UNCLAIMED MILLIONS.
FORTUNES
UC
IN THE HANDS OF
ADMINISTRATORS.
PUB-
Struce Beanhci for Heirs to Larce
Fortunrs In Brooklyn A Strange DIs
mppeannca The Fund In Charge of
the State Treasurers Keeps Increasing.
Speaking rtraghly there is at the pres
ent time over j.UOO,000 in hard cash in
the hands of the various state treasurers
in this country awaiting the claim of
legal heirs. This large amount has been
deposited -with the treasurers from time
to time by public administrators. Of
this f5,000,000 the New York state treas
urer has about $250,000, and although
he pays out now and then certified claims
from the administrative fund it keeps
steadily increasing in a ratio with the
population of the state.
The public administrator of Brooklyn
. furnishes the following cases from his
record books: , . ; .
Thomas Wilson sold newspapers in
: Brooklyn's Twentieth ward for a gener-
ation. His route was an aristocratic
- one, comprising such streets as Clinton
&nd Clermont avenues, in which are the
homes of millionaires. He peddled his
wares in all sorts of weather, appeared
on the streets in rain and shine every
day and far into the night, and even
, made a feeble attempt to brave the fury
of the . big blizzard of March 12, 1888.
Be had no friends, no confidants, no as
sociations; and he lodged in the attic of
a miserable tenement ' house. One day
:. in the spring of 1889 his legs refused to
carry mm along his route, and he went
for succor and shelter to the Brooklyn
hospital.
Here he was warned that he had but a
. short time to live and was told to com
municate with his friends, if he had
any. Old Tom shook his head negatively
ana aiea inai nignt wiuiout making a
sign. Five bank books were found under
his pillow, showing three or four thou
sand dollars to his credit in different in
stitutions. The administrator could learn
nothing about him in the banks, where
he had told different stories about him
self. It is thought he was of Swedish
origin and that bis real name was Nil
' son, not Wilson.
THE CASE OF LAUGIER.
Then there was Joeeph Langier, a
name common enough in the south of
, -France, in Marseilles especially. Langier
was also a solitary man, living or,
rather, grubbing in an Atlantic avenue
garret. He ' paid the janitor a dollar a
month for his miserable room.' He wen t
-out and he came in, Bpoke to nobody and
answered questions by shaking or nod
ding his head. One day he went forth
for the last time staggered and fell at
. the next corner. $vaa taken into a saloon,
thence conveyed in an ambulance to
Long Island College hospital, where he
' died after a few hours.
In the pockets of his coat were found
bonds, mortgages and bank books worth
$17,000 to the owner, also a will drawn
up in excellent legal phraseology and
written in a beautiful hand. His signa
ture was affixed to the will, but it lacked
the names of witnesses. So careful had
he been in preparing the instrument
that he affixed an explanatory para
graph, underlined in red ink. In a codi
cil he revokes the will, so that he really
died intestate. Rumor says Langier's
heir is a nephew living in Marseilles, a
sister's son, whom, if the administrator
could locate, would inherit $17,000.
1 Wilnam Cato is another of the great
intestate for whose heirs the adminis-
. trator is looking. Cato was no tramp or
news vender. He was a marine in the
service of the United States, and had
been one for such a length of time that
lie had only a vague memory of what he
had been before. His comrades had an
idea that ho was Scotch, and that is all
they could tell about him. He died sud
denly while still in the service, leaving
$1,000 or so he had saved out of his small
Cresham lived on Third ave
nue, near Forty-sixth street. South
Brooklyn, and was in good circum
stances. His wife died in the spring of
1889, and the loss drove him crazy. A
week later he committed suicide. He
left a good deal of property to which bis
little 4-year-old daughter was heiress.
His brother, a well to do New York car
riage builder, was the legal guardian of
the little girl, but there happened just
then to be in the house a sister of the
child's mother. She was on a visit from
Ireland, and had arrived just in time to
see her sister die. The night of the day
Cresham committed suicide the aunt
took the little girl stealthily out of . her
bed and out of the house, went over to
Hew York, and on the morning follow
ing sailed for Queenstown in the Um
bria. Mr. Cresham, the uncle and legal
guardian, reported the theft to the po
lice, and they cabled to Queenstown to
have the aunt .arrested on her arrival in
that port. Now, it happened that owing
to a great storm the Umbria could not
put in at Queenstown, and bo went di
rectly on to Liverpool, where no police
were waiting for a handsome lady of the
name of Miss Crowe and her 4-year-old
niece. Miss Crowe arid the child are
still in Europe, and the legal fight has
not yet been decided. New York Tele
gram. '
An Vglj Habit.
I wonder what saccharine or succulent
qualities . inhere in -wooden toothpicks
that bo many persons cling so persistently
to those unlovely little instruments long
after they have performed the service for
which they were designed. On any ele
vated railway train onels sure to see one
or two men with toothpicks protruding
from their lips, as if to advertise to the
world a recent breakfast. - Not all of
those who make this exhibition are ill
dressed or boorish, and one is left to con
' jecturein vain why a particularly private
portion of the toilet is thus thrust upon
public attention. New York Star.
It Is Hard.
"Why don't you shave yourself and
save time and money?'
"Because I can't bear to cut an old ac
quaintance." Life.
Parlor Car Porter's Experience,
Thaddeus Rich, the former valet of
John L. Sullivan, when that gentleman
was sporting editor of The Illustrated
News, had five years experience on the
Chicago trains of the New York Central.
"I did fairly well with the company,"
said Thaddeus; "I had only $15ainonh
salary, but my taps made it up to about
$30. I made a good many friends. Iwa3
treated with especial kindness by the
Vanderbilts, Mr. Armour, of Chicago;
CoL Harker, police commissioner of Cin
cinnati, and I don't know how many oth
ers. The most liberal traveler I ever met
was Mrs.' Williams, of Cambridge, Mass,
I mean Mrs. Williams, the sister of
George Lewis, the Lewis who is celebrat
ed for giving diamonds away. This lady
not only tips the porter but tips the drrv
er, the guard, the fireman, the cook, the
waiter, and every servant on the tram.
not with paltry nickels or. a dollar, but
with $5 bills and sometimes tens.
"Speaking of liberal people I mustn't
forget to mention John L. Sullivan. He
never gave me less than $5 for blacking
zus ooots on tne cars, ile often gave me
more. Especially one morning when he
bad jumped on me. You see he was talk
ing in . his sleep and rolling about rest
lessly. I went toward him and tried to
make him comfortable. The moment I
touched him, however, he leaped up and
we Dotn reu 1 or a heap on the floor, and
with such a racket that everybody wak
ened up. John L. woke up, too, and was
much disgusted when he surveyed the
circus, as the bedclothes had come with
him from the top berth. I gathered my
self together the best way I could and
crept to a corner, while John L. got back
into bed and was soon sleeping again. In
the morning when he left the car he
handed me a $20 bilL" New York
World.
Took Aivay tUe darvard Man's Breath.
Two men were walking down town to
business the other day. One of them
was a Harvard man. The other was
graduated " at a most venerable and yet
somewhat , formidable rival of that uni
versity whose motto is "Lux et Veritas."
They had arrived at City Hall park, and
Were picking their doubtful way through
the crowd which was surging between
the elevated station and Frankfort street.
Suddenly the Yale man exclaimed:
"Hold on a minute, old fellow! I want
to speak to a friend.'
The Harvard man turned and saw his
friend in the act of shaking hands with
a line looking, middle aged man who
"wore a long silken beard, and whose sun-
browned face and powerful frame showed
the good effect of many vacation moons
spent upon the wave and in the depths
or tne rorest. The Yale man continued
in earnest conversation with the hand
some looking man for a few moments,
and then, after a leave taking which was
almost Drotnerly on both sides, joined
ms comraae, .who said: "
"Who was that man?"
"iiur saia ms menu; "aidn t you
recognize him? Why, we sat near him
and his family on the grand stand at the
football championship game up at New
Haven in 1880. That was the famous
'.Professor B. W.' He was my division
omoer once, and is one of the most popu
lar instructors at Yale."
"Well, that is just like you fellows,"
saia tne other; "but." continued he.
should just like to see what would nan-
pen to a Harvard man if he were to stop
a proiessor or tnat university in a crowd
as you did Professor W. that's all"
New York Tribune.
Ambulatory Rails.
A Sst. Louis civil engineer says the
rails on the St. Louis bridge were never
stationary, but constantly crept to the
east; that is, in the direction of the
heaviest travel. The rate of progress,
he said, was about 260 feet in the year,
or would be if the rails w ru permitted
to creep as they pleased, which, of course,
they are not permitted to do.
It reminded him of a hill in southwest
Missouri, over which a turnpike road
was constructed,- and, do what they
would, the people could not keep the
road up and down the sides of that hill
in good condition. The stones would
creep to the bottom, and in six months
the road would be as bad as ever. They
finally had to take up the gravel and
macadam and replace them with good
sized blocks of rough stone. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Pennsylvania Stogies.
Their origin is worth recording. It
appears that in the old days the drivers
of the Cpnestoga wagons, so common
years ago on our national pike, used to
buy very cheap cigars. To meet this
demand a small cigar manufacturer in
Washington. Pa., whose name is lost to
fame, started in to make a cheap "roll
up" for them at four for a cent These
became very popular with the drivers
and were at first called Conestoga cigars,
since, by usage, corrupted into "stogies"
and "tobies." It is now estimated that
Pennsylvania and West Virginia pro
duce about 200,000,000 stogies yearly,
probably all for home consumption.'
New York Telegram. .
Wonders of Selenee.
Lady Do you take instantaneous pho
tographs? Photographer Yes, madam;
I
can
the
pnotograph a humming bird
wing or a swallow in its flight.
Lady I want my baby's
taken.
Photographer Yes, madam,
little fellow ready, and I will
on
picture
Get the
prepare
the chloroform. New York Weekly.
Catching- Kstt with a Decoy.
A mechanical decoy rat has reached
the patent office. It is made to resemble
a rat with a piece of cheese stuck on a
little spear, which projects just beyond
its nose.. When a real rat nibbles the
cheese the spear darts forward about six
inches and the animal is impaled. Lon
don Tit-Bits.
A Close Approach. '
Wife You look worried; harried, in
fact.
Husband Well, I've not been har
rowed exactly, but I've been shaved by
poor barber. Good News.
North Dalles to the Front.
. The sale of lots continue to increase
each day as contracts are eloped out for im
provements, lu a few days active
work will begin towards erecting several
fine dwellings. Several prominent gen
tlemen of The Dalles and Portland will
erect residences at North Dalles.
' Mr. O. D. Taylor, President & General
Manager of the Interstate Investment
Co., with Mr. S. L. iSkeels will leave for
the east in a few days with a view of
meeting capitalists and closing out for
manufactories.
Two railroads are now ' headed , for
North Dalles and the coming spring will
make the Real Estate market in North
Dalles lots lively.
You will never again get lots as cheap
as you can for the next few days, for the
demands and the company will advance
them soon. We would like to see every
one of our citizens make money in lots
at North Dalles.
Many letters continue . to arrive from
the Sound making inquiries and in most
cases purchasing.
We confidently expect to see not less
than fifty houses underway by the be
ginning of the new year. Mark what
we say. Lots will advance rapidly at
North Dalies.
For further information address O. D.
Taylor, President & General Manager of
the Interstate - Investment Co., The
Dalles, Or.
Charles E. Dunham,
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Brushes, Combs,
Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Articles.
Iii Great Yarietv.
Pure Brandy, Wines and
liiquofs fot JVIediei
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Physicians' Prescriptions Accurately
Compounded.
Gor. Union and Second Sts., The Dalles
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Old Qerapia
FRANK ROACH, Propr.
The place to get the Best Brands ofj
WINES, LIQUORS
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S EX T DOOR TO THE. J
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Day and Monthly Boarders,
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Soots and Shoes
Hade to Older, and
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Abstracts of, and Information Concern
ing Land Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Rent,
Parties Looking for Houses in
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Buiqe Location,
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of
LeaJini Fire Insurance Coipaiies,
And Will Write Insurance for
on all
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Correspondence Solicited. All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,
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Opera House Block, - The Dalles, Or,
"SflJVIPIlE KOOJVIS,"
Corner Second and Union Streets.
CHf?IS BlLiliS, Prop.
The Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars
ALWAYS ON SALE
Mr. Bills will aim to supply bis customers with
the best in bis line, both
oi imported and do-
mesne goods.
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a '
ZjuhoIx Counlov,
In Connection With His Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
Hot Coffee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and Fresh Oysters. .
Convenient to the Passenger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner of Madison.
Also a
Branch Bakery, California
Orange Cider, and the
Best Apple Cider.
If you want a good lunch, give me a call.
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
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city, and adjacent country, to assist in.
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing'
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
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criticism of political matters, as in its
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