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Hidden Treasure.Franktown inrjafBlMyy.cjf Kx-r* • citenient.^ * k •• * *-$85,000 Burled By a Highwayman—Effort* to Flod the Such of Money—»What the Spirit* Say About the Mat ter-HI story of the Search.* [From onrioWn CtfirMpondcnt.]For the past few days Frank town has been the scene of a great excitement over a supposed hidden treasure. Men, women and children have been huntiog in the mountains for it. 'I’ho story about the treasure has been known here for the past .twenty-fiveyears. It ia as follows: So:no time in 1850 a man was tried and convicted of murder. Before his execution ho made a confession, of which this is thei 4substance:THE ROlinER’S STORY.,, • i ,1 had been a highway robber on theplains for years and had accumulated eighty-five thousand dollars, I started back to California to take a steamerfor the East. In November I reached Washoe valley, and seeing that a storm was brewing, I feared that I could not cross the mountains to California, so concluded to bury my money. I therefore buried it, back of Frank-town, above what is known as the old Mormon mill, with the intention of returning for it in the spring. Notbeing satisfied with my gains, I went on the’-road again; Now here I stand, convicted of murder and doomed to die.EARLY SBa'011 FOR THE GOLD.The above story is as told to me bya mao who heard it, and who came toWashoe valley on purpose to seek theburied treasure. He came in 1858;or'9 and was well kiiown to your correspondent and to all the old settlers ill the valley. Failing in his search, be left in disgust for parts unknown. For years nothing has been opfenlv said about the treasure, although it hasbeen searched for from time to time by several parties.TIIE AID or SIT HITS INYOKED,m ■ *It has.been known here for severaldays that a prominent spiritualistfrom California, not at all acquaintedwith this section of the country, liasdescribed the exact location of theMorgan mill, and that he has led many up the side of the mountain to look after a fortune. Your correspondent has had an interview with Mrs. flowers, “the Washoe Seerosa,” and she says there is treasure hidden somewhere near Frank town. As she was hem in ’54, she remembers well the story about the treasure. But strange to say, when she calls on her spirit friends, none of them are able to tell her the exact locality of the deposit. Even her deceased husband and brother, whom she claims to be her constant companions, say they know nothing about it. The spiritual Mr. Bowers tells her that if he did, he would be sure to tell her, as he knows she needs money.FINDING TUB HOLE.Maurice May had an idea that he knew where the treasure was hidden.t •So about 5 o’clock last Sunday morning, he and a confidential friend started out with pick and shovel to becomesuddenly rich. They at last reached the proper place to dig when, ;o and behold, there they found a hole about four feet deep, and all that remained of the treasure was a dollar and a half, lying un the ground near the hole, an evidence that some one had been before them in the search. On the way home Maurice looked so disappointed to think that some of our Franktown Christiana had robbed him of Eighty-Four Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight Dollars and fifty cents that a favorite dog failed to recognize him. The dog bit him and May shot the animal. It is hinted around thatMay suspects Judgo Harcourt and Constable Frank Wooten of robbing him of the treasure that was M good as his, so that a double duel may soon be expected.Chuck-a-Luck.Franktowiiy Feb. 10,1880.A Burglary Tuemlny Evening.A burglar entered Herman Wright’s house on Sierra street, nearly oppositer ►Lee’s stable, Tuesday and carriedoff jewelry and clothing to the value of $135. Mrs. Wright had been absent for a short time, and when she returned about 7 o’clock, she heard some one moving about the [house. \ Sup-; posing it to be her husband, she called' to him, when, she saw a large man run away from the house with a bundle in his arms. It was so dark that she could not distinguish his features. Among the articles stolen were an overcoat and .a ladies’ cloak. The thief has not yet been caught.Two Organ* • -' • ■Regulate first the stomach, secondie liver; especially the first, so as to srform their.functions perfectly, and u will remove at least nineteen irentieths of all the ills that mankind heir to in this or any other climate, [op Bitters is the only thing thatill give perfectly healthy natural1 hi to these* two organs.—Maine
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Weekly Reno Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1880
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