 'soldifed gasoline" has been
invented by a New Yorker, who asserts
suat $50 worth of these pills will provide
motive power to take an automobile across
the continent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
THREE KINDS OF "GAS"
Straight Blended and Cracked Case
line Defined by U. S. Government

Gasoline sold In the United states ia di-
vidcd into three classes by the Bureau OF
Mines
rhcy are: First straight refinery gaso-
line for special purposes. such a:s aeropanc
use; second. blended casinghcad gasoline
for uso In motorcars about two years old
and three, cracked and blended gasoline for
up-to-datc cars that can efficiently use the
heavier fuel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
3,OOO,OOO, 900 GALLONS NEEDED

This year, according to my estimate We
shall need 100000 900 gallons. which is Il
big Increase II one looks at a curve OF
gasoline production he will at once realize
that it behooves us to get busy to meet the
requirements of the rapidly growing indus
try"
Doctor Rittman drew a curve. showing
graphically the increase in the production
Of gasoline from 1909 to 1916, with the
PROBABLE course Of the curve this year II
his estimate is correct. the country must
produce IOO.0OO.00O more gallons of gas
oIinc this year than last, or more than the
total production eight years ago
Dc ctUr Rittman was asked what he
thouVhs the price would be this year
"rha price of motor fuel varies widely
throughout the country differences that
are absolutely unwarrautcd," he replied
For instance, in December 1916, when
gasoline In Philadelphia was selling as
high az twenty-five cents a gallon, in Chi
CagO the price was seventeen and onc-half
cents, and in Kansas city fourteen and
three-quartcr cents these differences are
much greater than the freight differentals,
Therefore, we have no solid basis for es-
Inmates.
25-2S CENTS TO BE PRICE
However. l expect to see gasoline find
a level in the East of about twenty-five to
twenty-eight cents, ranging between seveu-
teen and thirty cents for tire entire country
during 1917"
There should be no abnormal increase in
tho price for the next ten years, hc added
provided the number of automobiles does
not 80 above the 100000 mark Tho
cracking method of extracting gasoline
from crude oil would check the price, he
said, by increasing the supply.
Doctor Rittman regards the increased use
of the new method as very significant
BY 1920 he expects that nearly seventy-ivc
per cent of all the gasoline on the market
will be produced by cracking. The reason
is very simple: Distillation produces only
ten or fifteen per cent gasoline out of the
crude oil content, whereas cracking trans
forms fifty or SeYcnty-five per cent of the
crude oil into gasoline.
The percentage of gasoline found i'm
crude oil and extracted by distillation varie"
widely for the different oils" lie said
"HiEh-grade eastern and Oklahoma Crudes
contain from twenty to thirty per cent Of
gasoline, while half the oil produced in
California contains no gasoline whatever.
Ten to fifteen per cent of the crude oil
would represent a good average for the
entire country's crude oil content of gaso-
line.
CRACKING YIELDS MORE GAS"
"The percentage of gasoline extracted
from tho base by cracking also varies. Ex-
aggerated claims are made by different in
VentOrs, but practice does not bear them
out. A conservative estimate is fifty to
seventy-tive per cent of the crude oil CON
verted into gasoline. That is more than
three times as much as the amount made
by distillation."
The bright future in store for cracking
processes was shown by Doctor Rittman in
the following table, which represents his
prediction as to the growth of the crack
ing idea;
PERcENTAGE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17

SUBSTITUTES FOR GASOLINE
Substitutes for gasolinc--bcn2ol, toluol.
alcohol and kcroscuc--wcre discussed hy
Doctor Rtttmau
"Beuzol, toluol and alcohol arc thor
oughly practicable, but their use depends
entirely upon the cost and quantity avail
able" he said "Thc amount Of crude
bcn2ol and toluol made yearly now is a
little more than 3O.OOO,OOO gallons in the
United States. with the new ovens being
constructed it will become more than 30
uO00UO gallons But these amounts are
in the motor fuel situation, where we figure
in terms of billions OF gallons instead of
millions.
Alcohol" he continued "will not become
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17

lcohol." he continued "will not become
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
~ MILES A GAS" GALLON
Professors Car Uses That at Fifteen
Mile Gait

Honestly how much gas" mile do
you use
Here YOU have n professors word for
how much his car eats up After testing
a fully loaded touring car at various speeds.
David l.. Gallup, professor OF gas engineer
ing at the Worcester CNass) Polytechnic
Institute. reported tho following results.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17

fcssors knowledge OF gas engineering en-.
ahlcd him to perform this feat.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24
TEACHERS FROM
EVERY SECTION
One Hundred and Thirty-seven Teach
ers Attend Study Center at
Denison Last Saturday. r.
TEACHERS COLLEGE LECTURERS
Splendid Lectures Given and Inter
est in Educational Lines Renewed
List of Attendants.

One hundred and thirty-seven school
teachers from every section of Craw-
ford county gathered in Denison Sat
urday to attend the study center meet
ing which had been arranged for them
by Prof. F. N. Olry, superintendent
of the schools. 1t was one OF the most
profitable meetings Of its kind ever
held in the county and the teachers
who attended are loud in their praises
of the fine program which was ar
ranged for their benefit The study
center was not confined alone to the
rural teachers, but grade and high
school teachers were in attendance
them which will prove beneficial in
their work.
Meetings were held in the county
court house, commencing at $40 in
the morning and continuing all day.
Lectures were delivered by C. H..
Meyerholz, John Barnes and Eva May
Luce of the Iowa State Teachers col
lege at Cedar Falls. Their lectures
were on topics of vital interest to the
teachers and full of helpful hints of
practical use in the school room.
Below is printed the names of
those who were in attendance at the
meeting, 2a. s.ra ~
C. E. Humphrey, Jacob Johnson,
Fannie Hayes. Faye Chamberlain, He'd
wig Brodersen, Chas. Helsley, Lillian
Miller, Alice James, Edna Raine, Effie
Norris, Elsie Cornforth, Susie Craft,
Harriet Hall, Mabel Kelly, Myrtle Nc
Ahren, Lillian Olson, Margaret Nc
Henry, Pearl Wilson. Florence Eng
lund, Ruth Peterson, Prof. Webster,
Helen Johnston, Mabel G. Cole, Char
,lotte Anderson. Cornelia c. Work, An
ma Jansen. Mary "A. Peters, w. L.
Ts,pner, u. B Dieserroth. Dora Mass
man, Esther TIfnldnd. f'Iossfe1 Phils
lips. Marian johnson. Elsie Able, Mar
tina Hird, Gladys Funk, Clara Nor
gan, Edna Stewart, c. w. Manning,
Bernice Hunsicker, Margaret Ryan,
Hattie HASTE, Mildred Virgins, Hilda
Turnlund, Agnes Goddard, Ellen God
dard, Sister Mary Hyacinth, Irene
WEIGH, Kate Rusterholz, Coda Wat
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24

Ike, Ellen Collins, Katherine Gaffey,
Hazel Aebischer, Ruby Kelley, Minnie
Giss, Ruth Tucker, Birdie Metcalf,
Blanche Murchland. nellie 2. Conner,
Grace Murchland, Vera Book, Anna
mae Fitzsimmons, Fora Smith Jenna
Strahan, Inez Lally, Elizabeth Cook,
Emma Wilken, Stanley Browne, Fran
,ces Delaney. Blanch Slechta, Irene
Kearney, Minnie saylor, Florence
Horn, Elizabeth McGrinn; Mary Far
reilly, Sarah Trexel, Mary Giss, Lillian
Doherty, Gertrude Schwab, Laura
Bhaer. Lucy Kane, Mrs. W. J. Tuck
er, Agnes Owens. Ellen Murphy, Ada
Lowens, Agnes McGrath, Kate Cava-
naugh, Marguerite Mullen. Alta Howe,
Ethel F. Howe. Blanche Hedges, Rose
Schierholdt, Pussie Schrader, Hester
Lingle, Decide Carl, Nellie Staininger,
Elsie Piper. Bessie Hunt, Charlotte
Nutter, Nora Stephenson, Marie Do
llerty, Carolyn McCracken, Florentina
Dixen, Agnes SchWab, Blanche Cole,
Mrs. r. E.. Rollins, Olive Sophy, Iva
Smith, Henrietta Murphy, Anna Nc
Caffery, Mary Hall John L. Aims
worth, Estella Hickey. Pearl Beau
mont, Ruth Leise, A. G. Myers, Hazel
Leise. Irma Beutel. Mary A. Brown,
Vera Norris, Marian Harrington, Mrs.
Anna Williams, Helen Kral,y Mae Col
Inns, Mrs. w. G.. Browne, Elizabeth
Marie Collins. Musa Gar
rett, Nellie B. Collins, Leona john
stone, Lillian Bhaer, Ludwig Seigner,
Jessie Winans, Clara Blume, Otto
Emogene WEIGH, Henrietta
tombstone. -
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24
REMARKABLE WILL
COMES T0LIGHT
John seemann, Ex-sheriff Of Crawford
County, One Of the Forty, Heir
to Thirty.seven Millions.
MONEY HELD BY DANISH CROWN
Wife Of One Gen. Jurgen MoIdt, Aunt
of Mr.. Seemann, lnherits Money
and Dies Soon Thereafter

Mr.. John H. Seemann, father OF
Mr.. L. Seemann, who is making his
home here in Denison with his son, is
one of forty heirs who hope to divide
an estate which. by reason of one OF
the most remarkable satiric wills on
record, has lain idle for more than a
century and now has an estimated
value of $37,OO0,000. Proceedings are
now under way to recover from the
Danish crown the estate of Gen. Jur-
gen Moldt. The wife of Gen. Moldt
was an aunt of Mr.. John H. Seemann
and left no children,
A further item Of interest in the
case is that none of the heirs Is un-
der so years OF age and two, WHO re-
side in Germany, are almost 100 years
old.
The inheritance proceedings con-
Germ the strange will of Gen. Moldt,
a prominent figure in Danish history
when SchleswigHolstein was still a
Danish possession. More than CEN
fury ago Gen. Moldt gathered togeth-
er. an immense fortune in specie. He
married the aunt of Mr.. John H. See
mann. peasant girl by the name OF
Thanie Seemann, and SO sure was he
that his wife's poor relatives would
seek to obtain share in his tremen-
dous fortune, through the money he
would leave his wife, he determined
to circumvent them. II
The terms of his will provided that
the whole of his fortune was to go to
his wife, and be for her use alone.
There were no children. He further
provided that on her death that the
money was to go, not to the relatives
of his spouse, but to the Danish crown,
here tosa9crusv interest of 2 IA per
cent, for 100 years, at the end of which
heifs 81 MS wife migiit claim what had
been denied their fathers, with ac-
.;crued interest. Thanie Moldt died
shortly after her husbands death, and
the money as had been directed went
to the crown.
Twelve years ago the stipulated cen
fury expired and the government ad-
vertised for heirs Of the Seemann
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24
JONES WINS ROAD CASE.
Supreme Court Renders Decision in
Jones VS. Petersen Road Case, in
... Favor of J. p. Jones.


The supreme court. on Saturday last
passed upon a case which was tried
here two years ago andsat the time at
tracted considerable attention on &C
count of the prominence On the people
interested in the case and'the large
number of witnesses called to testify
This was the case of Jones VS., Peter
sen, it being an action brought by Mr.
Jones against Petersen, as road SUI
pervisor of Washington township / in
this county, to enjoin him from tear
ing down fences which Mr.. Jones
erected on his land and which were
built across what had been under
stood by some people to be public
highway by prescription. The farm.
ers in this locality had been travelling
this road for number of years and
claimed that by long use it had be-
come public highway. Mr.. Jones,
however. contested the dea and
brought the matter before the court.
After a prolonged trial of the case the
district court, Judge Hutchinson presid-
ing, decided that public highway was
established by long use and dedica-
ton, and dismissed the Injunction.
The supreme court, however, takes a
different view of the situation and
hold that the long use which had been
had on the road did not make it a. le-
gal highway.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24

estate. There was no response. For
more than a year the government
kept the investigation going, but the
Seemann heirs were apparently all
dead Then one day from the Isle OF
Alsen came an old man of SO years,
who proclaimed himself one OF the
heirs to the fortune, and told of hear
ing his father, who was a brother OF
Thanie Moldt. tell of the crusty old
Danes scheme to keep his wife's rel
atives from using his money. His
claims were investigated and found
valid; he had relatives in America,
and one by one the heirs were located
and notified. There are forty of them
altogether. An attorney in Copenhag-
en- is representing the heirs in Ger
many. q
Mr.. David G. Hathaway, an attor-
ney of Los Angeles, is handling the
case for the American claimants and
will leave in short time for Den
mark to conduct the legal proceed
ings there. Mr., Hathaway is native
of Denmark and for this reason was
chosen by the heirs of the estate to
represent them. He does not antici-
pate any great trouble in getting the
estate adjusted since the Danish gov.
eminent advertised for the heirs. and
no doubt will be willing to give up the
money.
Mr. John Seemann has received a
number of letters from his relatives
in California in regard to the estate
and they are all of the opinion that it
will materialize.