The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-08-16
BETTER THAN A NOVEL.
Because 1t Is Shorter, and 1t May
Be just as True.

Be just as True.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. '
In the year 1902 the land that :
now comprises Delaware county, ,
o., was the hunting grounds of the
Delaware Indians. The sachem,
Nochestree, "The Moon That's
Full" had two wives. Laughing
Brook" who had daughter named .
"Wild Flower" whose lover was
young chief of the Wyandot tribe.
The second wife was named "Old
Woman That Scolds." She also
had a daughter, "Fleet as the
Wind" who was also in love with
the Wyandot chief, who preferred
Wild Flower.
The old sachem possessed a
great treasure, the secret of which
he conhded to Laughing Brook.
Old Lady that Scolds and her
daughter attempted to murder
laughing Brook and Wild Flower
to getthe secret. Laughing Brook
died, but before her death told her
daughter that the treasure was bur
led in a cave on the East bank of
the Sciota river, about one mile
south of where the village of Belle
point now stands. Wild Flower
fled after her mothers death, mar
ried the Wyandot chief and went
West with him.
In the fall of 1872 she adopted a
a white girl baby that the tribe had
stolen from wealthy family IN
Illinois. The baby never knew
her parents, and believed herself
to be true Indian until the fall of
1893, when Wild Flower told her
!, the story of her birth, and also the
story of the treasure cave, which
5 she had never before told to liv
: ing soul. The girls name among
5 the Indians was ''Deermeedia"
meaning "Like the Dove" but the
name her parents had given her
was Nellie King.
After hearing the remarkable sto-
ry of Wild Flower, Miss Nellie
made up her mind she would, in
the spring, seek out the cave on
A the banks of the Sciota, and with
4 the money try and find her parents
I, Y among her own people. Nellie
y had good education, having at
~ tended the Indian school for many
n years, and was, besides, very pref
4 tv. She had friend, an Indian
y; about sixty-hve years old, who had
Y been her companion from child
n hood. He would not listen to her
u going alone, so she told him OF the
n treasure cave, and they went tc
4 Delaware on April 7, 1894.
Z After resting in Delaware ter
Y dav or two Miss Nellie and her ole
N friend, the Indian, went to tn
u country in the vicinity of Belle
4 point and procured board AM
4 lodging at farm house close t
\ where the supposed hidden treas
Y ure was to be found. They spen
~ most of their time on the river in
N canoe, examining the banks an
a looking for the cave until they wer
!, regarded with suspicion by tn
Z good country folks, for they keI
y their secret. One morning ate
T. a heavy rain they wentin their DO;
y on the river as usual, hunting tC
n some trace of the cave. The rive
!, mad risen to great height, an
= was bank full. A floating log dc
y molished the lrail craft The II
~ dian was thrown out of the DO;
n and striking his head against
= floating log met his death.
Nellie would have been browne
had she not been seen by one OF
party of campers, who had straye
from his camp at Mlllvllle to flo;
down the stream in boat watcl
Nm ing out for wild ducks. Before ST
sank the second time the hunt
pulled her into his boat. he
e companion introduced himself
n Dave Nor ton, of Delaware. +
- took her to his boarding house a
pramised to find the body OF tt
cry Indian, but was unsuccessful.
Dawes acquaintance with Nell
ripensd into love. Nellie recipr
Gated. They took up the hunt t
q the cave together, but the high W
- ters had washed away all traces
L "a 4hic DIV the trea