Show An Interesting Romance Pit burg 20A few days ago members mem-bers nf a family named Gillespie received news from California of a large fortune left them The details are somewhat romantic The story is as follows In 58 James McKee a brother of Mrs Gillespie came to America from Ireland Instead of having a bout with fate in the east he immediately went to the far west and finally settled at Stockton California How he obtained the nucleus of his fortune is not stated but he eventually event-ually stocked a sheep ranch and engaged in the sheep breeding business till hit death Years rolled by and the country became more thickly populated and the eity of Stockton grew about him His wealth increased year by year and from I independence be merged into affluence worth about 300000 Be remained a bachelor all his life and died two weeks ago leaving the entire fortune to Chas and Emma Gillespie his sitters children chil-dren I |