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Show ' FIREMEN DISCOVER I CASH IN OLD SHACK KANSAS CITY, Mo . Oct. 21 Firemen Fire-men found a modern Silas Alarm r here Friday. Responding to an alarm trom the. Missouri ley ee, firemen discovered nearly $2000 In currency concealed lu a i.icjged mattress In a two-room tumble-down shack. The bills were in denominations of 1, 2. $5. and $10. They totuled S1.3S7 according to Alex Henderson. fire chief. The coin were, tied in small tobacco sacks 176 silver dollars. 369 half dollars, 285 quarters and about 40U dimes. 430 nickles and almost obuntless pennies. The money which nearly filled a fire bucket, was taken to the central flro station. No ono was ln the shack when the , flro broke out. John Jackson, about ' 70 years old; the owner of the shack. WaS In a hospital as tho result of a broken leg, recolvcd a week ago w hen bis horse ran away. A peddlor of let and coal on the North Side for more than 40 years, he wa fnmj larly known bv his customers as "Yohennv ( "i. iison." |