The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-27
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MAGIC Of LAM !.
]. PUTS ! ! ! MILLIONS !! | | :! 5 !.
1. IN : POCKETS } | H /
Forgotten Poor Cousins Share IL.
III. Il. Estate Of Wealthy =. q. !
5s.1 4. y. Oil Man. 's.f5 .5
MILLIONAIRE LEFT NO Will.
wealth Comes 80 Aged People Whose
lsS Lives Have Been Largely Filled I
B ss}s; with Hardships-Hunt for @ ],
ii 5$. Heirs 10 Difficult. +s$(

.lssS, with neutrality-suspicious. for Fl, y
n Heirs i Difficult. !. ! = 4
Wheaton, III. - Satisfied smiles
/ spread over nine faces in the corridors
Vt the red courthouse here recently, for
\ nine persons, whose lives had been
{sIarrely filled with hardships, knew
VI that within u few weeks they would
HE rich. Rich is the only applicable
s w0rd wealth to these people had been
nothing but a dream. .-'.'$@s p = I: 4 p:
3$ Judge ST. Rathje Of the DuPage
county court had just indicated that
i've sof. the nine were legal heirs to the
S. 600, 600 estate of William P. Cowan,
former president OF the Standard OIL
company Of indiana, who died at his
N wheaton country home in the summer
N VI y 91S. The other -four were hus-
bands and wives of the heirs. VILE =.
Nine Is share =, soo, 600. y ~ :
IN with the ,establtshment Of, heirship
ssiyby the five relatives Of the wealthy oil
man the total number Of heirs who
will receive . share Of the estate is
mine. After expenses. have been de-
8S,1ucted,s according ,toHat torneys, the; es-
tate will total more. than $2500Oo0.
4 I Each of the nine heirs sWil receive
@ssometning Ike 500 600 when the in
$Fheritance taxes are paid. " II -.
Three Of THE heirs are more than
y.seventy years Of ages lone is. ninety,
sthe youngest iss forty fouryears DID,,
&% None Of them renember personally,
&. the man whose death brought them
3 this benefaction. But two ever saw
him. They look upon their inheritance
:as some vague dream of paradise. q
The heirs who ] established their
Claims are VI = ~ .52s+ w.
2s5s william Saxton, seventy-two years
F.old, Eagle, Mich. i -. j..
t \ * Walter Saxton, seventy-two years
EArold, Waucausta, Mich. =.
e Charles Saxton. sixty-eight years
old, Elsie Mich. = 7. ~ -. d.
Mrs. Caroline, Saxton Hart, fifty
= eight years old; Grand Ledge, Mich.
j. Mrs R.B Colby. forty-four years
old, Cadillac, Mich. @t H. & Nv, i
Y William and Walter Saxton z are
twins. William Is married and his
wife was in Wheaton with him., Mrs.
I Colby and Mrs. Hart had their hus-
bands along, too. sSa Lii, ;>, :. .~..ss ~ mi
35& ! otSs cewan l4s,sasse Z 7:i. u. =, Y
!: The other heirs who have estab-
lished sufficient evldencef Of relation
ship to Mr.. Cowan to win an indica-
tion Of equity from Judge Rathje are:
Juds0n Phelps, ninety years old, De-
froit, Mich, ..5 81 n, = II
! Henry 81: stillwell. seventy years
old, Gloversville,, N. 7.
william q. Stillwell, seventy-two
years old, Springfield, Mass. -. :. :, !
Heirs at law of Mrs. Helen Shad-
bolt, Plymouth, N. r, who was ninety
/ i've years old when she died a few
weeks ago. :; ;,. ~. = a.
!, All Of the heirs are cousins-flrst.
! second. or: third. 3 No nearer kin could
( be found by Alfred G. Hoy. public ad-
Ininistrator Of DuPage county. ..
s ssssS The days hearing before Judge
eRathje did not close the case. A few
!, more dispositions; must be taken, a
few more weeks must elapse before
! the tjurist can enter "a decree. But the
Saxton boys are happy. - IL IL + s. H. l..
( III When in 1913 1t was learned that
/. Mr.. Cowan, a successful business man
and one Of the. rich residents of the
Chicago Golf club colony at Wheaton,
( mad died end left no will Wheaton
I wondered. Then 1T was announced
that there were no heirs in this state:
ME- .Cowan's death had preceded her
I husbands, and there were no children
and no. brothers 5or sisters, j. -.
Public Administrators Hoy took Inn
mediate charge sof the estate and APP
pointed Charles w. Hadley and George
Thoma his attorneys. Mr.. Hadley is
state'sa attorney of y DuPage county
ana has d weakness for flaring ties.
Nine attorneys presented him with
new one in court. or,sg. ~ s,.,ss4.
For more than a year the only rela-
/ tiyes Mr.. Hoy could locate were the
Stillwell 4 boys gJudson Phelps, and
Mrs. Shadboldt. = J '-A~>z. ; ~
II II VA few months agosone Of the Sax
!. ton boys, Waiter. read q newspaper
article which referred to Mr.. Cowan's
death and his estate. =. A. few days
later the Saxton claim was entered.
n The Saxtons claimed to be the chill
dren Of two daughters Of Peter Oowan,
4 e. Il < ~ a Ylfg ssssT NJ. : 80
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