The Archive · 1905

General, Acting Judicially

ne Esrare or Cranence L, Fiske.

The petitioner, E. Kempffer, begs leave to file this petition in the above ca now pending in this Court, and respectfully shows.

That your petitioner is a citizen of the United States and at present resides at Shanghai, China.

That on or about the 15th day of March, 1905, Clarence E. Fiske, a citizen of the Unite. States died at Shanghai, Chins, leaving an estate within the jurisdiction of this Court, and consisting, as your petitioner is informed and believes of personal property to the value of $3,000 That in May 1900, the said Clarence E. Fiske wrote and signed with his own hand, what he then declared to be his last will and testament, of which the following is @ copy Dear Anderson,—As I will always be travelling in territory more or less dangerous to my life, I request that if anything should happen to me that you will take charge of my property and send it all tomy mother, Mrs. Barlow, living in the city of Minneapolis.

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