Show 975 HIDDEN IN BASEMENT Honest Jap Servant Rewarded by Indiana In-diana Mans Estate Now Albany Ind Nearly 1000 In gold silver and greenbacks was found several days ago In tho basement of tho house at Los Angeles Cal built by tho late Merrill A Weir a native of Salem Ind and for many years cashier of the Now Albany National bank In this city who died two years ago his wife dying a few months later Tho money was found by a Japanese Georgo Mokogowa who had been employed em-ployed to clean up tho premises by a tenant The latter gave the money amounting to 975 to tho administrator administra-tor of Mrs Weirs estate The administrator admin-istrator of Mr Weirs estate was also notified and by agreement 100 was given to the honest Jap and the remainder re-mainder was turned Into the Joint estate es-tate It was common talk In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of tho Weir home that money was hidden about the premises ana tho occupants of tho house wore frequently fre-quently bothered by persons agkn I b permission to dig In the garden Mr Weir lost considerable money In tho banking business at Sail Diego Cal during tho panic days about 14 year s ago Neither he nor his wife left a will and tho estate valued at 25000 is now In litigation heirs to both claiming an Interest |