The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-05-08
A FIND OF
 GREENBACKS
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 on the Indiana side of the Ohio river. | found a satchel which had been placed between two powders SO that 1t was securely hidden from anything except chance discovery. One might have stood within three feet of 1t and been none the wiser. The satchel was lock cd but used a stone to break 1t open and the first glance jumped my heart into my throat The satchel was full of crisp. new greenbaeks in packages of S1.OOO each. Even after l took one of the packages in my hand and care fuuy inspected the bills I was not oulte sure whether l was awake or dreaming There were packages or ones. twos. fyes and tens, and every bin was fresh from the treasury at
 Washington. counted twenty-seyen.
 week previous to the And | had read an account in the papers or the robbery of an army paymaster at Mad isop. and | at once realized that this money was a portion Of the spells Nevertheless was determined to Keep the money. We are all honest until tempted. Some of us can be bought for n few hundred dollars. while oth- CTS demand thousands. Replacing the money in the satchei. started for home. didn't propose to share the secret of the find with any one even 1T I shared the contents later on. there fore made my way to the barn and put inc satchel in a safe place. l was fully
 half m hour making up my mind
 where to deposit 1t. There were sey- eral tons Of hay in the now, and l finally climbed up and dug a hole in one corner and deposited my trea,T'
 On the third morning of my pf ees- sion. while we were eating brs aSt'
 my uncle. with whom war .rpo-
 rarily staying. mentioned the S,ct that a tramp had come late In the evening after had gone to bed and had been
 given shelter in the barn. He had, to my uncle's great surprise, got up and cleared out without asking for any ,,,sue to eat. It struck me all of a sud Io, tbss thearamp had found and car rlcd off my prize. and. getting away from the tatse as soon as l could, l hrr,5cd to the barn to make an in- ros,i-otson. Everything in the hay now yraAasN had left it. but when l dnc doVvutin ,the corner it was 70 find my worsd tears realized. The satchei and money were gone.
 The furtber>ndyentures Of the satchel covered a apgeC of months. The tramp took inc Itlgtway for Jasper, In a southwest direction. and by getting a nm win n teGmster be made about twenty-five mges that first day. While he was dressed ike a tramp the team ster was satisASd that he was not one Perhaps the questions he asked trignt ened the man ingo doing whatthe did After leaving the9 teamster heientfre' a country schooih,Ouselandihid the non ey ln the garret. It was one stor! structure. with a Dow garTet reiiche' by n scuttle in tlAe ceiling. About thre'
 weeks after the money had been placed ln the garrett the ehlm uey of the school house was struck byN Lightning and tumbled to the ground. "A farmer who was also bricklayer,wts employed to
 >bulld the chimney. ln\so doing he ~ ~, tho @tchel, and> not\one dollar oS tbe moStey was LS'ssinS' , '' rho Sue o Sa.n Ner no sooner realized the volnS os bls Tpd than he aetermineu 70 sSen Sa1' every ", -, do Var of it for himset. He Snoy, Sg 'r rory Y Tro,. though, that 1t was a rarn,r, nJS" ,',y c, "S so,n, Nsort, and he moved coroS,1v Uo 6 scided not to let hls wife know of the Dno, unu sue ..,a,a,. was removed after dark 70 'uy et e,st In hls barn. He b, N ,o' VI o one Of the bins, and ee n'u 'NV " ~ under them. He had Nln nIs ei"t-oS hlred man named Csc. VI Da.'', " y must have had hls GU uSsI' a1g s and played the spy on S iaIuie ' one of his excursions to .he sraI h On the eighth night of , ne Iast nS possession Of the treasure OaNH bis bed at midnight, went tne D and prled the lock off the gra. luIy u' and be soon had hls hands or a4lSuels CdAuVl hAg MutNhel an honest man or not. If SO ,At e doubt argued as the farmer an, IT done. He picked up the satch e
 walked or. In the morning whC a farmer discovered hls loss and f, h9 cd him he kept the trail tnroug bsl town of Jasper and for Ave mile bA yond. Then Davis seemedl to thhN dropped suddenly out of sight
 After getting safe away the hTet man felt that be would be followed and be found a hiding place for the satchel where 1t had been hidden twice before-ln barn. It was an old, tum- ble down affair. however, in which even a tramp would not have sought shelter. Having put away the money he applied for work on the farm and secured lt. There be remained for two months, when the satchel was found to be missing. taken by whom no one could say. Two weeks later, however, as I was riding Into Salem with my uncle. we came upon a tramp sitting by the roadside with that very satchel beside him, and as leaped out of tho