Show COiViSTOCKS HEIRS Ohio People Will Inherit the Old Prospectors Wealth A dispatch from Springfield 0 says The heirs to the fortune of S B Comstock Com-stock the deceased prospector and mining min-ing man were established today by I means of diligent search which has II I been made through the Bibles In possession I pos-session of families connected with the I Comstock family in this part of Ohio I S B Comstock was an early pioneer or the far west and the Comstock lodes I of fabulous richness in the 60s was I named after him On September 12 1873 he was prospecting in Montana with a party He returned to camp one evening after a day In the hills and r was sitting about the r5tI He j ft l r5 suddenly left his companions and going go-ing a little distance from the camp to where the horses were tied and committed com-mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol After < the old miners death it was I r 4 discovered that he possessed a fortune I of upwards of 100000 variously invested I I 1 I vested In securities and bank deposits I It was not until last year that E B I I Comstock a hardware and implement dealer located in one of the small i i towns of western Pennsylvania I l learned j c I of the death of S B Comstock He knew that his family was connected con-nected with the family or Caleb Comstock Com-stock the trapper whose son S B Comstock was No heirs appeared to claim the dead prospectors fortune E B Comstock emiJoyed a lawyer to I handle the case Ohio the early hbme I I I of the Comstock family in this country i i coun-try was visited and evidence found In an old family Bible today which establishes I I estab-lishes E B Comstock the Pennsylvania 1 Pennsyl-vania hardware merchant as the heir 1 I to S B Comstocks fortune I I I 4n L 3e |