The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-22
Trunk Full of Gold,

Some man has ul,enrthcu II trunk con-
tanning about S1JO,OOO in gold in the vi
entity of the cemetery. a mile west of
Fresno, Cal, says the San Francisco
Call. Who he is cannot be learned, as
only Il few persons know of the discovery
and they are maintaining the greatest Sc
&crccy. The lucky finder ami his friends
believe they have made Il big strike
Their is no doubt that their story is true.
but there is Il lurking suspicion that they
have found Il quantity OF counterfeit coin.
j. &. Wnffnrd formerly Il deputy con-
stable in Fresno, is authority for the re-
port of the discovery. 10 Call. CORE
Slmn''ent he exhibited Il couple. of the
the trunk. The imprint of the coins
could be seen plainly in the cloth, which
was ready to fall apart from age. Mr.
Wexford stated that the money was all in
gold and amounted to about $1IO,OOO. He
stated that in his opinion the treasure
had been buried there years ago by ,Joa'
quin Murietta, the noted outlaw Of the
early days. The .cx-officer believes that
the money is the plumber of some big
robbery by the daring brigand. and that
NasQueZ buried it Oil the plains for future
use or probably because it imreded his
flight.
According to Wofford's story an old
Mexican who died recently told the per-
son who afterward discovered the treas
IRE of it's existence and the place where it
could he found. BY streak Of fortune
the trunk was foun; in one of the first
sigsings for it, The exact point at which
the trunk WAS found cannot he learned.
Woffcrd gives the place as being within
mile of the cemetery.
, The cN-deputy constable gives as his
reason for withholding further facts re-
gartling the find that it is not desired to
let the authorities know of it. The finder
and his friends had not secured legal adj
vice, and We're under the impression that
the state could contiscate half of the
not making the discovery known.
. OF course there is Il possibility that
Nofford's friend has found fortune. but
it is more probable that he discovered
counterfeit coin. Dcputysheriff Finn
MINIS stated that convict whom he had
taken to state prison had told him while
on route to the penitentiarv that he knew
of counterfeit coin was buried near Frcs-
no. The prisoner said he would tell the
officer where it was located when he
should have served his time. Tinlmns
refused to divulge the name of the con-
Wet, In all! probabili this was the
trunk that Woford's friend found.
Under Water Eighteen Hours.
An Italian Inventor named Corzetto
has CONSTRUCTED all apparatus, which he
calls 4 ''mcthydric sphere" and by means
of which lie Processes to be able to de-
scend to any depth in the sea. In his
experiment ut Spezzia he stored some
1000 cubic feet of compressed air in
his apparatus, which he entered with
two friends, and which was then lowered
to Il depth of some thirty feet. AS after
an expiration of nine hours the ''sphere'
had not yet been seen to reascend to the
nral in command of the naval
diver to the spot. The "spherc"
was found still resting on the sea
bottom, but the diver heard nothing in
answer to his knocks. Some barges
hav wing been brought to the spot by tug,
the "sphrrc' was hauled up with ropes,
and as soon as it emerged it's door was
opened. and the inventor. appeared with
Il livid face and half asphyNiated. His
two companions were unconscious, but
were quickly resuscitatcd They had re-
manned eighteen hours under water. The
inventor explains that SO far all his ex-
periments were successful, but on this
occasion. when he intended to return to
the surface the air pressure at his COM
mand proved insufficient to expel the
water ballast Of about two tons weight,
which had so far kept his appliance sub
merged. and hence they had to remain
where they were until rescued. At any
rate. three persons were enabled to re-
main under water for eighteen hours.
and this experiment may not be without
significance as regards the much-(is-
clSscl problem of submarine navigation.
Scientific American.