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MMnx—ayslet fpif Overed .td-'Shareft •Ity fn New the so-called •s, constitute j outstanding fo insurance were invalid . It appears suitable socl-o bo distrib-5er than five 30 of getting law was en-ance of Hen-mt “any do-corporation rticlea of as-o making a wo or more id notwith-contrary In . make and :rlly, or atmanner andthe parlies rter or aril-assumed by rod dividend for periods say for ten, id they werentended thatty-flve years e of tho pol-s instead of ollcy as well ear, exclude from all divas the char-des that'div-d among the paid premi-i maintained policies that at period 'or hare in the tias been ac-Z profits un-Ince that law Id.issage of theMEETING NEXT MONDAY ON NEW ROAD QUESTIONFew Objections to New Highway Expected by Commissioners—Owners of Land Willing to Donate Property for the Road—An Improvement That Is Much Needed—A Benefit to All in the Community.The Sterling Commissioners of Highways have decided to try a new material for highway culverts. The five culverts were taken out Monday morning by Commissioner John Phillips and wlll.be put in on tho east and west road near Woodlawn. The culverts are made of a very heavy corrugated galvanlfled iron. There has never been any of them used In this part of the country and their durability and usefulness on the roads will be watched with interest by all who are interested in road making. It is claimed for them that! they will not rust out as quickly as much heavier steel pipes which havo been used and that the corrugating of the Iron makes it impossible to crush them down with the heaviest loads. If they are properly placed in the highways.Tho new culverts will be placed at once and will be ready for Inspection by the board of commissioners when that body goes out to Wodlawn nextMonday to hold a meeting at the sito of the proposed new road between the Samuel Albertson and Isaac Hoover farms. The board will watch the culverts and if th$y prove out what Ib claimed for them, others of the kind may be put In use in Sterling township.The petition for the new road was presented some days ago to Town Clerk Roy R. Baer. It is signed by a number of the property owners of the vicinity and if there are not too many objection# presented at the meeting of the commissioners, the road will soonbe opened and prepared for uae.The proposed highway will be along the line between the.farms of Isaac1830—Finder Likely to Have Trouble with Urtcle Sam—Colonel Zachary Taylor Buried the Treasure When Attacked.The Monmouth Atlas revives tho story regarding the eighty thousand* dollars in gold coin that was hurled back In 1830 somewhere in the Mis-, sissippi bluffs, very close to where tho town of Watikon, ta„ now stands.; The man who burled it was afterward, president of the United States- Th man who will some day find and di it up—-and It is pretty certain som day to bo found, for searchers ar constantly seeking, It—will have tro bio with Uncle Sam, who will attornto recover it. j /The legend of the big cache of. Uncle Sam’g gold dates back to the Black Hawk War. Colonel Zachary Taylor *was in command of old Fort McKay, then one of the important government outposts In this section. It was on the extreme verge of the “bluff region” between the Indiana and the whites, In constant danger of attacks by Black Hawk and his fierce warriors.To this outpost one day in 183Q came four bags of ftold, each weighing about eighty pounds, iho aggregate value of whlcty was about eighty thousand dollars. / They . were consigned to the post paymaster to pay off the soldiers. It was the largest amount that had ever been sent to a post so far out oil a frontier in a time of practical hostilities, and Colonel Taylor was Instructed most minutely as to the care and tho guarding of the treasure.Just at that time Black Hawk was very activo and aggressive and there was serious possibility that the little garrison might bo forced to evacuate Fort McKay and fall back. Accordingly Colonel Taylor decided the money must be bidden outside the stockade. The colonel called for volunteers for special service and selected four men, headed hy the srgeant named Merclerre. These he gave a sack of gold each and sent them at night to burv it and brin^ back a carefulVery Soon-Show That New Jn SterAccording tcChief of Folic who have bee George Clark 1 which was ra police, left t.ov left in a hurry fact that seve were left beh! several monthj to sacrifice. lh his objections lice have their other joints c city and It is thing will bemoond have p the police reco ly surprised tc cently has the house of thisBIG ALARBurning Rubb day NJght C —CallTho fire del the dumpingwire mill, Sui o'clock, when from box 54. dump ami wac a time, hnd n was obtained * made. The «• which wolt;3 rur caused mhny : was seriousFUNERALServices Held BurialTho funeral mains of IHra. at the home o day morning ci W. Diehl, past Methodist chu
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Sterling Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 03, 1905
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