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Show Long Document Is Filed in a Court Remarkable Will Containing Thousands Thou-sands of Words Turns Up in Chicago. CHICAGO, April 27. Although disposing dis-posing of an estate valued at only $75,000 the will of Dr. J. Chester Lyman, who died March 29th, Is the longest document filed In the history his-tory of the Cooke County Probate court. The instrument goes Into rrflnute details, de-tails, describing each article owned by the testator, Its origin, Us history and Its present whereabouts. The will contains con-tains so many thousands of words that it was reproduced in printed form and In this shape It waB filed In the Probate court, together with the original document. docu-ment. Dr. Lyman was a collector of souvenirs souve-nirs and some of them are considered valuable. A Washington saucer valued at $1000 is bequeathed to the Field Columbian museum, as is a Peruvian image made in bronze. It Is said to be 4000 veara old and was recovered, rrom an ancient mound In the Andes. Another valuable relic Is a "constitutional "constitu-tional cane." It was made from a piece of wood cut from the United States frigate fri-gate Constitution on an evening In 1S33, when "Old Ironsides" sailed Into Boston harbor for the first overhauling after the war of 1812. Another cane was made from a piece of wood taken from the man-of-war Kearsarge in 1S72. Both canes are bequeathed to the army and navy museum at Washington. |