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Show I ' ; : MILLIONS IN IT. The struggle for the millions left by 1 the late A. J. Davis, of Butte, Montana. I lias assumed a most interesting and dramatic phase. It was supposed ' the millionaire bachelor had died intestate, and there at once arose a bitter contest between his brother John A. Davis, and a nephew, Henry A. Root, to get control con-trol of the estate as administrator. Tho nephew was defeated, and took an appeal ap-peal to the supremo court. Tho case was set for hearing today. Yesterday the case took a sensational turn by the presentation of an alleged will of the defendant, leaving the estate to John A. Davis, and providing life annuities to the two illegitimate children of the deceased and their mother. Could there be anything any-thing more dramatic than this episode! The will, whether spurious or genuine, ! has been produced just in the nick of lime. Hut the document will be viewed with a great deal of sutpicion, aud subjected sub-jected to the closest investigation. This litigation is liable to wattle the entire estate, and if the claimants wis-h to realize anything substantial from it they better "get together" and compromise com-promise the light ami agree upon a division di-vision of the spoils. |