The record-union., 1892-04-30

the contrary, the old man is still power
full weak, and going around cutting
notches IN some more six-shooters for the
benefit OF fresh, trustful and unSophisti-
Gated tourists who have left Boston and
New York with exaggerated ideas of the
wide and woolly West.
A few weeks ago l went up to Marys-
vile to see how things looked, and hear
the people discuss what they term the
dam appropriations, and while at hotel
IN that city met gentleman who said
he was an Intimate acquaintance Of an
other gentleman whose mother was one
OF the members of that part of the DON
ner party that didn't get caught in the
snow, but escaped by the skin of their
teeth. AS John Stark, the hero of Don
ner Lake, was brother to my own grand
1ather, we naturally fell to talking about
the horrors of that awful experience. |
asked whether it was really true that
Edward Reynolds and Amos Lane of
Irdckee, with the assistance of c. +. Nc
Glashan and Stewart Mckay, had, nearly
q year ago, unearthed the money buried
by Mrs. Franklin A. Graves in the win
ter OF 1861, when one of the Reed party
proposed that game of eucher should be
played to decide who should possess it.
The man said mo" He said a great
deal more than that, and gave me to un-
derstand that the whole thing was a base
pIOGs SOIIGl up anu cdIIIet OUT with
malice aforethOught. He said that Amos
Lane had livery stablein Truck ee, and as
business was slack just then, and prom
Ised to remain so, the said Amos put his
head into an incubator and the base plot
was hatched: that Amos and Reynolds
picked out the spot where the money was
to be discovered, and fixed it, and then
when the sign was right they went there
IN a careless sort of way and discovered
1t. 1t was one of the easiest discoveries
ever made. Columbus, De Soto, Pi-
Zarro and Jack the Giant AnnihilatOr,
never had so easy job in their lives.
Even the ieats of Hercules paled before it
IN point OF ease, and we all know that
the tasks by which Hercules achieved his
fame were the easiest in the world, be-
cause they We're never performed. Her
cules was gotten up by the ancients to
advertise particular brand of blasting
powder.
OF course everybody wanted to see the
spot where the money was found. To
get there rigs were needed. Amos Lane
mad rigs IN his stable, so Amos hired out
his rigs. Guides to find the spot and
point out the points of interest and look
after the rigs were necessary. Amos
Lane had guides, so the people went to
Amos Lane and got guides. What Rey-
noIds got is not known. Maybe he got
the old coins that were exhibited be-
St''''S iAOCSAJ lbs LCSlIN any GlIi1lS VI
them since.
The man VINO told me all this was al
most warm, in fact nearly too warm, in
his indignant protest against the base
plot. lie added that no matter how
many ysnow-conquering machines Amos
Lane might make to carry the mails in
winter he could never make amends for
the way he took the slackness out of
business, and as tor McGIashan, that
wicked authority on poker, as she is
played, would stub his toe some day,
while running the Truckee Republican,
and fall down and burst.
don't know whether this man told me
the truth or not. hope he didn't. 1t is
the first time l ever hoped man was a
liar. 1t was very early in the morning
when he told me-alOng about 4:30 l
should judge. [ know 1 looked at the
three clerks that hung on the wall about
that time, and made several remarks
about the time to the three clocks that
were standing behind the register about
that time. At 4:30 in the morning things
are little apt to appear somewhat hazy
and distorted, as though ones neck was
cotton string and ones head weighed
but what am L writing about anyway.
Let us say that it was a hazy morning-a
very hazy morning, and quit the subject.
a. V. HOFFMAN.
Stockton, April a, 1892.