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A RECORD CROP
The Liar Tells, While the
Train Waits, of a Sub
terranean Yield.
We were waiting at Manhattan,
Kans., for a west-bound Rock Island
train. The string of coaches, one of
which was partially inhabited by The
Liar and myself, had backed into a
siding, and the engine stood gazing
like an angry cat in the presence of
a cross dog. It was midnight, and we
were anxious to reach McFarland
Junction before the east-bound from
Denver should leave the ancient and
filthy union station.
On piles of lumber and ties by the
tracks, underneath the water tank,
and on the bare, wet ground itself,
the prone forms of “bums” were re
vealed by ‘the soft, clear moonlight.
The train-crew stood huddled in lan
tern-lit groups, talking lowly, and cast
ing watchful eyes toward the negligee
heaps of humanity.
“They’ll be tryin’ to get on nine
when she comes west, if her crew
doesn’t keep their eyes skinned,” said
the brakeman. “I had to smash one
of ’em t'other night. T told him to
git off the pilot, an’ he damned me
an’ was githin’ ready to hit me. 1
seen it was him or me, an’ I smashed
my lantern on ’em right quick. He
got off. An’ he didn’t say nuthin’,
neither.”
“Where are they all headed for?” I
asked. - ,
“Headed for? Why, the wheat har
vest and thrashin’, of course. They're
all makin’ for West and Northwest.’
“Speakin’ of wheat harvests,” began
The Liar, as he reached out and kick
ed a piece of coal into the ditch, “re
minds me of my bovhood. I was
talking with one of these farmers
around Clay Center the other day, and
he told me a peculiarity of this year’s
crop was the shortness of the straw,
and the heaviness of the head. He
said the crop looked bad and short,
but that in the thrashing it turned out
wonderfully. :
“Once, when I was a little fellow,
down in southern Ohio hills, my father
raised a crop of buckwheat like that.
It was awful late coming up, and we
thought of resowing it. Just about
the time we were getting ready to sow
it again in buckwheat, or put it in
turnips, we noticed the ground crack
ing all over, and bumping up in a few
million spots. Father got down and
brushed away the dirt in a place or
two, and there came the leaves and
buds already to bloom. That buck-
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wheat was doing subterranean stunts
for fair.
“We let it alone, and pretty soon
she peered above the ground in full
bloom. She got about six inches tall,
and there she stopped and ripened.
Got dead-ripe, without a single inch
of stock showing above the ground.
“Then we were up against it about
the harvesting business. We couldn’t
cut the stuff—no scyths or reaper
would reach it—not even a sickle or
reap hoop would get haif the grain.
“While we were puzzling over this,
grand pap came to the rescue. He had
been sitting around for vears living in
the past, talking about his boyhood,
and ignoring the present. When he
found out what the difficulty was in
that buckwheat proposition, the old
chap shook himself together and
seemed to lose thirty or forty years
of his age. He took an ax, put on his
hat, yelled, ‘Come on, boys,’ and he
led off to the woods. We followed.
Selecting some little saplings just
the right size, he cut us all a flail
apiece, and then for the buckwheat
patch. Led and directed by grandpap,
we flailed that buckwheat right where
it stood. The ground was loose and
dry, and it got so dusty we couldn’t
see a thing; but we flailed and tramp
ed right on, beating the daylights out
of that crop. ;
“Finally, the old man got down and
examined the headth that stuck up
through the dry and new pulverized
spil, and found that all the grain had
been separated. Then he sent father
—bessing the job with all the import
ance yvou ever saw— for the road
serapers (my father was supervisor)
and we got busy shoveling up that
eron, dust and all, and hauling it to
the barn near by. First, we poured it
all through a cocksieve and an old
threshing machine screen we had,
then we put the stuff through a fan
nirg mill, and we got out of that
Huckwheat patch more than fifty
bushels of clean grain to the acre.
“But that field would never raise
anvthing after that. We had carted
all the scil away, and what was left
had the ginger so taken out of it by
that enormous buckwheat crop that
vou couldn’t raise objections on 1t
Just then “Nine” whistled and 2
white light showed away down the
line toward the east.
The brakeman started back toward
his train.
“Come on, fellers,” he said, “vou're
likely to get left. When that ‘nine’
goes by here we go out of here like a
bat out of hell.”
And we did.
THE CHICKEN PIE HOUSE.
Famous Hostelry at Smithville Again
Changes Hands.
Mr. George Dozier and family have
moved from Morgan to Smithville to
raals iheir future home, and will run
the McAfee hotel at that place. Mr.
Paul Dozier has succeeded Mr. George
Dozier as proprietor of the hotel and
livery stables in Morgan.:
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Thousands Were Killed.
. Over in and around the Philippine
islands they have had a severe ty
phoon which wrought great devasta
tion to both life and property. Amer
jcan interests are badly paralyzed,
especially the ships and other coast
defenses. It is reported that 10,000
people were killed. ;
The Dawson News. Wednesday, October 3, 1906.
MOSQUITOES FINE HEN FODDER,
SAYS GENIUS FROM LONG ISLAND
Often Wondered What Lord Created Them for, But Solved Mystery
When He Began Feeding Them to the Biddies.
1t has remained for William A.
Woodbury, of New York, to discover
that the mosquito has a- commercial
value, and that it should be cultivated
instead of eradicated.
Mr. Woodbury is the man who
gained notoriety a year ago by offering
a reward of $l,OOO for a married man
that could prove that he was perfectly
contented. The reward was never
paid.
Mr. Woodbury has a summer home
on Oak Island, just across the water
frcm Long Beach, L. L.
“While I was a sworn enemy at
first,” said Mr. Woodbury, “I now
know that mosquitoes were sent here
for some purpose. 1 have discovered
that mission. '
“There is nothing in the world that
ducks‘and chickens thrive on so much
ac¢ they do on flies and mosquitoes.
“We all know that flies and other
insects are attracted by light. Well,
one night I set up a net with a large
AMONG THE ROCKIES IN COLO
RADO IS $50,000. :
Somewhere along the 100 mile§s of
lailway which connects Cripple Creek
and Florence, Col., is cached a fortune
in golden eagles. Among the rocks
and bowlders lies hidden $59,000 in
gold, and it is very probable that it
will never be found, unless some lucky
bunter, by chance, discovers the cache
where is hidden the fortune.
_ In the summer of 1893 the money
was taken from the safe of an ex
press- car by six masked train rob
bers. All of the robbers are now dead
and there is nothing to mark the hid
ing place of their ill-gotteh wealth.
The last of the robbers was a man by
the name of Marks. On the day which
he set to unearth the treasure he died
at his office in Cripple Creek from
pneumonia. Marks and one other rob
ber were the only men who knew the
hiding place of the money.
They carried it in canvas bags inte
the hills along the railroad tracks near
the scene of the hold-up, and buried it
under the rocks while their four con
federates held the trainmen and ex
press messengers at bay with their
rifles.
The robbers planned to allow the
money to remain hidden for several
vears, so that there could be no
chance of their being ‘iscovered iz
passing it. After the hold-up, the six
men separated, going in different di
rections to various parts of the coun
try. Marks and the man who had as
sisted him in burying the gold re
mained in Cripple Creek together.
Each feared the other and they watch
ed each other like hawks to guard!
against any attempt to obtain thej
money. After two years had elapsed‘
Marks had become a real estate man
and a lawyer. The other man had‘
died a year after the hold-up.
The story of the hidden treasure is!
told by Mayor F. L. Baldwin, of
Youngstown, 0., who obtained it from“
a half-breed Indian named Clark, while;
he was in Cripple Creek in 1897. .\’o%
living person knew what had become
of the stolen $50,000 at the time Mayor
Baldwin obiained the story but Clark.
The robbers had selected the year
of 1897 to unearth the money, and di
vide it. They were all to meet %n
Cripple Creek on May 25, when Marks
and the other man who knew the hid
ing place were to get the gold and
there was to be a division. None of
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Our dress goods line is replete
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opening and a brilliant light at the
small end. The result was astonish
ing. The next morning the net was
filled with mosquitces, flies and bugs
of different varieties. I fed them to
the chickens. Other nets were set up
ir the salt marshes. Very soon there
was a noticeable diminution of mos
quitoes, and we could sleep undis
turbed.
“During the summer I have suc
ceeded in catching about a ton of mos
quitoes. What I propose to do is to
organize a company, take the mosqui
toes, pour cornmeal or shorts over
them and grind them up with oyster
and clam shells that are thrown out
from the summer hotels. There is no
more excellent chicken or duck feed.
“In this simple manner I expect to
obtain enough food for a large hen
rery all winter and materially cheap
en the price of Long Islund ducks and
broiled. chickens, while lidding the re
sort of the one-time pests.”
the robbers arrived at the meeting
point on the date selected. Days pass
ed into weeks and weeks into months
and the train robbers did not arrive.
Marks was the only living man who
knew the hiding place, and he knew
that none of the other men had ob
tained the money.
He felt that he was being watched
by the other four men constantly, and
he lived in constant terror for months.
He believed the other men must be
dead, and in October he decided that
he would go and get the fortune him
self. He needed some one to help
him carry the gold, and he told his
story to Clark, who was a prospector
at that time, reserving the important
details, and simply giving a general
idea of the location of the hidden
wealth.
A day was appointed. The men
were to meet at the cabin of Marks,
vho lived alone, early one morning.
When the morning came with it came
a light fall of snow. Marks feared
that they would be followed, and couldi
be tracked in the snmow. He would
not consent to take the chance. His‘
limbs quaked with terror when he
seemed so near to obtaining the for
tune which had been buried for four
vears. Clark described his terror as|
most abject. He thought that every
man who looked at him and was a
stranger was one of his robber con
federates in the hold-up.
Another day was set when Marks
and Clark were to go to the cache
and obtain the money. It was des
tined that the robber was not to reap
the reward of his four years’ vigil over
the treasure, for the night before the
day appointed, when the money was
to be unearthed, Marks was found in
his office dead.
Shortly after Marks’ death Clark
told the story to Mayor Baldwin, who
was at that time in Cripple Creek es
tablished as an attorney, and enjoy
ing the excitement of the early min
ing camp. With the death of Marks
also passed away the secret of tne
hiding place of the money, for he left
no chart, no papers of any kind by
which the fortune could be located and
the gold stolen from the express safe
thirteen years ago still lies buried‘
among the hills along the Florence
and Cripple Creek railway. ‘
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