Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-04-22
nollrreaINo pILe OF ORE"
raic Of French vlcomte and New Granada
and n Swift Fortune.

and Swift Fortune.
A man who has lately come back
from Paris told this story In the smol-
ing room ON the steamer and vouched
for its authenticity. He declined TO
give the Vicomte's name, and there was
nobody in hearing TO contradict him;
"There has been n commotion In
Paris during the last few weeks, crc-
ated by the sudden temperance in
the world of Paris of the Vicomte
dc -, one Of the quondam favorites,
who had left the city In the greatest
condemnation and disgrace some seven
years ago, and who returned, bronzed
and hardened both In mind and per
son, 60 resume the place among his
friends which not they but he de-
clared he had forfeited by his own inn
prudence and folly. by the kindness
of a relative he was enabled TO steam
away for New Grenada, where he had
been able TO obtain situation ms clerk
TO the engineer just then employed in
the construction Of line of railway
through the country.
"ln this position he fulfilled his small
duties with the most perfect exactitude
for more than three years, and at the
end of that time, the railway being
terminated, was ordered to another
duty In another part of the country.
The way was over the steepcst noun
tains. lie had already got through
the greater part of his journey, hen,
one day. overcome by the heat, ilc aid
himself down by the side OF n RUM .lg
stream, which refreshed him both by
sight and sound, and fell TO musing on
the hard fate which had torn him from
his relatives and friends TO wander
thus n lonely exile in n foreign land
when his attention was suddenly called
from these high flights TO a circum'
stance which was taking place imme
iiately beneath his eye, and which had
escaped him while gazing on the
heavens.
"The phenomei vas this: Close e
where his head wa lying amid tho
grass and flowers the running water
formed an eddy, which, after turning
in tiny whirlpool, proceeded to fal
into a narrow aperture, whence, OF
examining, he beheld no issue. Hi
curiosity was aroused, and he RAISED
himself up TO gaze down into the hol
low, the sides of which he found I,
consist of two blocks of stone, 80 worI
and polished by the continued rush o
the current that he could see to tn,
very bottom. The sight he there be
held made him stagger and fall back
almost without consciousness, on tn,
grass. In that single hollow had I'll
tered for centuries the gold sand car
ried by the current from the bed of tn
river some miles higher Up, where gol'
washing had been carried on for man.
generations.
There lay before him one glitterinl
pile of precious ore, cleaning at tn
bottom Of the 'mpid water and dc
manding only a strong hand and resc
Lutte will, both Of which he possessed
TO draw IL TO the surface. Needless :
say he traced his steps 70 the plac
whence he had departed, and soon rC
turned, bringing back men and machir
cry, and, as he says when telling th
wondrous tale, You may believe me
you choose, but in less than thre
weeks had become the richest man /
the whole republic What bears on
the assertion is She purchase he ha
made of a mansion and the splcndi
style in which he has mounted his e'
tablishment."-N.Y Y. Herald.