Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — MAN DECLARES HE IS ALIVE [ARTICLE]

MAN DECLARES HE IS ALIVE

Probate Court at Seattle Had Said That Arthur George Was Dead. Seattle.—Arthur George, a painter living at No. 758 Market street, Tacoma, appeared at the county clerk’s office recently and filed a solemn declaration that he was not dead. He objected to the probate court’s action in declaring him dead and turning over $750 worth of Seattle real estate to Mrs. George, now dead, after he failed to claim his property or his wife after seven years’ absence. “I solemnly declare that I never was dead and am not now,” he swears in this statement filed with the county clerk. He was instructed to confer with the Swedish consul, who aided the heirs of Mrs. George to obtain the property. George said he lived under his own name at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, all the time he was supposed to have been dead until he moved to Tacoma about a year ago.