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Show MORE KIRTLAND MONEY FLOATING AROUND D. C. Johnson, editor of the Springvlllo Independent, called at Tho Tribune yesterday yes-terday and exhibited a 5100 bank note, issued is-sued by tho Klrtland Safety Society bank to Oraon Pratt on March 0. 1S37. The noto wns signed by Joseph Smith. Jr., cashier, end by Sidney Rlgdon, president. Tho note bears a picture of the signing of tho Declaration of Independence, nnd Is in an almost perfect state of preservation. Mr. Johnson received tho noto from his father, Aaron Johnson, moro than thirty yvars nKO. Johnson, tho cldor, lost all his worldly world-ly possessions through investment In Klrtland. Klrt-land. O. Ho was nlHO the first settler at Bprinsrville. locating in that valley In IS50. |