The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-15

find tho entrance or exit to that cave
for years. on the sneak. but couldht.
and he even married a squaw OF the
tribe. thinking that she might give him
the tip. but she was afraid TO do so until
she was on her deathbed. Ihen she
started In 20 tell him how - ma the
treasure troye bu, he had grown
little hard OF hearing by that time, and
I'm her efforts to make him near she
exhausted herself and died before she
she could give him the proper seer.
This was a great disappointment 10
Helm, and his descendants TO this day
declare that If the cave IS ever -ound
that will put IN a clam Tor snare CT
its contents, on TIE grounf That their
ancestor saw it irst.
There are endless stories, handed
down by early white settlers OF now the
Indians OF that part Of the Delaware
Valley used bullets and arrow-neads
made Of silver in their battles with the
whites and their raids on the settle
ments There used TO be great many
Of these silver bullets and AFRO" heads IN
the old families preserved as relics OF
those stirring davs. There are many
descendants Of the settlers still hvipS
who are old enough TO remember having
seen plenty Of them, but tire relics seem
TO have all got away somehow. as there
is nOn3 Of them left. The lver came
from the Shohola Glen cave. the hoard
was never all used up. II 4 had been
descendants OF the aboriginal custodians
wouldn't TO this day be coming among
us from Canada every once IN Whlle
and acting 50 mysteriously that we got
on to them long ago. They come to find
the entrance 20 that cave-thats what
they do. But we're keeping an eye on
em.
"A well-marked Indian path may be
seen TO this day leading through the
woods parallel with the Delaware river,
and crossing the Shohola creek at the en-
trance TO the glen, within quarter or
a mile Of the Erie railroad. Now, what
keeps that old path openE me lnhapl-
tants around there have no use Tor II.
Hunters and fishermen? Some folks pre-
tend TO think so. But that isn't IL at
all. It's Indians that keep that OLD pain
from growing over-descendants OF the
original people treading II stealthily and
secretly. What for? Searching Tor that
treasure cave. The instructions That
their fOrefathers handed down as TO the
location OF that cave ana now 10 ma
&c have slipped a cog somehow, ana
they've lost the clue. 80 these present
day Indians are sliding down there every
little while, following the old Indian
path and keeping it open.
some folks up there pOoh-pooh ana
saw Fudge but why doesn't that old
path disappear. then? And what did the
Indian say the time he stopped at Valen-
tine Hipsmans tavern and ordered nine
hard-bOied eggs. ate them. and said ne
wanted TO get train No. o. going east!
Why he said that an ancestor or his was
i'm the battle OF MInisink under Brant,
the famous Indian chief. That battle
was fought I'm 1919. three miles up the
Delaware from ShOhOla, on the YORK
state side. Although the indians were
successful I'm the battle, this ancestor
of the reminiscent Indian saw that the
DAYS OH the red men In the valley were
numbered. lie was one Of the few VINO
knew of the existence Of cave IN the
ShOhOla ravine. this Indian sald, anu
after tho battle he followed the old In
dian trail TO the ShOhOla, entered the
cave az that side. walled the entrance
mp from within. then passed through 10
Panther Brook. came out OF the cave at
that side. and walled up the entrance
there This was 10 destroy all probability
Of the white settlers stumbling upon the
cave and securing the treasure IL con-
tanned. This thoughtful warrior subse-
quently went TO Canada. where all the
indians went when they were driven
from the region. He died shortly after
ward. and left only meagre directions TO
his family as to the finding Of the hidden
caves-so meagre said the Indian who
ate the nine hard boiled eggs at Hip
mans that mont Of them had any hope
Of ever finding Il. That's what the
Indian said. But did he leave on train
No. 6 that day2 No. sir, he didn't! Ana
he has never been seen since. Some
folks say that h. found the cave got
into It, got lost there, couldn't find MS
way out again and died. / don't know
about that but ha was only trying 10
throw MS off by what he said and wasn't
there for any o.ler purpose than TO hunt
for that cave. That's what And IT'S
Indians ike him that are keeping that
old Indian path open. and what we want
10 do ND I'm that corner OF Pike county is
TO watch out. A fellow from New York
came near throwing us all into FITS last
summer by advancing a theory he had
about that Indian path being 50 fresh.
"Tps because Indians are using II on
the sIv.' ne said. But they're not look
ing for that cave. They're not looking
for that cave because they've found IL.
They've found tha cave and they're