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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF 51s. II. G. Bedwell. wife of the trainer of tlie J. K. L. Ross stable, is a recent visitor at Tijuana. Congressman F. A. Britten of Illinois and L. P. Padgett of Tennessee were visitors at the Tijuana race track last Saturday. Kinlark, the Prince of Wales Australian jumper, goes into the stable of " King Georges trainer, Richard Marsh, who is aii . expert at tlie crosscountry sport. Tenite, a fair early two-year-old, by Granite Ten Pin, at New Orleans, has been tubed for a wind affection, and is again iu training iu the Loucheim stitble. Tlie French sire Verwood, by Ladas Kildonau, the dam of Donnacona, lias been syndicated by a group of French breeders which bought him from Edmond Blauc. Thomas Fortune Ryan has engaged Charlie Quinn as his agent for next fumnier. Lewis Garth will train tlie Ryan horses, which race under tlie name of the Oakridge. Stable. E. R. Bradley, of Idle Hour Farm. Keutucky, is in New York on business preliminary to a southwestern trip home, thence to New Orleans, and from there later to Palm Beach, Fla. According to tlie list of stallions published in tlie latest issue of tlie South American Stud Book, the English-bred Tilton is the veteran, the son of Melton having been foaled in 1S90. so that he is now bordering on his thirty-first year. Tlie estate of the late James B. Haggin was valued at 0,400,000 in the accounting filed by the executors. It had been valued by some at ,000.000. It consists of Kentucky, New York, California and South American properties. It is reported that Walter Jeunings. the veteran trainer of California, who had charge of A. K. Macombers horses for several years, is going to return East next spring and take charge of a large racing establishment. The owner of tlie stable has not been mentioned, but it may be the one belonging to J, U, Rosseter,