The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-17
RANCHER LEAVES
 FIFTEEN MILLIONS
 TO GRANDDAUGHTER

Fort Worth. Texas, July 17-By provision of the will of the late Burk Burnett, picturesque millionaire cat tlenaan, Anne Burnett, his twenty year-old granddaughter. becomes one of. the wealfhiest girls in America queaths to her the bulk of an estate valued at more than s15,00O,000.
 Tom L. Burnett, son of the far famed catttIeman, was cut off. with amount, the will provides. shall be forfeited in the event the son con tests the probation of the document. At no time during his life, the in nett have any voice in the manage ment of the vast estate.
 The -scorn of his father was brought down on the head of young Burnett, it is said by friends close to the family, because of his unre- strained '-wildness." Tom, say con- fidants of the family, refused to all ways follow the wishes of his father. He also is a rancher and recently was divorced from his wife, formerly Lucil Mulhall, a professional horse woman who takes part in rodeo shows. The younger Burnett's mar rsage to Miss Mulha1 is. understood to have been opposed by his father.
 Burnett Was Capitalist.
 Captain Burnett, who died at the age of A, was a rancher, banker and capitalist In the early seventies he was a cowboy without funds and started his herd on borrowed money. When he died he owned three great Texas ranches, including the -Four Six."o He also owned two Fort Worth skyscraperS and stock in many banks and other corporations. During the World War he put S200,0o0 in Liberty bonds
 The elder Burnett married a daugh- ter of a. leading Fort Worth banker and later married again. The wealthy S1C oF iT7I 1i- will do1 hot shall have no voice or part in the management of the Burnett estates. He will not even get the s25,00O an nually if he protests or tries to break the will, reads another provision.
 About eight years ago Captain Bur- nett was tried and acquitted in King County for the killing of a ranch employe. He was said to have fired in self-defense. He was a dead shot with a pistol and rifle.
 Only during the last year a. report had been going the rounds that il was not Burnett who shot the man but friend who was with Burnett Burnett, according to the story, real ized he would stand a better chance grabbed the gun from his hands and when people entered the washroom where the shooting occurred the cap tain. gun in hand, declared that il was he who fired the shot.
 EndowS City Park
 Burnett left a maintenance fund O. $50,000, for a park he recently do mated to the city. Sisters, nieces, other relatives and friends were left sum: up to S10.OO0 in cash and several olC ranch hands were remembered. Foul of these ranch employees were giver !. s5.O00 each, two of whom, :n addi --fon, will draw S100 a month for life Ills secretary was left s5,0O0.
 Captain Burnett was a typica Texas cowboy and rancher. Whe1 younger he braved all the danger of frontier life, shot buffaIoes. Tough Indians, and at the same time kep adding to his fortune. He was bor1 in Bates County, Mo. in 1S49, anC his family removed to Texas when h. was boy.
 In 1871 Burnett. then hardly pas his majority. took 1900 head of cattl to Abilene. Kan. He had a dozel 'snalr' ranch of 3O,00O acres at Rurl Station. He became a close friend O Chief Quanah Parker and from him after negotiations with the Govern rnsnt. leased 300.00O acres at six ant half cents an acre. Later he bough the big -Four Six ranch
 In 1914 Burnett added the Dixo, Creek ranch of 1O7,O0O acres to hi holdings. When he died his rancI property totalled nearly 5OO,OOO acres all stocked with pure bred cattle H was fortunate in oil well as cattle some of the biggest Texas well hay:n been drilled on his property.
 Captain Burnett remained in clos touch with his ranch and bushes affairs almost up to the day he die6 Administrators of the property hay announced they expect no contes over his will.