The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-11-20

number Of steps from both, we're by
I him put on paper The wife did not
know Of anyone to whom she could
trust her secret with safety hence.
he decided as She and her only child
a small boy. of six summers. had
suHiciency Of this worlds goods to
insure them from want the rest of
their life without this gold, she would
let the matter rest until her son could
grow up and make the trip himself.
In 1882 tall. middle aged man cal
led at the home of Joe Poulanger. an
Usage citizen. aud asked for his din
ner. After partaking Of his dinner he
sauntered out into the yord and for
the first time gazed upon Artillery
mound a most impressive peak. and
knew at once that was one of the
points he was looking for and he was
iubilant for the moment. but it was
just for the moment for on turning his
eyes to the south he saw where once
stood a dense forest of trees now was
a beautiful valley yielding with each
season of the year its share of grain
Again entering the house he entered
a conversation with Mr.. Boulangcr
and found thai RJulanger had cleared
the land himself and remembered dis
tinctly the two big trees on one trunk
and of an old musket In the hollow
of another. Like all Indians he pos
sessed remarkably good memory
and was quite sure he could come
within fifty feet OF picking the spot
where both the double tree and the
tree with the musket stood
Mr. Boulanger without any knowl-
edge of what the man was looking
for kindly showed him where he
thought the marks were. but. several
days digging by the stranger did not
bring de9ired results and. the strang-
er never having much faith that l.
could be found from the first day he
arrived on the scene soon gave up
hope and started for hs home in Mis-
souri,. Before leaving he informed
Mr. Boulanger of his mission here and
ked him fine found the gold to at
least send him a part of it,
No sep was ever taken by Mr.. Bou-
langer to find the gold or by anyone
else until 1901, when Mr. Boulanger
noticed deep hole in the center of
his corn Gcid one morning that had
APPARENTLY been dug during the night.
The following morning Mr.. Boulanger
! notieea that the hole had been dug
deeper during the night and he decid.
ed that 1t was some one who knew
about the gold being buried on the
farm and was trying to find it. and
decided he would sit up that night and
catch the fellow at IL Although he
sat up all night he was unable to lind
whore any work had been done and
the following night did not lay awake
bothering about it as he supposed the
fellows had given it up as a bad job.
About this he was mistaken for on
the following night the fellows seem
cd to dig up with renewed energy.
Things were getting IN a bad way
with him for the fellows were greatly
injuring his field by digging deep
holes and he went to the Usage agen-
cy and reported the matter to the
United States Indian agent and he
ssnt policemen out to guard the field.
This had the desired effect and since
then no one has ever attempted to
find the gold Mr.. Boulanger would
not care If people would DIG TO-. the
gold if they would level the ground in
as good a condition as before they
began to dig It up and he knew he
could get a part of it
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