The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-24

| 1t is not strange to learn that the
announcement of the discovery of va
rious $50 gold certificates among the
weeds or certain section of Leaven-
worth has attracted an unusual crowd
OF treasure seekers. 1t was ever thus.
The plains of Kansas were strewn with
the bones OF those who persisted on
their way to California long before
Kansas was dreamed of as a sovereign
state. The terrors of Alaskan snow
covered trails were forgotten by the
crowd that flocked to the Klondike
diggingS. Easy money needs no mega
phone to shout it's attractions and the
chance of plucking few bits of cur
rency off the bushes is call that has
carried far. Many no doubt have left
steady jobs for a week or two to take
the gamblers chance on being the one
to turn over the bit of dirt or lift the
right board to disclose a handful of
the coveted bills. According to the
story, there must be $4,000 to $40, 900
hidden somewhere about the premises
and the capital prize is worth the
working Tor, reason these descendants
of the Captain Kidd treasure hunters
I ct to the practical man who prefers
the pay check in the hand to two gold
certificates in the bush, the quest will
be foolishness and wasted labor. Some
may come away with a fine bunch of
bills for the few hours search; but
taken on the whole the man who
checks in at the factory or the office
or with the gang will be ahead at tho
should compensate anything that
might be lost in the way of wages
Salina Journal
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GONE GLIMMERING
Away out at Halstead the independent
claims that the people of its town drop-
PED fifty thousand dollars in the Portland
cement company that went to the wall
IN IN humboldt. Why did the people of
Halstead invest $4,000 or any other sum
in an industry 200 miles from home that
they knew nothing about? Why are Kan
sas people doing that every day?
Right here In Lawrence people have
been sending money to plantations and
will-o-the-w isps of mines and wells all
over the world, taking it out of circula-
ton at home, and taking risks ten thou
SAND miles away that they would shy at
If offered here at home. why do they do
that? Merely because some fellow with
smooth tongue and no conscience fakes
them out of it, talks faster than their
brains can move, and gets away with his
pipe dream and their money. 1t is a safe
bet that half a million dollars of Law
renee money is tied up today in schemes
far away from home that are so danger
Gus and tickle that the stock could not
be sold on any market in the world. These
investors are fondly hoping that some
day ship will come loaded with gold,
or oranges or oil enough to make the
owner of every share of stock a Million
aire. The man who sold them the stock
said that would happen, and like the
trusting child they confidently look for
the happening every day.
The chances are that every one of them
will discover did the Halstead people
who let GO of the 5000 on the Humboldt
money for the last time. and that they
should have kissed it goodbye when It
went The only consolation about It Is
that if they had not plunged with their
money into this particular thing, they
might have gone into something worse
Lawrence Gazette.