| Show SHE HAS HER EYE ON THE MILLIONS firs Bowdoin Proposes to Smash the Davis Will WiJ THE CLAIMS SH SAX S-AX LONG AND BITTER FIGHiU IS INEVITABLE The brent Estate HorrcTer In Spite uf Litigation Has Constantly In crcasocl in Value and Is Worth Frobilily Now at Least Ten Million Mil-lion Dollars Who Is the Next Claimant Special to The Herald BUTTE Mont March 20Mrs Elizabeth Eliza-beth S Bowdoin of Springfield Mass today filed a petition in the district court for the purpose of reopening tho whole famous will contest involving the many millions left behind by the late Judga Davis Mrs Bowdira is a sister of the millionaire and she asks the court to revoke the probate of the old will over which the contest by the Root faction was carried on for a year and which was finally admitted to probate about a year ago under some private arrangement arrange-ment for the division of the testate but which arrangement did not include soma heirsatlaw who had taken no part in the original contest rs Bowdoin was ono o these In her petition she > alleges that the old will executed in 1866 In Salt Creek township Iowa when Davis was a poor man was a forgery that the body of the instrument and the signatures oe Davis and three witnesses were forged The principal point raised in the petition is tho allegation of the fact that I 1SSO Datls executed a will by the provisions of which all former wills were eke but the will was subsequently destroyed r Bowdoin however claims that the fact that it was destroyed did not revive the old will oven If th latter were genuine ama The estate involved in spite of the great litigation has constantly increased in value and is worth probably flO000000 |
