| Show DEATH OR INSANITY the insanity of a man who was searching for supposed buried treas ure near columbia city adds another chapter to a tradition which has been current in this stute state from the earliest pioneer days Itis it is said that in 1841 a spanish bark dropped anchor opposite the present town site of C columbia city and near the farm now owned by hez copier there was a large amount of treasure aboard the vessel and the crew conspired to obtain pos possession bession of it they mutinied mutinies muti nied assassinated the captain and buried the gold and sil oil ver some where on the copier farm some say that the treasure was buried before the captain was killed and that the man who buried it mysteriously i disappeared immediately afterward others claim that it was buried after the mutiny and that the men man were frightened away by a band of red skins at any rate the mutineers muti failed to find the treasure when they returned others who became acquainted with the fact that a great fortune had been buried on or near Cop Copier lers 8 farm wade made unsuccessful efforts to find it but always with serious consequences to one or more of the searching parties ata at a spiritualistic meeting in this city some five or six years ago a spiritualist claimed to have a revelation vela tiou as to the identical spot where the spaniards had bad covered cove reI up their ill gotten wealth several spiritualists reposing confidence in thia the revelation visited copler collera Co s farm and after searching several days discovered a large deposit of small rucks rocks at a depth of a foot and supposed sed the money to be buried CO beneath I it while they were at work removing the rocks one of the men dropped dead created such consternation among the rest that the party aban abandoned boned their labors no further efforts to secure the hidden treasure were put forth until last week when another party went on the wild goose chase among them was william matthews who succeeded im ia locating the rock deposit while belving underneath it he struck a massof mass of human bones during the few moments consumed in examining them matthews was transformed into a raving maniac after that his bis associates also abandoned the work matthews was brought to this city on the steamer alarm and is now under the care of friends who will cause his hill removal to the insane asylum should lie he not soon recover his reason robe globe democrats portland |
