The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23

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Doiiivsrss Tfidden Wealth n Maine was
stolen ana Taken 70 nacntreni.
TEE Foaks. Ne. Oct 21.-Moro than forty
years ago old Jim DolliveT. q RIGA owner Of
timber land and mills. buried $4,000 IN gold
somewhere between here and Murphy,s. He
had come from Montreal along the old French
~voyageur's trail, and, reaching The Forkb. had
told the landlord Of the hotel that he bad been
followed by a party OF French and Indian ont
laws all the way from the st. Lawrence River.
" have nearly fvescore hundred yellow SOW
ereiRns In my batteau." said he. and l don't
bury my money now the crazy devils VIII rob
me before / get to waterville."
He left the hotel at 10 O'Clock that night, and
was away three days. On his return he re-
marked to the landlord:
well. Two put that money where the ARCH
angel Gabrielcant flnd It."
Then he took a hearty supper. went 10 bed.
slept two days and two nights, and awoke q
raving maniac. For a week he fought Indians
and buried untold treasures in his delirlum.
and died In the act OF shooting q Mohawk
chief. who had invaded his sick fancy for the
purpose OF robbing him, Papers found among
his effects showed that he had drawn $500 in
English gold from a Montreal bank q month
before he arrived at The Forks. and as this sum
did not appear in the inventory Of his estate, it
was believed generally hat the money was
buried within a days Journey Of this Post
Oflce.
For a dozen years after Delivers death his
heirs advertised for the missing wealth and
increased the reward until the finder was en-
titled to as per cent. OF all no should discover.
Having spent nearly 5000 in advertising. the
heirs gave 1t up as q bad Job. after which the
people who know the story continued the work
at their wi expense. For twenty years the
digging went on at all seasons. Whenever q
man or a boy ran short OF money and had
nothing else to do he shouldered a pick and
shovel and. taking a weeks supply Of food on
his back. went into the woods between MUIR
ggo ag,s l Sad dh the e9 sress SnS N T' Gsos to di osbsfs
where me labor were light: and very many
witch hazel rods to help them along on the
ro In g 0c Wtsbsash' 1891. saundera Atwood came
here from. WSinterPcft and brought an electric
S Snt FnglI KIP h.nntipmi;nwT which nSaor ne so snid so shor 1esees
R iater S Se showed Sa : handful M Hs 81 English STaH soS wSSns
ell stamped with dates thirty or moro years
off.the missing wealth. But While the people
accepted his theory that the proper time to dig
p T%iSs az the este story ~ That HSS he had found %HSf; any iSs 81 t tSe
This fall. when the muscles of. the farmers
forty men packed up a few tools and made
ready to start on another search for Delivers
money as soon as the old moon hould change.
They were loaflnR about the hotel and stores
one night when word come from Montreal that
Eugene Beaupre, an aged and rich Frenchman
Of that city. had lately died. confessing on his
deathbed that he had seen .Dolliver conceal the
gold in a hollow pine stub, and had gone and
turned to The Forks. This information was
verified later by an announcement that one
and left an estate amounting to 100000 to diff
ferent charities, in Canada and Maine. saying
atonement for a Grievous sin committed in the
State OF Maine In October. 1885,.
Conseryatiye estimates indicate that more
pended in digging for Delivers wealth, and
that fully 10000 tons Of earth and stone have
been dug up and turned over by men who were
looking in Maine for money that was safely in
vested in Montreal real estate.