Arizona republican., 1899-05-02

u1S. what QlO C6nor9l
 do with his Texas indemnity stock?'
 " I really don't know, the lady an
 swered. T never heard of any such
 things. By the way she said a few
 minutes later T saw in an old envel-
 ope found among his papers not very
 long ago something which had the
 words Texas indemnity" on 1t, but 1
 thought it was only an old receipt for
 taxes paid on Texas land
 'DJ you think you can find it
 again?' said MT. Riggs, without telling
 her anything which would create ex-
 pectations that might never be real l ized.
 Oh. yes,' she replied; T remember
 perfectly well where I put it.
 Have it sent to you here was the
 next suggestion Of the banker; it is as we'll to have all the papers relating to
 this land together
 ."In the course of the next fortnight
 the lady came into the bank, and,
 handing Mir. Riggs a paper, said: Here is the tax receipt I told you of h. stead of being a tax receipt, however, it was a $10,000 Texas indemnity cer- tifcate, on which five years interest
 was due, and the intense qualification of the lady may be imagined when she was tod that the old yellow bit of pa
 per would add $12,50O in gcld to her worldly goods. It came about just in
 tinIa, too. for she was able with the money to save valuable estate in Ar kansas, which otherwise would have been sold to foreclose a mortgage overdue. Nearly all of the Texas in demnity has been paid long ago, and do not think there can be more than S25, 900 which has not been called for. Of course, interest has ceased to ac- crue.
 "1he next Icnn was that known in the market as the 5-20, a bond that could be paid in five years or in twenty after it's maturity, as tn: govern might choose. It reached the limit two years ago, ard has nearly all been paid. It was largely held in Europe. There is only about a million outstanding"
 What percentage. of bends do you estimate will never be presented?' was asked.
 Tt is. not possible for me to make any estimate that would be accurate he replied. "In England about one quarter of one per cent is the figure. What becomes Of the bonds of course I canrict say, hut they are lost or de- stroyed. The government on proper proof EciEg made of the loss of bonds or Of their complete destruction by fire, will issue new cnes in their place cr pay the money value of them to the loser. Not very long ago a mass of wet green paper, which was nearly pulp, was sent to the treasury depart ment, with a statement properly veri- fled that the gallon and a half of greasy, bad smelling stuff represented largc sum in the old compound in- terest notes Of 1864 We dried the matter, ar,St then carefully separated it and found that the owners statement was correct. The mcrsy was part of the contents of a safe on board Mis- sissippi steamer that was burned few years ago, and the safe had been at the bottom of the river n-arly a year be- fore the remnant of the boat was raised.
 Five thousand dollars in the same class of notes, viz, those bearing com pound interest, were found in a Sioux Indians tspee by an officer of the army about thirteen years ago, just before the bands under Lame Deer and Sitting Bull ceased their hostilities and crossed over to the British possessions. The bills were Iasted and pinned Cn the walls as ornaments, and with them was a lot of lurid pictures involving murder and outrage, which the noble savage regarded as a triumph in art of the highest type. The officer who dis l covered the bonanza found no difh- culty in purchasing the greenbacks 1 by furnishing in exchange a let of bril- iantly colored chromos, representing ! among other scenes a horse leaping a l valley which appeard to be about 1 seven miles in width, although loaded { with very ferocious looking Indian ! warrior, b5decked in all the blazonry {. 7f paint and war-eag,e plumes, who t. 1ore in his arms the fainting form of a white woman The Indians were de- ighted with the pictures, pronouncing hem good medicine, and offered to purchase the entire collection for ten ponies. a lot of buffalo robes and an old and ugly squaw thrown Il as lagniappe. Needless to say, our 1cung cavalryman declined the last, ut said he would, as a slight token of lis esteem and regard for his rcd riend. donate to him the entira lot, nly asking of the latter in exchange he little green pictures that were OF he walls of his t5pee. The simple ed man immediately closed with the enerous loffer, and, hunting around, unrolled a lot of money he total amount being somewhat over he sum namsd. The chief declined to { tate where it came from, replying 10 Il questions, No, can tell It was opposed, however, to be part of the lurder of some post trader, several f whom were killed and their estab- footed during the Sioux war. fter trying in vain to discover the wner of the money, the officer kept le bills, after making, as he declared, le best financial operation OF record. ..Thn 1,nr,,o1 o1ncn of the treaSurY Qe-