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Show , CLERK WHO GAVE -HAND" TO MINER GETS FORTUNE (By International News Service.) COLORADO SPRINGS Colo. Thoj sudden transition from the humdrum I 'existence of a store clerk on a small Salary to the possession of a fortune-; J of $"(). 000 was too much for Harry Duneana and he fainted when s lawyer I I revealed the Joyful tidings. Duncan living in a local roomlng house, was approached by an attor- ney. 'It our name Harry Duncan'' he asked "Thais' what they called me." answered an-swered Duncan. "Well" and the lawyer struck a I real movie pose "I have the pleasure of gilng notice that a $G0.000 legacj has been left ou." Duncan swooned. About ten years ago. while working 'as a section hand, Duncan "grub-l staked' an old miner, who later made la rich Ftrlke In the Cobalt mining re-gion re-gion of Canada Duncan had com-l pletely forgotten the incident until I approached by the lawyer here, who I Informed Duncan that the miner had died five years ago, leaving a will thar. 1 bequeathed $60,000 to his benefactor. 1 The administrators of the est.it. huve 1 been looking for Duncan since tie miners' death. Duncan has forsaken his clerkship'' In a local store and eays he will use 1 some of the fortune In a trip around : the world and that h will never for-'1 get the blblcal Injunction about "cast-'' ing bread upon the water ' oo |