Show MILLIONS IN SIGHT TWO IOWA WOMEN TO INHERIT BIG FORTUNES bachelor uncles amassed in australia which now awaits distri distribution but lon E eleven I 1 even to share in wealth dubuque la ia the sudden transition of the families of mrs john R needham and mrs airs james finney of at this city from all al but poverty to opulence is ahe the prospect that recent developments have brought about by the death of two uncles these women will shortly come into nearly worth of property left them by adventurous brothers of their parents who back during the days of the mining craze left the old howe home and made their way to australia where they struck it rich amassing a fortune of attorneys are at work on the case proving the claim the brothers both of whom are arc dead remained uni unmarried narried contenting themselves with the life in the australian bush and the accumulation of the vast fortune that now awaits distribution like a fairy tale is the story of the romantic career of the goodman brothers who left iowa in may alay 1852 bound for australia to try for a fortune and whose heirs now residents of dubuque and vicinity are about to inherit a fortune of on february 29 the heirs of the deceased wealthy miners residents in spokane received word by cable from counsel of the family who had been sent to sydney australia to look up the matter that he had been able to locate the holdings of the men and that a fabulous fortune was in waiting for distribution among the heirs in america ca notification was immediately made to james finney formerly of dubuque now of cassville Cass ville WIs and he departed for spokane to hold counsel with the members of the family there thera and to meet tho family attorney who ho will arrivo arrive thero there from australia Awa with the testimonials ho he has secured proving the claims of the family to tho the wealth of tho the goodman Good nitin brothers of course I 1 do not remember my uncle who loft here in 1852 said mrs airs mary needham of 52 needham placa when seen at her little home but I 1 have heard stories of the adventurous young follows fellows who went out to seek fortune in their youth and about whose lives thero there hung much of the mysterious and romantic to us children my aly mother who was waa a slater sister to lawrence and owen goodman delighted in talking of her ter brothers and often have we heard tales of how onci and may day in 1852 they started for california with a team of oxen they were bound for the land of australia and their fortune it took tho the boys boya all summer to reach california thero there they set sail for australia and with a fow few exceptions the family did not hear front from thero them the last letter was waa received in 1876 when my uncle wrote to mother the letter was from owen stating that uncle lawrence had been killed in a mine and for 24 hours was burled buried under tinder tons of earth owen the of tho the two boys died 20 years ago from that time until a few years ago wo we heard beard nothing then my cousin john finney of spokane wash was started on an investigation and eight months BRO ago he having died hla his wife sent her attorney to australia to determine the facts in the case we have had no notification from my brother james who left for spokane but we expect word any day now telling us exactly how things aland in australia I 1 believe the claims are right the property had been confiscated by a partner of the uncles but the counsel from spokane has been able to secure quit claims to all the property it has taken a long time but I 1 belleme it will come out right yet I 1 am sure it la is a relief to know what became of the uncles who left here so long ago years and years ago one of my uncles wrote to the finney boys tell ing them to come to australia that he would give each a farm and stock the saine that he would pay all their expenses and start them on the road to success but they refused and we heard nothing of them afterward we will soon hold a family reunion in cassville Cass ville where other relatives live there are 11 of us to share in the tor for tune of it Is claimed is ours by right of inheritance my mother died in 1886 and it la Is a regret that she might t not have known what became of the young fellows lows who went away in their youth to seek and find their fortune she was waa very proud of them and it was a do delight of our childhood to gather about her knee and hear her narrate stories of the two brave young boys who went to seek their fortune in the unknown land |