New-York tribune., 1919-10-01
Will
Void; Labor Man
Left Ss224&4,2 81 ,296.65
All but &I6,396.65 Is in
Stocks and Bonds; Docu-
ment Prepared OH Death
Bed Was Not Witnessed
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
WHITE PLAINS, Sept. 3O.-J Ohm
Mitchell, former head of the United
Mine Workers of America, and chair
man of the State Industrial Commits
sion, left an intended will. disposing os
an estate valued at $2i4.296.G5 The
attempted viii was not witnessed.
however, and the widow, Mrs. Catherine
Mitchell, applied here to-day for let
ters of administration, di ogardinc the
invalid document.
The document was written by Mr.
Mitchell on one Of his personal letter
heads on August 80, 1919, just previous
to undergoing an operation. He died
in New York Hospital on September
8. The will reads:
This, my last will ana testament.
II | should not recover from the
operation which | AN about to under
go. | give my estate to the following
persons in the oll1wing amounts:
TO my wife, Catherine, 33 per cent;
to eacn Of lAy children an equal
share Of the remainder. provided.
however, that from each share there
shall be deducted an eqlal sun so
as to make Sl0,00O This $4,000
shall be given 10 the following per-
sons in the following amounts: Miss
p. c. Morris, $4,000; Miss Margaret
Dunno, $4,000; my brot' er. James
Mitchell, $1,000; my brother Daniel,
$1,000. JOHN MITCHELL"
Attached to tho papers was schedule
showing that MIR. Mitchell left no real
estate, but personal property consist.
ing o. $1,000 in bonds, $2,266.66 in
foote's, $156,000 i'll stocks, total, $780,
NG6.66. He also had cash in banks
hgGregating SD, 1889.
Filled papers also included state
mcnt Of bonds and stocks owned by
Mr. Mitchell. The bonds included those
OF the Armour Company, the Baltimore
Ohio Railroad Company, the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co1-
pany, the lnterborough metropolitan,
the Mount Clemens Gas Company, the
New York Central Railroad Company,
the Ogden Gas Company, the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, the Virginia.
Carolina Chemical Company, the Chi
cago Automobile Club and the Central
Ice Company
The stocks included 100 shares Ameri-
can Tobacco, $50 shares Atchison. To
pcka & Santa Fc Railroad Company.
100 shares Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company. 200 shares Consumers Com
pany, $40 shares Consumers Company
preferred. 90 shares Diamond Match
Company, 100 shares Dawes Brothers,
. shares Farmers National Bank, so
shares General Motors Company, 60
shares Great Lakes DredQe and Dock
Company, 30 shares Greene Copper,
80 shares Illinois Northern Utilities
Company. 1903 shares Middle West Util-
tiles preferred, 70 shares Middle West
Utilities common, 100 shares Montgom
cry Ward Company, $50 shares Pc0nlc's
Gas Light and Coke Company, 81 shares
Public Service Company Of Northern
Illinois, 81 shares Peabody Coal Com
pany, 81 shares Peabody Coal Com
pany preferred, 200 shares Penrsyl-
vania Railroad Company. 80 shares
Royal Baking Powder Company, 80
shares Rely Speciality Shoe Company
. shares 4. G. Staube Manufacturing
Company, - SHARES Texas Pacific Coal
and Oil Company, SEQ shares Union Pa
ciiic Company preferred, 80 shares Nir-
sinia-Carolina Chemical Company. 75c
shares Yuba Consolidated Gold Field
Company.