Arizona republican., 1901-05-08
MONEY
Recent Instances; of Skl|fu| 'ea Work Saving II
Hardest Task is Presented by Money That has Been Nibbled by Mice. the Next by Bills That are Charred.

Washington, May 3.-The receipt on
 Friday of six fiye-dollar bills, which
 had passed through the stomach of an
 Iowa goat, and were offered at the terasury department for redemption has revived interest in that division or inc department which concerns itself
 with the redemption of mutilated mon- ey. The bills were the property of C.
 J. Allen, farmer living at ogden la The affidavit which accompanies the
 mass of pulp gave the circumstances under which the bill passed into the stomach of the goat.
 It appears that MT. Allen became warm while doing some manual labor and removed his coat and vest and placed them on fence. The articles of wearing apparel fell from their rest ing place to the ground. and an inquis- ! itiye goat happened along and nosed l inc six five-dollar bills out of the p,,ck- ct. No one saw him eat the bills, but when Mir. Allen replaced the coat and vest he found they had disappeared. A | companion Wagered that the goat had eaten the bills and 1t was agreed that
 if Mir Allen did not find them in the
 goats stomach after 1t was killed the price of the goat would be fol incoming.
 The goat was killed and the bills were found in a little lump in his stomach. When received at the treasury depart ment two Gays ago the mass haL hard ened into little dark brown lump that re semble,l arything but morey The y. A t, | soaked the whole until the mlnr.e inr- tlc,es serarated. Then skiilfrl fingers accustomed to the work separated each piece and in two hours the entire six fve-dollar bills were ready to be sent up stairs to the United States treasury
 for redemption.
 Mir. Allies, assistant secretary of the
 treasury, says that the occurrence was
 anything but a novel one for the gov
 ernment. The task of the departmant
 experts in this case in separating the
 bills was comparatively easy one, and not to be compared with other ones the
 department has had to handle. A few
 weeks ago a case parallel in nearly ev- cry particular with that of the Iowa
 case was presented to the department. A Michigan tax collector, who had little
 faith in banks, stored something like
 $500 In tin can for safe keeping over
 night. and placed the can under his
 house. Ii appears that the house was
 elevated, so that the family goat was
 permitted to walk under it. The next
 morning. just as the tax collectos start
 ed to crawl under the house and bring out the money owed to the county, he I t.s ..t ,x1A
 slowly. chewing on the remnant of a : new twenty-dollar bill The excited collector caught the goat and forced 7 the portion of the bill from his mouth. This was the largest piece found The collector was poor man and was faced with the necessity of making good the amount of funds due his county. He . killed the goat secured the contents of the stomach. made the necessary affi- davit as to the circumstances. sent the matter on to Washington. and within
 ten days had bright, new, crisp bills for the entire amount.
 The regulations of the department re-
 quire that at least three fourths of a t bill shall be recovered before the gov . ernment will pay for the mutilated bill y Each mutilated bill is carefully pasted T on a backing of paper the size of the 2 complete bill. The expert has a piece s of glass of the exact size of the bill q this glass ia divided into forty squares n when placed over the bill. if the expert O can find that the remnants of the bill y fill twenty four of the squares, or three. fifths of all of them, the bill will be re- deemed. .fttt tts.tt lffs | z1Y. ' came from a farmer in St. Clair county d Mo- who. while stopping over to feet l. his hogs. dropped his purse inside th' d pen. An hour later when he missed d his purse, he found the leather recepta y cle inside the pen, but nothing of it T contents. There was a slaughtering y which 1t was his intention not to hay, d until several days later What resem
 bled the money was found and sent oI q to Washington. Three hundred dollor J. was returned to the Missouri farmer. l. b It Is now the custom of the depart Ie ment to return mutilated money foun, Ie by any person to the finder If it is req IS sonably certain the case is bona fid
 find. This was not the case formerly '7 Two negroes found $3.500 in bills tor 'f into small bills on the lake front at Chi m cago six years ago, turned it into tn
 sub-treasury at Chicago for redemption m confessing they had found tht amount st It was forwarded to Washington, bu II the ruling of the department was tha ot it could only be. redeemed when one eH Tn tablished possession of 1t. +t rAl
 The finders got nothing. More recent n ly two negroes found several hundrt' st dollars near the Meramec Heights hl IS tel, not far from St. Louis. They turne pr the money over to the St. Louis sul, g. treasury, and it was sent to Washing 'il ton. The money was sent back fror lg there with the instruction that the dc ,e partment held that unless some on tn came forward and established beyon s. question proprietorship in the money le had been the custom to give 1t to tn te finder. This was the find which wa
 connected by some with the sensatioris of assault which occurred near the resol IS where the money was found.
 es Burned money is the hardest for tn 'e government experts to work on, wit d, the exception of money which has bee CT gnawed by mice. Saturday afternOo a fhara oa mo iufn fha dapa If m mi oi,ya