Show I SNOW FAMILY AND ESTATE rt Why the Late L te President of the Church Died Poor Was Providing For Dependents D Minnie J Snows Allowance Division of Property LIVER G Ct SNOW who hO was ap apS OLIVER O 0 S pointed pinte special administrator of ot the estate of the lute President Lurito n o Snow no nose preparations to go S before beCore the district distrct court and se secure secure secure cure a distribution oi c the th personal pernal holdings lg of the president valued lue at about abut io found in his private safe utter after his hl death deth dethA AM As A is Ia welt veU known the president died intestate tate From one who stood close closet to t him It ix is learned lerne that he had a strong aversion averion to the publicity of ot his private business affairs and rather than have the matl matter go into court for probate he chose tho the plan of assign assigning assIgnIng ing his bis money and negotiable stocks and bonds to his hla heirs instead of mak making makIng making ing n a wn will The president considered his hE and dependent children his heirs heir Provided Pox For It I Is said Id by bJ those thoe close to the late I president that his ambition second to I lifting the church from debt was to tomake make hie h hI wives and ai ah dependent children II independent for life He expressed himself to that effect as recently as two months ago Ho was supporting members of oC his family in Inch clr ch Ung ng three thre or er four widowed children au their children who had returned to his shelter sheler Bath Bach Ech one of oC these daughters daughter and his wives received 20 a month In addition additon to household help hell and farm tar products product which President Snow also as provided Although tIle tho tu president stood at the te th head hend of sixteen institutions until recently none of oC them paid him any an large income His share from front the Z C M H 11 I In fact fact amounted only oaly 01 to 20 per annum up to t six months montha ago Under tinder these conditions i ithe the th president was rot tot laying up any I surplus means As times grew gew better beter and President Snows Snow s income Increased he expressed o the hope that in two yews years from now If I he ho would be bc spared that long he would have saved enough to provide comfortable annuities for Cor his three surviving wives and dent children S Some weeks ago aso alO President t Snow was vas reading of oC the death of D H Peery Peer of oC Ogden and he then thep took under consid consideration erton the advisability of o making a awill will vilI wf but decided finally th that U he had nothing to will wi that his means were wore I limited I r will l endorse what I have to my heirs as I receive It he h e remarked and my will wU will wf be In those signa I tures when I am gone The Te president had started making a 8 list of Qt his per par personal personal effects including including hIs bis Is cane cane wat watch wath h etc when he was taken Ill m Expected to Live It I was at this late lat day that President dent dont d nt Snow began began making preparations prel for the distribution of his property He expected to live lve some Iome years year He was imbued with wih the belief b lef that he had a work to the freeing of the te church from debt and that Jt It t would woul take him several years longer In this way nay wa his associates account for forthe the fact that thal only a a portion porton of the tle contents cop tents of ot otha has ha safe ste had been assigned He had started the w work ork only a few days das prior to his last Illness Une Among the hold holdings holdIngs holdIngs ings that were assigned appeared stock of t value alue and bank notes to his bis three Wives and a parcel of ot money to one of his unmarried daughters A parcel of ot church scrip amounting to 60 was divided equally among amonE his wives and there were other indications that he had hod ha intended making the distribution equal e ual What hat was found In the safe represented the he savings of oC President Snow since Ince when he divided his Brigham City property among his wives and gave them each a 8 home Minnie mnnie Snows Allowance Mrs rs Minnie J 1 Snow still sti owns her home homp in Brigham City It I has been rented since the removal of the president president president dent to Salt Lake Lk but until a a short time ago ao Mrs Snow received no ben benefit benent edt ent from the rental The church fur furnished furnished furnished the Bee Hive house as the official of cial dat residence of oC the president president but It I was kept up out of f the presidents private private vate income Mrs Snow was allowed only 50 a a month half halt of ot it in tithing scrip to keep up the Bee Hive and out of this amount came the support of ot three tree children The Other wives re cc received received 20 2 per month in addition additon to some sonic supplies as before stated and had no children depending upon them tem Mrs Minnie J Snows friends believe beleve that a grave injustice has hI been done her as welt well wel as the president by recent reports Insinuating that she had re received re received echoed more than her rightful share of the estate Mrs Snow has haa announced her Int n tion ton of o remaining in Sat Salt Lake as her children are In school or located here her She contemplates setting belling her Brigham BrEham City home after ater a a while and building In lii II the meantime a suitable location is being sought for a temporary real resi dence The family ma leave the Bee Hive within thirty days das |