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Show WILL CLAIM BIG ESTATE Two San Francisco Girls En Route to Prove Right to Share of $160,000,000 Left By Carl Springer San Francisco. May 15 --The Misses Miss-es Minnie G. and Pearl F. Holmes, manicurists in a big hotel here, are on their way to Sweden to c laim a share of an estate valued at $160,000. I 000. They have told their friends I they are confident they will return 1 millionaires, but Just the same they arranged with the hotel management to hold their Jobs open. The young women will endeavor to prove that they are direct descendants of one Carl ( hrlstopher Springer, who I In 1758 came to this country from I Stockholm. He settled in Delaware and acquired a large tract of land v hi. h now takes In the entire city of i Wilmington. Springer left a will bequeathing his estate to his sons, but the heirs squabbled and one of them torj up the will. Ever since descendants of these 6ons have been trying To obtain ob-tain possession of old Springer's holdings. hold-ings. The Holmes' girls. ' bo were born at Salina, CaL say they are the descendants de-scendants of one of ihe warring sons. Lawrence Bprinfpr |