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Show ME1G BOOK IS CAUSE0F SIIII KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 7. As a sequel to the flnrllns of a notation Talntly sornwled in a musty memorandum memo-randum book out of thebottom of an old trunk two months ago, suit for $250,000 against the administrators of the estate of W S. Stratton of Colo-rado Colo-rado was filed In the circuit court to-dav to-dav by Miss Bonnie Ethel Steele of this city. Stratton died in 1902, leaving leav-ing $15,000,000 to charity The notation found among her father's fa-ther's papers by Mlns Steele read: "I urn tho owner this date of SO.OOQ shares of stock In the Amazon mine." Was a Partnor of Stratton. Miss Steole's father, Charles W. Steele, one of the pioneer miners of Colorado and son of the first governor of that state, died In 1SS4, leaving his daughter $100,000. He had been a partner of W. S Stratton. According to Miss Stcolc and attorneys attor-neys who went with her to Investigate the Amazon shares, Miss Steel Is on-titled on-titled to 40,000 shares In tho Portland mine, which wore to be turned over to her father in return for the 80,000 Amazon shares oo |