Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-26 | Page 4 | Returned with Treasures

UJ Not nil oh o of the returning heroes are without money It Is a asserted In the I New ien York that two companies ot of Montana volunteers who came back from Manila on the transport brought with them in gold and MexicAn n silver This Is the story Thill treasure was first discovered b by two men roen at The They were ware the first to enter the town which wan as asery very ery rich tich The two Montana men en ene e ertl n a large mansion but found the Iho place Illace deserted They then wont Into the garden gArdin and In n a corner saw tracos that the soil had recently bt ben tn dug up The prodded the soil Mil with their bayo bayonets nets amt soon oon struck something hard DIgging down they uncovered a la large e chest which contaIned thousands of oC dollars In geld coin The men Who found th the K gold trea u took nil all they could carry cam They then uncovered Q a large filled with Mexican dollars The Themen men ut of the two compAnies wore lined up and marched through the garden and andas as each Inan passed he scooped up dou bl bi handfuls o of silver and filled his On the voyage oage over on the poker vaa 38 the tho favorite pBS pas line chips being worth 5 anI and no limit Some of the mn men lied had liS as much ns as each In gold aud 1111 silver antI with the tho there was d deposited for Cor which no receipts IverO gon ghen the pur purser ser ear Pimply keeping n a memorandum ot of each man I sack