Show WENT AFTER LEE MILLIONS Arthur 0 Lee Got as Far as Missouri and Learned His Attorney Was Quarantined in New York Arthur O Lee of Tanaca Nov 01 passed through the city Saturday on ills way home after an unsuccessful trip In most of a few million dollars alleged to bo coming to his family It Is a revival of the somewhat threadbare thread-bare story of the Edwards estate in Now York which has been duly exploited ex-ploited 1 from time to time In the newspapers news-papers Briefly the story is I that one Jona than Edwards squatted on several acres of humid on Manhattan island when building lots were worth about j one glass bead per front foot When the town begun to grow he leased his tlound for the peiiod of ninetynine years and then I died The tenants could I not find his heirs no they kept putting the stipulated rental in the hall to tint credit of the estate where It drew Interest In 1S7 the story runs the State oC New York took steps to escheat the property and did go so far an to sell the I laud which had been covered with vast blocks and other valuable improvements im-provements Then the JLdwardscs began be-gan to t appear 1 on tho t srone with all their sisters and cousins and aunts and family Hlblcs to prove their descent from the original squatter I Is al leged that ont branch of the family reached a compromise about seven years ago accepting the modest sum I of 513500000 In satisfaction of all their o claims I I These purported facts were communicated I commu-nicated lo the Lees and Atchisons of Panaca by a New York lawyer giving his name as Clark He had evidence he wrote that thc were the lineal descendants de-scendants of the lute Jonathan oC which he also was another one and if they would contribute enough Jointly or severally to pay certain small legal expenses he would proceed at n once lo make the State of New York and the occupants of the ground disgorge According to the Clark genealogy about forty Panacans were entitled l to a slice of the fortune which was to be divided all told among about 100 heirs Tho Panaca claimants levied an assessment as-sessment and raised the amount required re-quired by the sagacious Mr Clark That was live years ago Since that time legal expenses have been cropping clOIpl UP with annoying persistency but they have been met by h the hopeful helm On several occasions they have had the million Just within their grasp and then I Clarks pipe would go out nnl I was very aggravating A few weeks ago A O Lee decided lo go to New York to see for himself Just what the ancestral estate consisted con-sisted of He stopped In Missouri to visit I some relatives who are also num here among the elect While be was there a letter came from Clark saying that a very contagious epidemic was raging In his part of the city and that he was quarantined Mr Lee was welcome wel-come to come If he wanted to the letter let-ter added but he would have to take his chances of being quarantined for an Indefinite I length of time Mr Lee did l not want any smallpox thrown in with his ancestral estate so he postponed his trip to New York until un-til the lifting of the quarantine and Panaca will have to wait a while longer lonccr for tIne paved streets electric lights trolley I cars rolling mil and public parks that the heirs have planned to erect when hey come Into their owner own-er raFhor Into their ancestors own The latest advices from Mr Clark were to the effect that he had arranged a compromise by which 53500000 was to he paid over and divided among the 100 heirs which would give tQ each 35000 if it were to be divided equally but the division would of course be made according to the position of the claimants on the genealogical tree Some of the alleged heirs have grown skeptical as n a result of thelr numerous disappointments and would welcome an opportunity to compromise for 1 cent on the dollar |