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Show NOW FOR ANOTHER STAMPEDE AFTER BURIED TREASURE PROADPH, Mont, Feb. 17 I Twenty-two barrels of whlky ' cached in 1874 by General Custer 1 and General Reno, when they were pursued by Indians. Is believed by M. C. tiilmore. 5, said to le Montana's Mon-tana's oldest white resident, to be buried spe where near the fr.rk of the Uig "iwder river nnd Cache creek, twenty miles from here. Mr. Gilmore, who was a member of the party which buried the whisky, has been unable to locatv Ixne cacne necaus re ininKs, ire i courses of the river and the creek J have changed many times since 1K74 I When the whisky wa csched, Mr. Gilmore declared recently the soldiers buried It about four feet f under the surface and (hen trampled tram-pled down the soil. ! A small bra cannon was de- j atroyed near tit cache ut the same j time. Mr. Gilmure said that up to j fifteen years ago pieces of the can- f non remained pear the forks. |