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Show FOUND LArtOBBUMS Or MOUEY A Kama ftolillrr wllh r Soae for IIM- It would seem that Lloyd Ilrown, a Wichita (Kan) soldier boy In the Philippines. Is possessed of either n good note fox hidden money or of that robust Imagination which has led so many Wichita writers on to fame. In a letter to a Kansas City paper ho says " hen wo captured ludan we found t"J,t.C0 In Mexican money. We bad taken possession of the hospital and I went upstairs to find a place to sleep and I thought I would look around and aeo what I could find I saw some sacks that I supposed to be filled with grain, and 1 took out my knife and ripped ono of them open, You can Imagine my surprise when, Instead of horse feed, thero rolled out dollars and half dollars In tho moment that It took mo to regain my breath from the shock occasioned by finding moro than I could carry off, tho sergeant major of tho Fourth cavalry came up, and aa ho happened to know whero tho colonel was, reached lilm and reported the find as his own beforo I could find the colonel. Tho money was turned over to den. Schwan, nnd 1 havo learned alnco that tho sergeant major was given n part of It I hate gathered up coins from nearly every country of tho world While I was on tho south lino wo came upon a large stono cross away up In tho mountains, and at tha bottom of tho cross was n crick thre Inches long nnd one wide Wo camped thero that night, and aa I was sitting nenr by I noticed several natives drop somic thlng like money When they had gono I tried tu get Into It but could not. That night some ono tied somo horses to tho cross nnd It fell down, revealing reveal-ing a nolo nearly deep enough for a man to stand erect lu, which contained about tight bushels of pennies, which had been accumulating thero for hundreds hun-dreds of years, no doubt, for I found several old coins, tho oldest bearing the dato of 1301 No one took any of tho money except as curios." |