The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-05-17
REVEALED BY GHOST.
DEPARTED ANCESTOR APPEARS
TO HALF. wITTED BOY.
Discloses to Him the Whereabouts of
an Immense Treasure. Which, When
Dug Up, Enables the Boys Father TO
Buy an Island.

Dug Up, Enables the Boys Father TO
Buy an Island.
From the eastern shore Of Maryland
comes a ghost story that forms part or
the history of Sharp's Island. Visitors
1 to the island will be shown a hole out
OF which. tradition has it. there was
dug great treasure which was discover
ed through the assistance of the spirit
of departed ancestor The treasure
enabled the finder 10 buy the entire
Island.
This. of course, happened years ago,
when land was not as valuable as it Is
in those parts to-day, but. nevertheless
from what can be ascertained, a very
good price was paid for the island. The
purchaser of the latter was known to
be a tiller of the soil. He was rather
thrifty, and managed to live In com
Portable style He was married, and
all of the members of his family with
one exception were very bright and
handsome. The one exception was a
boy, who was considered half-witted
Every effort was made by his parents
to give all of their children the best
education obtainable In that section.
The unfortunate member of the family
was allowed all kinds of privileges and
almost every within was humored.
When he grew up 1t was his delight to
assist in the gardening. No restraint
was placed upon him, and he could
come and go as he chose. He had a
habit Of working all by himself. One
day, after he had been at his usual oc-
cupation, he rushed into the house and
said that an old man had been talking
to him In the garden, and told him
where lots of treasure was hid. On ac-
count of the condition of the child his
father said "All right" and told the
boy that some day the treasure would
be dug up. The chances are that he
would not have paid any attention to
his more responsible sons. The next
day about the same time the lad again
went to his father. and said that the
old man had again been talking to him
about the treasure, and told him to go
and dig for 1t. He described the old
man as wearing a nut-brown suit Of
clothes cut in the colonial fashion, with
knee breeches, stockinged shank, slip
pers with big buckles and a three-cor-
nered hat. The father said that he
would go out and talk to the man him
self just to please the child, but, to the
establishment of the latter, the man had
gone.
This was ! mystery to the youngster,
who was sure that he could not have
walked half a dozen PAGES away. but to
the father it seemed like the hallucina-
ton of half-wltted being. Nothing
further was thought Of the matter, and
about a week later the child again APP
preached his father and mother and
hurried them out into the garden to see
the old man whom he had been talking
about, but he couldn't be seen any
where, much to the chagrln Of the boy
The latter thought the old man was
mean" and be was comforted as best
he could be and taken indoors. On ar
irving in one of the rooms where a pic
ture of one OF the supposed ancestors
hung up against the wall the boy cried
out, That's. him. He told me about
the gold and money" The family held
consultation about the matte. and
told the boy that when next the man
appeared to get the exact location OF
the treasure. The man appeared once
more, and the boy did as requested. A
few days later the neighbors were sur
prised to learn that the farmer had pur-
chased the entire island and was max
ing extensive preparation for ball to
be given at his place. Less than a
week before he was known to have
only a little more money than was actu-
ally necessary to maintain his family,
and 1t was a mystery as to where he
secured money enough to make all the
expenditures that he had. The mys-
terry continued for years. when Z
above story accidentally leaked out,
and other visitors to the island will be
shown a hole upon the land where the
family originally lived, and out Of
which the treasure was dug. The peo-
Pile all through Maryland place their
faith In this story.