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Show STAliFO?.!) IILL IS. rr.ovEx. 1;; it: jatd ,FAN JCE. Cal.. April The will I codlc. of Mrs. Jane r anford were fcrov'en and admitted to probate today, an 1-letters 1-letters of adiritnlstra'ion were Issued" to ( hnrl'l O. Itt'- 1 '-'vv HorVi-, Joseph Jo-seph D. Grant, i.u.v- itc.d aud 1 noiu-. aa O. Crowthem, aa eecutora, without bonds. The est. te aa rpresntM . by Attornpra 8. F. LleS and Mountfori fn. A.l of ti-.e above- mention e J. ari aiao Charles IZ. Ix-vell, " bert U. 1' iter it-er and T. . L "r. v e examine 1 by the court, and t.. te; vt that at tha date of the will J.:ra. t.onford wbb la full poaseaaloa of her mental powera and physically atrong. . - - The will waa executed July .28, 19, and signed In the presence of Lovell, V. ion. Hooker and Draper, In the library of Mr. Stanford' Ban Francisco home. The codicil codi-cil waa written by Mrs. Stanford herself. In August. 19(4, under .the direction of S. F. Llb. ' By tha terma of tha will J2.0O0.OOO ar left in trust to Ariel Lathrop and descendants de-scendants of D. 8.' IOhrop. her brother; U,0u0,0u0 la trust to her nlecea, Jennie I Iwton end Amy L. Hanson, end tha children of Chrlatlna I Gunning; $1.00,000 to Charles O. Latnrop; 5,000 to various charitable inatituUona of- Ban Francisco and San Jose, and tha remainder of tier aetata to tha trustee of the Leland BUn-ford, BUn-ford, Jr university.. ; ROOSEVELT'S GENEROSITY. The following- story, told by a lady holding hold-ing a position In the Pension office, throws a becoming light upon our new President. A fellow-clerk, with a family dependent upon him, waa in the habit of fretting on sprees, resulting in a gradual owering- of his grade, with a proportionate proportion-ate reduction of salary. At. length,, patience pa-tience ceasing- to be a virtue, he was informed in-formed that the next transgression would be followed by the loss of his place. "In an agony of grtef," my informant says, "his wife came - to me, aaylng: What am I todo. Mrs. Smith? He will just as certainly yield to temptation aa he Uvea. " "The only thing I can suggest," Mrs. 8mith replied, "Is that you try to persuade per-suade him to put himself under treatment for the drink habit." "We have thought of that." was the answer, an-swer, "but It will require both time and money, and even If we were able to pay the fee, what are we to live upon when his salary ceases V "Only arr.uige for him to go," Mrs. Smith urged, "and I will pledge myself for whatever is necessary." That afternoon, accordingly, the lady went to Mr. Roosevelt, then a civil service ser-vice commissioner, and laid the caae before be-fore him, asking that her husband be granted the requisite leave. It was promptly accorded. "And now madam," our future President Presi-dent said. "I infer that this treatment is expensive. What will it cost you?" "A hundred and fifty dollars," was the reply. . . "Then." said Mr. Roosevelt, "will you not let me 'ae your banker?" and turning to his desk, he wrote a check for the amount, "to be paid when convenient." |