The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-11-11
MORE BURIED TREASURE

MORE BURIED TREASURE.
This Time Located In Argentine Repub.
| ac-Its Lengthy History.
There is a fortune buried near the.
town OF La Plata, in the Argentine
Republic, and the people down there
are going crazy over it. The money
is all in bank of England notes, and
there is &360,00o for the man who is
fortunate enough to find it. ..'.
When the civil war broke out in
| Chill President Balmaceda, realizing
the Importance of a navy in such q
conflict, commissioned Colonel Pinto
one OF his most trusted friends, to
proceed to England and purchase or
oulld a couple of fast cruisers, which
were to be manned by picked crews
and sent out to Valparaiso as fast as
steam could carry them. Pinto was
given bills of exchange on several
London banks to pay for the cruisers
and he lost no time in starting on
| his mission, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
The only possible way he could
get to England was by taking pass
| age on one of the steamers running
between Valparaiso and Liverpool;
and, as he had to go via Magellan's
straits and up the Atlantic, the voy-
age took considerable time. especial
ly as the steamer had to call at
Montevideo, Buenos Ayres and Rio
| de Janeiro.
Before Colonel Pinto could reach
| England and secure the cruisers he
needed, Balmaceda saw how things
were going, and realizing that lots
OF ready cash would be a good thing
| to assist him out of the country in
case he was forced to leave, he tele-
| graphed Pinto to let the cruisers go
and hurry back to Valparaiso with
the money as fast as he could.
Pinto took the precaution of
changing the bills OF exchange into
Bank of England notes, and with the
e350,00O safely slowed away in a
steel box in his big trunk, he started
on his trip back.
When the steamer reached Monte
| video the news of Balmaceda's down
| fall reached him and he concluded
that the Argentine Republic would
be a more pleasant place to reside in
for while at least, as he was known
to be a personal friend of the de-
! throned dictator. Pinto took up his
residence in La Plata, and during his
residence there formed the acquaint-
ance of a gentleman named Parry.
After the excitement caused by
the war had died down Pinto con-
cluded to revisit Chill, but he did not
want the money to fall into the hands
of his enemies. He was afraid to
place it in any of the banks for fear
the victorious insurgents would put
in claim for it, so one night when
everything was quiet he took the
precious box out and buried it.
| This done he went back to Chilli
with light heart, but no sooner had
he set foot in Valparaiso than he
was arrested and thrown into dun
geon and told that when he got
ready to turn the money over to the
government he would be released
and not before. Some of Pinto's
| friends, however, told him that so
long as he kept the money out of the
hands of his enemies he was safe, but
as soon as he turned it over to the
government he would be taken out
and shot as traitor.
Pinto is a native of Buenos Ayres,
| and he concluded to use part of the
| money in effecting his release if pos
sible. With this object in view he
wrote to Mr.. Paray telling him how
matters stood and Offering him one
fourth if he would induce the Argeu-
tine government to take up his case
and demand his release. The loca-
tion of the buried treasure was not
given in the letter, but would be
sent to Mr.. Parry if he concluded to
| accept the proposition.
Mr.. Parry by accident lost the let
ter, and the finder soon made known
the fact that the big fortune in Bank
of England notes was buried some
where near the town, and the result
is that about every man that can Sc
cure spade is now out digging for
the treasure and leaving everything
else to take care of itself.
To Gross tho Atlantic With Fresh Flowsrx
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