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Show ! I CHICAGO GIRL HEIRESS i j TO FORTUNE IN NEVADA J ; Stcnojraplicr May Inherit a Part of a Twenty MH- lion ' Dallar Estate . la Vlrglala City. CHICAGO, Sept Id Although Daisy Hilton, a twenty-year-old stenogf&pher, has every reason to believe she la an heiress to part of an estate of $20,000.- 000, she has not ceased clicking the keys fit her typewriter In James B. Clow & Sons' office, 350 Harrison street, and she Is much distressed, by the notoriety the legacy has thrust upon her. The cause of Miss Hilton's perturba- tlon is an advertisement in a 'Boston paper to which the attention of her parents par-ents in Emden, Me, was recently , directed. di-rected. It is as follows: "WANTED Information leading to . the discovery of the i heiress of John Thompson Hilton, deceased, of Virginia City, Nev.. whose estate, estimated tn value at $20,000,000. is 'not distributed. Heirs are believed to reside In New England." En-gland." 1 "John Thompson Hilton is my father's fa-ther's cousin.", admitted Miss Hilton, when she conquered her shyness, "and I suppose I am to share In the estate on that account, but there may be twenty people between me and the fortune. "I have been In Chicago about a year, I living with friends of my family, at 3834 Wabash avenue. My folks formerly lived in JanesvUIe, Wis., and it was while visiting relatives in Maine that I their attention was directed to the ad- t heirs of my father's cousin. Father's name is Guetavus Hilton and I have always al-ways known he had -a wealthy cousin out West." V With that the stenographer, who may be rolling In riches within a few weeks, returned to her task of informing a customer of James B. Clow V Sons that theirs "of recent date is received and contents noted." 4 The -wealth or the Nevada millionaire la said to consist of ranches,-mining property and timber lands in various parts of Nevada. '... |