The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
M|SSOUR|ANS D|G FOR HIDDEN GOLD Still Seek QuantrelPs Buried
 Treasure BUSHWHACKER'S SINEWS Hundreds of Holes Have Been Dug In Vain Effort To Find Alleged
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Independence (Mo) Dispatch to New York
 Herald
 A hundred men in Jackson county have dug for hidden gold. The marauding of Quantrelrs bushwhackers and the Red Legs of Kansas and the concentration of southern sympathizers by order No. Il caused many families to bury money, plate and other valuables for safety until times of peace. Often the families were extinct when the war ended or those who knew the treasures location were dead, and the valuables remained in the ground. In various parts of the county, especially near Independence, thousands in money, jewels and family papers are buried and forgotten Hundreds of holes have been dug to find these treasures and new generation is now trying its hand at the game. If any one has found a fortune the fact has been concealed.
 Matt Gossett, a grocer, is the only man who is known to have found any, thing, and his search was rewarded only by a pile of guns, revolvers, clothing, shoes and other articles believed to have been taken from federals by bushwhack- CTS and buried for future use.
 ''The find was in the Round Grove dis trict" said MT Gossett, 'and I dug around the place, but never found any thing else. It was commonly believed during the latter part of the war that Quantrell buried his Lawrence plunder there"
 Experience In Treasury Hunting.
 Horace Shelley, an attorney, tells his experience in treasure hunting:
 There are two stories about Quan trells treasure. One is that the money was buried near Round Grove Creek, where it still remains and the other is that it was dug up by Charles Higbee, who helped bury it. Higbee was in Independence after the death of Quan- trell in KentuckY and then disap- peared. He went to Texas, where he died No one knows whether he got any of the money.
 t" flick Stoval, a member of Quan- trells band, believed the money was still buried. He and I went to Round Grove Creek several years ago and dug in several places that Stoval re- membere as camping grounds and promising spots, but we didn't get any thing except blisters on our hands,"
 Grain Valley has it's Quantrell TO- nance. Either girl or treasure brought Martin Potts back to a spot northeast of the village after the war. Potts had been confidential adviser of Quantrell and was supposed to know where the places were that the bush whacker had his sinews of war. Grain Valley believed that one of tn csc caches was northeast of the town and that Potts knew it's location. So Potts made tho mistake of visiting Grain Valley. He made the furth CT mistake of going a mile northeast alone and in the evening. Whether the bushwha ok CT kissed his girl the last time that night, or whether he loaded up with what pirate tales call the yellow boys" no one knows, but he was found slain in Lafayette county few miles from Grain Valley several days later.
 Looked Like Prairie Dog Town.
 Then the Grain Valley folk began to dig and made the district look like a prairie dog town, but nothing resulted beyond a changed landscape and a sound sleep from healthful exercise.
 And when all was said and done, no one knew whether Martin Potts carried away the treasure and lost 1t to rob- bers or whether 1t still remains hidden. There is s5OO0 somewhere under the sod