The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-06
STRANGE TALES OF HIDDEN
TREASURES WHICH HAVE
BEEN UNEARTHED.

Wells foundered in gale. about
80 miles off the eastern cast Of
North Carolina. There was only
! one survivor Of the wreck-Chas.
, Taylor, who was on his way from
; Wilmington, N. c., to Norfolk, Va,
as messenger. He was, perhaps,
1 the only man who could not swim,
, and he was also in poor health.
| When the brig went down the men
were swept overheard into a rag
| ing sea, and Taylor caught hold Of
some of the wreck stuff and dashed
| himself fast until driven ashore on
Roanoke island. He was weak and
| i'll and for "a hours had nothing to
| eat. At the end Of that time he set
out inland, in hopes of finding a
settler, but had not dragged him
self over a half a mile from the
beach when he was compelled to
rest at the foot of a tree. He was
leaning against it when some small
animal ran out of a hollow in the
trunk and gave him a bad scare.
The shipwrecked man turned to ex-
anime the tree, and he found a hol-
low starting at the ground and
running up about four feet.
The opening was about two feet
across at the bottom, and, as Tay-
lor looked in, he discovered a jap
AIMED box, about 16 inches long
by IL wide. The box was fastened
with a paddock, and, from its con-
dition, seemed to have been there
two years.
The man at once hunted around
for means to smash the paddock,
and when the box was opened he
found that it was packed full of
money-bank bills. Four-fifths of
the bills were on northern banks
and the bulk of them were OF large
denominations. The sum total was
over $4,000, and there was nothing
ing in the box to convey a hint as
to where the money came from or
whom it belonged to. Taylor stored
the money away on his person and
buried the box, and as there were
several settlers on the island he
soon found relief and was in a day
or so sent across to the main land
He went to Plymouth, where he
had relatives, buried the money I'M
til he could look about and find
an investment, and had not used
500 of the money when the war
came on and rendered the whole
worthless.
1t was only IL or IA years ago
that a queer thing happened near
Medina, o. A tin peddler who was
driving a wagon was taken sick
one day in summer, as he was driv-
ing and he sought shelter in farm
| house. He had a run of fever for
seven or eight days, and when able
to get out again, he said to the
owner of the farm:
81 am satisfied that there is a
sum of money buried on your farm.
| have seen the spot seven or more
times in my dreams.
"Oh," said the farmer, eff you
can find any treasure here you are
welcome to it."
"How much will you take to
waive all claims?" said the peddler.
give dollars worth of milk
pans"
"If you will go to town and get
a lawyer to draw up the papers in
due form, will give you $25 in
cash.
The farmer tried to laugh the
peddler out of his notion, but the
man was so earnest in wishing to
buy all right to what he might find
that a paper was drawn up, the $25
paid over, and he was told to go
ahead. He replied that he was in
no hurry, and mounted his wagon
and drove home, and in about a
fortnight returned with horse and
wagon and a companion. Giving
notice that he had come to claim
his own he proceeded to dig in the
corner Of the front yard, and be
fore the hole was three feet deep
he had unearthed a small stone
jug, tightly corked. It was broken
on the grass plat, and lying among
the fragments weer $4,000 in gold
and silver coins. None of the pieces
had been voined within less than Is
years, and the then owners of the