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Show RAG PICKER'S HOARD, Great Falls. Mont.. April 14. Stephen VVhitbeck. a. I'nion veteran and pensioner, today found money and securities aggregating aggre-gating $14.K sewed into the clothing of his wife, who died in the citv March S. Mrs. Whftbeek made a living picking up rags and working at odd jobs and the family had seemed nearly destitute. The old man discovered this, wealth while packing his wife's' clothing into a box anout to be . -sent . . by a local church to the poor in Alaska. Mrs.' 'Whit-beck 'Whit-beck was a, sister of JohnMaguire of Butte, veteran theatrical manager, and well known on the coast. Whitbeck has made 'applieation-r'to - the court for , an order appointing, him- administrator of the estate. ; '-. -. ' -. '- |