The Arizona champion., 1890-03-08
WEEKLY CIA PION
GOLD PIECES.
A Discovery of Buried Treasure by
 Young Mexican.

A Discovery of Buried Treasure by a
 Young Mexican.
 Great excitement prevails at Pinos Altos, eight miles from this city. by the discovery of some S2, 900 in S2O gold pieces, by young mexican named Lucio Iazo who was engaged in cleaning up, leavel- ing and planting fruit trees on a strip of ground adjoining the res idence of Bell x Stebhens on the EY cn tie main street Of the t,wn. An old log residence long since gone to decay anl fallen in, stood on this piece of ground, to- gether with an accumulation of rub bish, and it was while tearing down and removing the old cabin and
 
 the piles of debris, and digging holes for the transplanting of fruit trees, that young Lucio Lazo, in the employ of Bell & Stephens, Owner- of the land, unearthed an old rusty 10 ounce baking powder can filled to the brim with glittering S2O gold coins of an estimated value of S2,000--enough to have made the finder comfortable for life had he not been so ruthlessly deprived oi his fortune, as will appear further on in the narrative.
 Young Lazo had been at work several days in the yard, when, on Saturday last, while digging tree hole his spade encountered a can buried in the ground at a point about two feet from the surface Carefully unearthing it heap ot shining gold coin met his astonished gaze. The can fairly overhowed with S20 pieces, to such an extent that, as with beating heart and throbbing pulse he dug carefully around and loosened 1t from its earthen tomb where it had lain fer so long, several of the coins fell out of the can. Trembling with the ex- citement the young Mexican kneel- ed down and stealthily transferred the money to his pockets, and when these were filled, to his hat and bosom, until in this way he had secreted all the gold. Then he quietly continued work as though nothing had happened, uttering a silent prayer for the speedy arrival of the supper hour, when his days work would be done and he could go home and throw his mother and sisters into ecstacies and delight by an exhibition of his fortune.
 But the humble young Mexican was to encounter bitter disappoint- ment on the threshold Of granite he had exchanged il his imagina- tion for an adobe. He had been watched. Two almond-shaped eyes darted out from saifron-aolo ed face pressed against the pane in a window of the Pinos Altos restaus ant, had witnessed tie discoveil and secretion of the buried treasure by the Mexican boy. These eye and this face belonged to the Chi nese proprietor, ana the sight e. the gold turned them first radiar' with suprase anI then dull wit envy. Without coat or hat, So bent was the Celestial on being the fir, to announce the discovery, he rusbe into the Bell and Stephens resilen. and in hurried tones informed Nj Stepeens of the gold ind. Fille,' with excitement, Stephens hurri- to the scene. The die was cast. all. Lucio L4zo was again a po,r Mex jean, though his pockets aad ha. we.e lined with golI
 Luaio Lazo wo kel on. W.ul. sjx o'clock rs>ar c,n-2 the old his pocket ci;nlSei and jinsl,d a; eT' 7 turn anl ala m .i i:m, Pr l eh Iy Nr Ste. h-us came LaniAl, toward hina, and dpmauIe,':
 Where's that coidl'
 He Young mexican atlrtied.
 ''What gol,lg" asked he.
 
 ''''lt can Of @oll yoa dug up, rPtu mel Stephens, "lts ir
 2u. jed it tl re Give it t, ne.
 Taken y surprise the Ne ,ican boy did as he was tol;l, and Nj Stephens fillel his pockets with tn,