The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-06-21
TREAsURE-TRovE.
Richness on soap Creek.
. FORTUNE FOUND ny II AID OF
SPIRITS.

nomenon in spiritualism which has
been developed within the past week,
and by which a trio of individuals have
been suddenly elevated from indulgence
and perjury to comfort and even afllu-
encc. GU a modest scale. The circum-
stance, 81 ripped of all useless verbiage
and sensational rhetoric, is rs follows :
Immediately opposite this city, on
the Benton county side of the river,
resides u family wlrose members are
well known believers in spiritism-two
or three of the young men of the fam
lily being what are com monty known
as "mediums," possessing: the blessed
privilege of being in freq uent inter-
course with the spirits o. departed
mortals, and from time to tim receiv-
ing communications of more or less
Importance from these invisible nut re-
markably watchful and obserV ing "su-
perhumanitarians.n Among the ma ny
spirits which have recently interviewtd
one of the mediums named was that O..
q half-breed who claims the honor of
having been hanged about fourteen
years ago for the murder of a miner
whose plethoric bags of gold dust the
murderer much did covet. The spirit
told the medium that after he had
committed the bloody deed, and before
he was a%pprehen led by the relentless
minions of the law, he had deposited
the bag of gold-dust amounting to the
magnificent sum of fourteen thousand
dollars in an old boot and had buried
it Oh the margin of a certain little
brook, at the root of a mammoth tree,
beside an Indian trail, on the farm
now owned by NJ. c. Galloway, located
about six miles west of this city, near
the meanGeriug waters of the deter
gent stream known and recorded upon
the maps as Soap Creek.
Having implicit faith in the infor-
nation thus impaired by the aecom-
modating spirit Of the defauet half
breed, our medium took eoHple of
friends int his conffsleace, secured
their eompanionship and assistance in
the enterprise, and oil last Friday
night, when all the inhabitants of Soap
Creek were wrapped in slumhrous re-
pose, the trio of nocturnal gold hum
ters," with picks and shovds silently
wendell their moon-lit way TO the spot
so accurately described by the 'alf-
aud-'alf spirit, and after assuring them
selves, by the closest scrutiny OF the
landmarks. that they had not mistook
the spot, they silently and prayerfully
invoked the continued aid of the gal
iows-freed spirit in their search, and
delved into the bowels of the earth
They had given but a few strokes with
the pick and cast up but 4 few shovel
fuis of earth, when their straining aud
watchful eyes caught a glimpse of the
shining ore, particles of which had
broken through the partially decay ed
bag and boot and were attempting to
again assimilate with their mother
earth. Although the leathery depos-
itory Of the gold was almost entirely
decayeG, it had still kept the gold in
such a compact mass that our treasure
seekers had but little difficulty in Sc
curing the entire mount which had
been deposited, and were shortly on
their way home, rejoicing in the pos
session Of a snug little fortune!
OF curse many Of u readers will
~vehementIy assert that the foregoing
statement is a 'copperlIcad lie,'' a ''put
up job on the editor, etc, etc.; but
we positively assert that We have con-
yersed with several parties who have
talked with other parties who have
seen the nli%raculously discovered gold
dust and eve gaZed wistfully into tile
hole where it lay buried for those long
fourteen years. We hare related the
curious incident just as it was related
to US, and while we cannot confidently
vouch for its truth, we cam safely as
sert that our i%nforrnants are persons of
unimpeachabie integrity and truthful
ness of character, and appear to believe
implicitly in the actual truth of the
circumstance narrated. We can only
say fhst if the phenomenon is al actual
occpffence we shall always have a deep
and abiding disgust for the spirit of
that murderous half-breed for not Civ
ing us an equal show for that buried
treasure with those other fellows who
were no nearer related TO him by the
ties of consanguinity and with whom
he was not even on imbibing terms
while his spirit still inhabited his Dol
~ Warden corpus. That spirit can OH
ly receive the endorsement and sup
port OF these columns by giving the
treasure finders a revelation to divide
with us, or by revealing to us another
hole where q like sum may be un-
earthed. If that spirit doesn't want to
be shown up in his true light he had
better ''come down" handsomely with
a valuable revelation to the shower of
his quill. Subsidy is what we want
or we will ruin that haIf-breed spirits
business if it takes all SUMMER.
a FAILURE.-The Corvallis and Al
bany Base Ball Clubs did not play their
third tournament last Saturday, as
was announced. The reason was, that
the Corvallis club would not agree to
play on the Monmouth grounds, but
insisted on playing the game on theiI
own grounds. Our Albany club, being
the challenged party, had a right to
the choice Of grounds, and chose the
Monmouth grounds because they were
entirely neutral. We presume this