White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-23

rest untouched in the grayeyard-l
will bury the peoples money III the
cemetery" The cemetery was two
blocks west of his residence OH Broad
way. II ran along Pennsylvania ave
nue. from Twelfth to Eleventh streets
on the east and west about 80 feet
from what is now the line OF
Jefferson street. The ~erayedigger
lived near by. Carrying the money IN
a large wooden box. Father Donnelly
went in tire dead of night to the sex
tons house, aroused him and told INN
10 get a ~wheelbarrow, a spade and a
broom. Together they entered the
graveyard and soon found n plot OF
grass growing in Il pathway. The SOD
was carefully removed, a hole dug and
the box buried. Then ile sod WAS re-
placed and the loose dirt carefully
swept away.
Sections Tongue Wagged.
The next night word came to ta'
fher Donnelly. that Tom, the old sex
tou. under the Influence of IL Few
drinks, had diyulscd the secret IN n
croud in u saloon at Main and Eighth
streets. After Il hurried consultation
four trn,ty men, armed with shotgunS
aud led by Father Donnelly, went to
the cemetery. dug np h treasure
again and buried II anew back of the
little brick church. After the guard
retired the priest began worrying
about the security of his new hiding
place aud before daylight he Went
alone. with no prSins eyes and no one
TO be burdcnell with the temptation of
his confidence. dug UP the box a sec
ond time and gave it another burial
in a remote spot some distance north
of lis second hiding place, pacing the
distance between them and marking
down as he thought. the accurate meas
nrements and landmarks of the new
depository.
The battle of Weslinort came ol.
The three days that the battle was
waged from the Kansas state line
through weStport toward what Is now
Swope park We're busy days for Ia
Their Donnelly. Ills good Offices as
priest aud nurse we're in constant lie
mand. The dead and dying filed The
homes all along the country ! q ad-
jacent to the battle ground. Wien
Price retired south the priest returned
TO continue his Samaritan work In the
i~mproyised hospitals Of the city. 1t
was q month before he was able to
resume his duties In the church again.
When hr wa able 10 return 10 his
own house his first thought was OF the
buried treasure. He thought il would
be best Ia transfer The box 10 his
house and call upon the owners I"
come and get their money. Taking a
spade he went out under cover III
night and dug in the spot where he
was sure the box had been hidden.
An hours labor brought nothing To
light. With anxious forebodings he
went back and measured the PAGES hs
had counted from the angles of the
church and dug ~again-mosed a few
feet further and du. a~gain-then a
few feet further northward-but there
was no box. Daylight found him still
fruiilessly digging. SIle next night
was a repetition OF tue previous one.
followed by The startling conviction
that he had hidden too we'll or some
one had spied too keenly. The box
was never found.
Father Donnelly. when he had alan
doned all hope of recovering the buried
money. went to a friendly banker.
Z.As...t. Il ttu. Gums fI,at 1ial
been placed in his hands and Dor
rowcl the money necessary to repay
them, giving q mortgage On some farm
lands rs security. As the claims were
presented he paid them on.
Ten years a%ftcrward Father Don
nelly WAS stricken with fever. There
was no hospital here then and no pro-
fessional nurses. lie was cared for
by his aged sister and two nieces in
his home and lie good sisters OF st.
! Teresa's academy lent their aid. One
night he seemed much improved and
his relatives and the sisters felt that
he could pass the night without at
tendance. He had told them 81 and
begged them to 20 to their homes.
Early the next morning the sisters
went to his door. found it open and
the patient gone. An alarm was
spread and after SONS time spent IN
anxious research the venerable priest
Was found. in spare attire, digging in
the graveyard. In his delirium he had
fancied that the lost treasure had been
moved back to It's first hiding place.
4 few years again and Father Don
nelly was himself carried Ia the Gene
.ery and. like his wooden box and its
enforced trust. some time later he was
taken up and buried in another grave
in the basement of the new cathedral,
where, "after life's fitful fever he
sleeps we'll
10 The lasl days of his life the
buried treasure was III his mind. Its
disappearance Was a mystery that has
never been explained. Whether in
tho exeitnmput nf the times hp had