The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-08-05

right 10 benefit should the
claims prove valid. lie contends he Is the true
and legal great grandson Of the man who. II Is
alleged. owned the $so0.oOo.ooo tract OF real es-
tate In The Quaker city However Mr. Baker Is
In no hurry
Now II you will look on page $40 of this
book" he said. taking down copy Of the bio
graphical and Genealogical History OF Indiana"
'yon will discover my fathers name. II shows
TINT my fathers grandfather was Jacob Baker
and that he WAS born Ia Ludwlgsburg. Baden,
Germany. He came to America and settled In
P.nnsyvsnia
III this Jacob Baker who acquired nll that
property In Philadelphia. | have many papers
and records and documents to prove IT, There
viii be no trouble about connecting up my rcia-
tioaship. There are II true grandchildren.
We VIII prove hership."
MIR. Baker snd that his family several years
nso collected fund and had the entire history
Of Jacob Baker traced even to his parents
tate IN Germany.
a cousin OF mine has all OF those records"
said SIR. Baker They viii be produced"
IF You get the money. what them"
well, have long time TO live. YOU know"
be said. I'm take my daughter. Emma. aud her
husband, and Wen have little trip. But there's
no use worrying about that now There is no
hurry"
Some of the Baker heirs arr more impatient
about II than chicngo's MIR Baker. This il but nat
ural inasmuch as Colonel Haker appears to have
been the family head from whom sprnng mul
utndinous progeny. His heirs to be- seat
tered through every state In the Union and every
province of Canada
one day recently the bureau OF legal aid de-
partment OF public welfare OF Philadelphia me-
curiing 10 the chief Ut that bureau ROMAN IIass.
rick received eight inquiries relative To the Baker
estate In NIL correspondence II IL represented
as an estate worth more than SSuO.UU0OO0 con.
ssting OF ESQ acres In the business center OF Phil.
sdelphiu, Some add all the hand occupied By the
city OF Chcothe. o.
The eight inquiries cited having been re-
c-ived on single recent day came, respectively,
FROM knnsns city. Mo,; Alton. la, Dubuque, la;
Salt Lake city, Utah okamogan. Wash. Los
Angeles Cal, Lebanon Pa, and Tacoma, Wash.
The Inquiries we're penned. so,ne OF them
embossed paper. others on mere scraps of paper,
THE great majority Of persons who write
10 In. mayor Of Philadelphia or 10 the director
of the department of public welfare relative to
Colonel Bakers holdings," said AIR. ilassrick,
shave visions Of easy wealth.
Some are more cre,ulouS than others Re-
Gently There came To me from Portland, ore, an
inquiry accompanied by newspaper clipping
which told OF the marvellous good luck of n eiti-
Esn of that town The article spoke Of his has'
nE founded an automobile school ON capital
of 81 50 ntr YEARS ago aud added. To-day he Is
heir to millions This alleged fortunate descend
ant Of the nov famous Colonel Haker did not
know exactly how large slice he was
10 get ont Of This estate. But. with hope burn
Ing In his breast, he settled np his Affairs In Port
land and started for Philadelphia TO cla'm the
gold that hc though, there awaited hun
From Alton. la. came an inquiry from per
whn wants To get in touch With the at
torney. or attorneys. handling the billion dollar
Raker estate This Is of the highest ap-
pFai@-ineuts Of the value of this estat. that has
reached the oniee Of the bureau,
"A western newspaper printed general state
about tits Baker estate which Was trans
nittei from tie East aud Immediately there