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Show UlI 1WNIW. jatal Spot Seat Copier's Parm WherQ g Treasara of Great Value lies Buried. I IE SAFE TOE ALL TIME TO COME. ive Thousand Lepers A ' Brakeman Strangely Hurt Contradicted By a Cyclone. CoC- st. Louis Globe-Democrat. aujaidthat in 1841 a Spanish bark bnoed anchor opposite the present town Kcotambia City, and near the farm downed by Hez Copier. There was a Id amount of treasure aboard the "Eland the crew conspired to obtain. Session of it. Thoy mutinied, assfts-S assfts-S the captain and buried the gold . gjiver somewhere on the Copier farm. tine y t08 tTCa8ure was buried fore the captain was killed, and that timan who buried it mysteriously dis-npeared dis-npeared immediately afterward. Others ten that it was buried after the mutiny, ad that the men were frightened away i band of red skins. At any rate the intaera failed to find the treasure when to returned. Others who became ac-aainted ac-aainted with the fact that a great forme for-me had been buried on or near Copier's inamaile unsuccessful effort to find it, t always with serious consequences to mot more of the searching parties, it a spiritualistic meeting in this city, m five or six years ago, a Spiritualist ijjmed to have a revelation as to the Ijjtifil spot where the Spaniards had ivered up their ill gotten wealth. Sev-ra Sev-ra Spiritualists, reposing confidence in he revelation, visited Coplor's farm, and iter searching several days discovered j :. donosit of small rocks at a depth ! i foot, and supposed tho money to be iried beneath it. While they were at ictk removing the rocks one of tho men pipped dead. This created such con-emation con-emation among the rest that the party landoned their labors. So farther efforts to secure the hidden Mure were put forth until last week, hen another party went on this wild , chase. Among them was William latthews, who succeeded in locating the ict deposit. While delving underneath Wrack a mass of human bones. Dur-5 Dur-5 the few momenta consumed in ex-amingthem ex-amingthem Matthews was transformed ito a raving maniac. After that his as-tistes as-tistes also abandoned the work. Mat-lewswas Mat-lewswas brought to this city on the etmer Alarm, and is now under the ire of friends, who will cause his re-nival re-nival tt the insane asylum should be ut soon recover his reason. '" v" |