The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-12

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Q White GirI-she Looks For a Hidden
Treasure Finds a Husband and Lost
Relatives.
In t,.e year 1902 the land that now
comprises Delaware county. O.. was the
hunting grounds of the Delaware In
dams. The Sachem NOchestree Moon
That's FULL had two wives. Laughing
Brook, who had a daughter named Wild
Flower, whose lover was a 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 contided
to Laughing Brook. Old Woman That
Scolds and her daughter attempted to
murder Laughing Brook and Wild
Flower to get the secret. Laughing
Brook died, but before her death told
her daughter hat the treasure was
buried in a ave On the east bank Of the
Scioto river, about one mile south Of
where the village of Bellepoint now
stands. Wild Flower fed after her
mothers death, married the Wyandot
chief and went west with him.
In the fall of 1872 she adopted q
white girl baby that the tribe had
stolen from a wealthy family in Illinois.
The baby never knew her parents and
believed herself to be. q true Indian un-
til the fall of 1898, when Wild Flower
told her the story Of her birth and also
the story of the treasure cave, which
she had never before told to a living
soul. The girls name among the In
dams was Dcermeedia, meaning Like
the Dove, but the name her parents had
given her was Nellie King.
After hearing the remarkable story Of
Wild Flower Miss Nellie made up her
mind she would in the spring seek out
the cave on the hanks Of the Scioto and
with the Money 1ry TO find Ter parents
among her own people, Nellie had a
good education, having attended the In
dian school for many years, and was be-
sides very pretty. She had a friend, an
Indian about 65 years old, who had been
her companion from childhood. He
would not listen to her going alone, Sc
she told him Of the treasure cave, and
they went to Delaware OF April 7, 1894.
After resting in Delaware for a day
or two Miss Nellie and her old friend,
the Indian, went to the country in the
vicinity of BellepOint and procured
board and lodging at q farmhouse close,
t o where the supposed hidden treasure
was to be found. They spent most of
their time on the river in q canoe, ex-
amining the banks and looking for the
cave until they We're regarded with sus-
picion by the good country folk, for
they kept their secret. One morning
after q heavy rain they met in their
boat on the river as usual, hunting for
some trace of the cave. The river had
risen to a great height and was bank
full. A floating log demolished the
frail craft. The Indian was thrown out
of the boat, and, striking on his head
against u floating log, met his death.
Nellie would have been drowned had
she not been seen by n Of a party Of
CdI1ptEs II Aetu stluNti lIoLI LIS SdIAp
at Millville to float down the stream
in a boat watching out for wild ducks.
Before she sank the second time the
hunter pulled her into his boat. Her
companion introduced himself as Dave
Norton Of Delaware.
He took her to his boarding house and
promised to find the body of the Indian,
but was unsuccessful.
Dawes acquaintance with Nellie rip
ened into love. Nellie reciprocated.
They took up the hunt for the ave to-
gether, but the high waters had washed
away all traces to the cave, and to this
day the treasure is unknown. Shortly
after this Dave and Nellie were married,
and with the assistance Of Ben S. Lee
she has been able to find her relatives
who are prominent and wealthy people
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