The Republican journal., 1902-01-23

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days and accordingly he gives many
hours every week to, that task.
Senator Hale and Gov. Burleigh are
working admirably this winter IN
double harness. Both are men of care
full business methods, not given to uh-
necessary show or to the heraldlng OF
their undertakings and, as they are
interested in many similar matters
here for Maine people, they go very
frequently together to urge depart
ment officials to favorable action.
Senator Hale appreciates the incessant
activity and good judgment of Gov.
Burleigh on public business, and GOV.
Burleigh profits from the same quail
ties and long experience of his elder
Senator Hale always was an lnyeterate
worker here in Washington, who gain
ed his early ideas of things political
from the late James G. Blaine. Those
two used to cooperate in accomplishing
things for Maine, and now the Senator,
in turn, takes up a younger man, him.
self skilled in public service, to coop
crate with in Congressional affairs as
touching the Pine Tree State. a close
personal friendship cements their
mutual usefulness to each other as we'll
as their usefulness to the large con-
stituency of people they so ably and
faithfully represent in Washington.
DIGGING FOR KIDD'S TREASURES.
SEARSPoRT ME-. Jan. %, 1902 The
appearance of wel-dressed mysterious
stranger about town recently has again
started rumors in relation to kidd's
buried treasure. Being in possession
of a secret connected Herewith we
have now decided to give it to the pub
lie This secret was obtained from
parchment dropped by party from the
Provinces. who came here several years
ago accompanied by former resident,
who left here during the early days OF
the civil war The man who dropped
the parchment was said to have been a
descendant of one who was an otfi-
Ger of Capt. Kidd in his paImy days
and an assistant at the burial of the
treasure, and had carefully preserved
this one of three copies of the follow
ing description of the place where the
deposit was made:
Begin at an old Pine on north
side of PenobscOt bay, at a point that
if looking southerly opens Bagaduce
head to view Just west of Brigadier's
Island: proceed southerly on this line
until highland northeast opens out by
Mack's point, Oh a line due northeast
toward said highland until middle of
point north and south is shown looking
due west: proceed on due west course
until centre of point due east and west
is reached, where at the foot of an oak
tree the only oak on the point is bur
led in three brass bound chests on the
east. west and south sides of this tree,
each three five and seven feet from
east. west and south side of the tree.
Two hundred and forty gold bars eighty
III each chest being the full length
thereof"
The old pine tree that stood just west
of the Navy yard until the Sth of Sept.
gale, 1869, and that was always spoken
of by our oldest inhabitants as having
been there as long ago as they could
remember, must evidently have been the
point of starting; and as there was re-
Gently found. braced up against the
bank, a large, white drift log marking
the spot where the old tree stood, it is
presumed that this stranger had some
thing to do with placing it there, and
that he was seeking for the treasure up
on the courses laid down in the old
parchment.
The numerous holes recently found
by the crew of Mr. A. f. Trundy, who
are chopping on Mack's Point, indicate
that many others have sought the
treasure: and one deep curve found
nearly i'll the center of the point indi-
Gates that the party from the Provinces
above mentioned made deep excava-
lions before being satisfied they were
at fault in locating the spot. Some
of our master mariners are of the
opinion that the wasting away of the
land, both of the point ard of the
island, may so have changed the face of
nature as to account for mistaking
its location. They believe that what
was then the center of the point north
and south may be now nearly at the
waters edge.
Her New Emblems.