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Washington Post, D.C.
poze 10, column 3
20 0+1895

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OM TACCART
AGGRESSIVE CHRISTIANS.
National Gospel Mission Calen's First Con-
tention to Me Held Here.
Great things are promised by the Chris-
LOST CASIN TREASURE
New Mayor and workers at the first annual conven: The Cabin Has Been Found, but
Has l'one.
ER THE COUNTRY
lentenants at Chicago
preciated the strength
h
the People Taugh:
omething About Saart
Fork Friends Pat I p
Would Win.
on of the National Gospel Mission Union.
to be hell at Foundry Church from (c-
tober 1 to 17 I'reparations for the meet-
ing* have been rapidly mate, and the at-
Tendance tomi** to be so much beyoud
awns that the convention com-
will. It In experte 1. #m dif-
1ive from enter
it to all who
large
still unpr
who can ac-
mm-lat on or
at
are
with
g
1823
I prim
771
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than a
object is to wait for
*xisting
to promote
1:
mte van zation of the
prevent convention is the
TO nationalize
others of the unnar pre-
.1
ine
**cretary. A I.
treasurer, Dr. J. E. Car-
program.me. full of th
Tar by
hari
Mr.
chol
artin and Gospel wagon
ng list of speakers has
been ar
Treasure Is Missing,
Count To
Who is in closer
with humanity, its
the its sufferings, than
OREGON'S $20,000 MYSTERY
Hidden Tears Ago by a Robber, Booty Hun-
tere Haves
verie
ried Again and Again to Find
It, but Alunys Returned Raffled-cent
Discovery of the Lost Cabin, but the Gold
Dust Buried Somewhere in the Vicinity
Still Eludes Diligent Searchers.
Prem be an Francisco Eramizer
The long Lost Calan of Mount Hood.
Oregon, has been found, but its fabulis
wealth still Ins unearth!
wealth consists of two sacks of koli dust
hidden by a stage robber many years a
in the vicinity of the "Lost Cabin
many
have elaps!
stolen that if found now it would be con-
Was
and would be
to the lucky finder. The teari. 1 Aust is
estimated to be worth at least $20,
The Lost Cabin was built in the Cas-
cades thirty-three years ago by four (re-
while prospecting
They
Pay of East Portland;
Capt. Hodge, and Col. Caune, of re
City, and Dr. McAtee of
What roll- it to mind and induc
quet to revisit the son of mis early pn-
who is alive to-dav.
"Go through a crowd
preferably city people
their tired, anxious, wa
rem.mber your life an
of those whom you h
intimatel : recall t
cases of sickness and
which you have he ro
your elf the reason of a
fering and desp ir. An
see, however strange
pear, that the cause
tenths of human miser
chronic weakness or di
this suffering is use es
could be av ided, and
majority of people whos
darkened by ill-heal h
strong, vigorous, and H
Coupled with the
this grand man is
truth that four-fift
diseases arise from
liver, or bladder c
Can you not readily
why that magnifice:
Warner's Safe Cure
ular? It is because i
these troubles or cu
taken in time. If

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taken care of
pened up Ilarrity
n
hairman of the
. and askyl him
he could get
Taggart prom-
ing day he ar-
and net Mssrs.
the oth+1 Ipemo-
WAS
him he had a
a poll the
nie so surprised
Kentucky State
ited Indianapolis
was outlined just
neighbor stood,
at in each school
The eastern men
rp politics, but
nything like it.
Ives just what
offered it with-
t, however, said
a time with a
ered. When he
onal Committee
ollowed him. In
et. the Eastern
pent an hour or
cation with the
y and Taggart
hitney said "If
nce at any time
a case of Chair-
but the word
s very close to
Taggart had to
times, too, and
orthcoming. His
factory to those
after Cleveland
asked what he
thing you can
Pr to Cleveland..
cities. The first day will be of special
City to Owyhee. He watched his oppor-
interest to our local organizations. as tunity when a large amount of treasure
they will be presented by able speakers would be shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
welcome the workers.
in brief addresses. Rev. 0. A. Brown will Express. Picketing his horse in a clump
of Calvary Baptist Church, will speak for
Rev. S. H. Greene, of bushes close to the road, he lay in
the churches of Washington, Rev. W. H. walt at the mouth of a canyon on the
Brooks, the colored churches: Dr. Wider- road between Boise and Owyhee. He "held
man and Miss Miner, Deaconess Home; up" the stage, seized the United States
Dr. Pitzer, Bible Society: W. H. H. mail and the Wells-Fargo strong box, and,
Smith. Young Men's Christian Associa- leaving the driver bound and gagged,
tion: Mrs. Platt, W. C. T. U. Dr. Shel-made off to the mountains. In the box he
lenger, Christian Endeavor; W. B. Mat- found over a
thews, Epworth League; Rev. R.
West, Baptist Young People's Society,
R.
and P. H. Bristow, Sunday-school Union.
congregations will take advantage of this
It is hoped that all the pastors and their
opportunity to study the best methods of
Christian endeavor offered at this con-
vention.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
Historic Declarations of Congress and the
State Department.
hundred pounds of gold
dust and a large sum in greenbacks.
The driver, when found, was half dead
and delirious from starvation. From his
story suspicion was fastened upon the
robber's partner, who was, of course, in-
nocent of the crime. However, he was
arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced
to eight years in the penitentiary. Mean-
time the guilty man, fearing his own ar-
rest, went into the mountains. He found
an unoccupied miner's cabin, where he de-
termined to hide himself. He rarely left
the cabin except to buy provisions in the
nearest camp.
near
go back to Idaho and surrender himself.
Several years older than when he had
left, and changed by the rough life he had
led, no one knew him when he reached
Boise. There his remorse made him mis-
erable, and when, soon after, he was tak-
en seriously sick and was about to die,
he wrote a full confession, in which he
The Cuban revolt, its final result, and
The story goes that he buried his gold
the policy of our Government towards the
dust in a hole under the stump of a tree
his cabin. For several years he
island was the subject of a conversation passed the life of a hermit, until his con-
the other day which suggested an inves-science began troubling him because he
tigation as to some of our important of- had permitted an innocent man to suffer
for his crime. Finally he determined to
Cuba. Representative Markley-House
ficial or executive utterances concerning
Report. Nineteenth Congress, 1826-said
that "the United States could not see with
indifference the transfer of Cuba from
Spain to any other European power."
While the records of our State Depart-
ment and the proceedings of the legisla-described the place where the dust was
tive branch of the Government show con-
siderable correspondence, resolutions and
executive documents in regard to Spanish-
Cuban affairs touching upon international
questions, not until Mr. Fillmore's admin-
istration-1850-'53-did the
Cuban independence and annexation as-
sume the importance of a public question
was fully outlined.
when the policy of our State Department
question
of
expressed an opinion against the incor-
In his last message President Fillmore
and disapppeared.
hidden. His partner was pardoned out
The Prisoner's Secret.
The other story of the mysterious treas-
ure has it that the existence of the "Iost
Cabin" and mine was first known by the
guards of the Washington penitentiary at
Walla Walla about ten years ago. The
prisoners had just been transferred from
the old penitentiary at Seatco, and the
murderer Serving
usual search being made on a criminal
ain't
you?
afraid to go home in the
Why, I'll go home with yo
"A kind of surprised look (
Maud S., and finally he says: 'T
ty good. Bill, durned if you ain'
cuss I'm afeered of. Guess
here.'"
"I'll make a note of it,"
Moore yesterday as he wrote
ful phonographic characters
randum for reference to one of
tenants. "Didn't know I was
hand writer, did you?" he qu
Post reporter. "Fact is, I co
along without it at this desk.
been a shorthand writer for ma
My first experience at it? We
the time I was sticking type in
of the National Intelligencer,
Mr. Gales told me to go to the
report the proceedings.. I toi
wasn't a shorthand man, bu
formed me that Mr. Burche, wh
tired from the duty of repo
House to take the office of jour
would assist me. A few days 1
ert Sutton, who then used an
tem of shorthand to report th
wanted to get a better system,
posed that we study Pitman.
learned to write quite rapidly
months, and I reported the Hous
until 1857. During that period I
verbatim for the Intelligencer
convention that nominated Win
for President. I also reported t
of Daniel Webster at the ba
Kossuth.
"While I was clerk to Secret
ton I overheard Senator Wilson,
chusetts, tell him and Gen.
that Richmond had fallen. I
news to the street, and there w
great crowd in front of the pla
for Stanton. President Johnson
entered the building and was
make a speech. Stanton also *1

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he visited Indianapolis opportunity to siliny the best adducent of the
There was outlined just
d his neighbor stood,
all that in each school
te. The eastern men
sharp politics, but
een anything like it.
hemselves just what
1 and offered it with-
nggart, however, said
for a time with a
it offered.
When he
National Committee
ney followed him. In
he street, the Eastern
He spent an hour or
organization with the
Whitney and Taggart
and Whitney said: "If
ssistance at any time
asn't a case of Chair-
Jules," but the word
rs was very close to
imal. Taggart had to
veral times, too, and
ways forthcoming. His
satisfactory to those
ed. for after Cleveland
t was asked what he
"Nothing you can
answer to Cleveland,
ty at a meeting in this
men have met several
hough Taggart is not
now as he was just
al election. Three days
t from here to Indian-
nething like this:
12 can place for me
e elected, and give
sent a well-known In-
an and the informa-
purse was made up
awford Fairbanks of
pled Taggart's ma-
who know Tom Tag-
eithe
vention.
Christian endeavor offered at this con arrested, Iried, convicted, and sentenced
to eight years in the penitentiary. Mean-
time the salty man, fearing his own er-
rest, went into the mountains. He found
an sioce jpled miner's cabin, where he de-
termined to hide himself. He rarely left
the cabin except to buy provisions in the
nearest Camp.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
Historic Declarations of Congress and the
State Department.
Markley-House
The Cuban revolt, its final result, and
the policy of our Government towards the
island was the subject of a conversation
the other day which suggested an inves-
tigation as to some of our important of-
ficial or executive utterances concerning
Cuba. Representative
Report, Nineteenth Congress, 18-said
that "the United States could, not see with
Indifference the transfer of Cuba from
Spain to any other European power."
While the records of our State Depart-
ment and the proceedings of the legisla-
tive branch of the Government show con-
siderable correspondence, resolutions and
executive documents in regard to Spanish-
Cuban affairs touching upon international
questions, not until Mr. Fillmore's admin-
istration-1850-53-did the question of
Cuban independence and annexation as-
sume the importance of a public question
was fully outlined.
when the policy of our State Department
In his last message President Fillmore
expressed an opinion against the incor-
poration of the island with this Union.
In 1859 Senator John Slidell made a re-
port, No. 351, Thirty-fifth Congress, asking
for an appropriation to facilitate the ac-
quisition of Cuba by negotiation, giving
views of statesmen upon the proposition,
&C.
In the Forty-first Congress executive
documents were introduced
the resolutions of the legislatures of three
embodying
States-South Carolina, Iowa, and Mary-
land-urging our national legislature to
recognize Cuba--South Carolina, Senate
miscellaneous document No. 5; Iowa,
House miscellaneous document No. 103,
"favoring the recognition of belligerent
he
The story goes that he burled his gold
dust in a hole under the stump of a free
near his cabin. For several years
passed the life of a hermit, until his con-
cience began troubling him because he
had permitted an innocent man to suffer
for his crime. Finally he determined to
Ho back to Idaho and surrender himself.
Several years older than when he had
left, and changed by the rough life he had
led, no one knew him when he reached
Boise. There his remorse made him mis-
erable, and when, soon after, he was tak-
en seriously sick and was about to die.
he wrote full confession, in which he
described the place where the dust was
and disapppeared.
hidden. His partner was pardoned
The Prisoner's Secret.
out
The other story of the mysterious treas-
ure has it that the existence of the "Lost
Cabin and mine was first known by the
guards of the Washington penitentiary at
Walla Walla about ten years ago. The
prisoners had just been transferred tom
the old penitentiary at Seatco, and the
usual search being made on a criminal
murderer, serving a fe sentence, vas
found a piece of silver ore. When asked
where he obtained it he refused to ans-
wer further than to say he had a brother,
who, if he desired, could give the informa-
tion asked for. This brother, he said,
lived at the Cascades. A few years ago
the murderer died and his name is now
forgotten. Up to the last moment he re-
fused to give any information concerning
the mine. He constantly repeated:
shall possess it."
"My brother shall have it; no outsider
For several years it was thought that
did not deter
the secret had died with him. Yet this
adventurous prospectors
from hunting for the "Lost Cabin, but
the search in every case was fruitless.
My first experience at its
the time I was sticking ty
of the National Intelligen
Mr. Gales told me to go to
report the proceedings..
wasn't a shorthand man
formed me that Mr. Burch
tired from the duty of
House to take the office of
would assist me. A few d
ert Sutton, who then use
tem of shorthand to repo
wanted to get a better sys
posed that we study Pi
learned to write quite r
months, and I reported the
until 1857. During that per
verbatim for the Intelligen
convention that nominated
for President. I also repor
of Daniel Webster at th
Kossuth.
"While I was clerk to S
ton I overheard Senator Wil
chusetts, tell him and G
that Richmond had fallen.
news to the street, and thei
great crowd in front of the
for Stanton. President Joh
entered the building and
make a speech. Stanton al
I reported both speeches.
they appeared in the Chro
told Gen. Hitchcock that d
d-boy of ours did it.' I h
sight while taking notes."
"I indorse The Post's p
gard to the trip of the old
said Commissioner Ross ye
influence of its passage th
cities that received it on i
lanta could not fail to be p
otic. The gaping crack in i
made when it so gladly rang
of the Declaration of Inde
not but teach a lesson to al

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his victory, no matter
may be, for the sun
etter fellow. He will
ither looking to burn
e nor permitting open
ES RECEPTION.
. Celebrate Their Sec-
y in the Business.
rights of the revolution by the United
States," and House miscellaneous docu-
ment No. 125, the Maryland Senate urg-
rights of the Cubans.
ing Congress to recognize the belligerent
I'resident Grant's policy toward Cuba or
Spain was prompt and firm. He gave no
definite expression in his messages as to
annexation of the island. His policy, it
seems. was strict neutrality, as it has
been with his predecessors since the
Forty-first Congress The Fifty-fourth
Congress, it is thought, will have to han-
dle the Cuban question. What policy our
State Department will pursue remains to
be seen.
re was 119 Spect
of the "Lost Cabin" ever being discovered,
but a few months later an old wanderer
named Ross, no relative, by the way, of
Cody's partner, gave a chart of the cabin
and the mine and surrounding country
to a resident of Latourelle, who ha fur-
nished him with a night's lodging and a
meal. It was said that the murderer in
his last moments had mentioned This
chart. The owner of the chart lid not
care to go on a "wild-goose chase, as he
termed it, and gave it to a friend. It
passed from one to another until it reach-
ed James Ross in 1887. He started for the
mine several times, but his search ended
nothing.
Discovery of the Cabin.
Co. celebrated their
as a firm of clothing
with
concert and
four hours' duration.
ors of their building
to the public, and a
surged
humanity
during the opening
tamining nake and
They were agreably
melodious strains of
estra. The best part
tertainment was the
y person who came
to buy something,
de that nothing was
evening at any rice.
to make it a per-
r. and he knew he Further Evidence Connecting Wim with food and animals, and after a long and
the Pitzel Murder.
The Engineering Magazine for October
contains an article written by a native In 1889 he went hunting with friends
Cuban, who makes this significant as-
sertion: "Whether Cuban Independence
and in the afternoon the party became
ceparated.
would lead to the annexation of the
Ross sighted an elk and
island to the United States is rather a
started in pursuit, but the light-limbed
difficult problem, but it is certain that animal led him on a ten-mile chase and
once severed from Spanish thraldom the then disappeared down a ravine. He fol-
island would never again be controlled lowed, dismounted, and pushed through
by any European power. It is likely that the underbrush. In a thicket he saw the
the Cubans would at first endeavor to
establish a republic, as they feel them-cabin and the tools of the murderer.
He
selves entirely capable of self-govern- carved his name on a log, and then re-
joined his friends.
mes the crowd it he
The floors and large
omely decorated with
Small, and electric
about 121 great
for carried those who,
full me of sporting
or, while those who
sort of an overcoa?
taken over the sec
the firm is onist two
aly a healthy baby.
exhibition on the
the most complete
It comprises ev
game of football to
The
vde stockings.
Bays in the midd
he source of much
1altors, many
en fly bout with
belge the test
ment.
HOLMES' NEY FITS THE DOOR.
up
Indianapolis, Oct. 11-Interest in the
H. H. Holmes case was revived here to-
day by the reappearance of Detective,
Geçer. of Philadelphia. He turned
unexpectedly in Irvington this forenoon.
going to the house where Howard Pitzel
was murdered and his body burned, Gey-
er fitted a key from his pocket in the
front door night latch. It worked per-
Tectly. The key had been found on the
person of Holmes after his arrest
iladelphia. Dr. Thompson, who lived
ts the house before Holmes occupied 11.
recognized the key as the one he had
himself carried for two years.
in
Geyer arranged to take Dr. Thompson.
Dr. Byram, and other witnesses from
The next year with Cody he tried to
find the cabin again, but falled because
provisione gave out. They made a second
trip, this time being well equipped with'
difficult journey they came upon The
cabin.
On the ground were picks and shovels.
The handles broke when they tried to lif:
the tools and the iron was covered with
rust. Lying about were cooking utensils
in the same state, and pieces of silver
ore. There was the tunnel which had been
bored into the side of the mountain and
from which ore had been extracted.
Cody thinks the mine has been deserted
at least twenty-five years. He believes
the murderer feared discovery and left
it about 1868 and took up a claim further
away from the village. Cody bases his
belief upon the fact that the bark of a
tree had been cut away and initials carv
upon the wood, but the bark had grown
over and almost entirely obliterated the
letters.
the school children It was es
cable; they had been taugh
their histories and were one
ious to see it. In the minds
had not learned what it wa
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Lithia
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Is the name of that
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Health,
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And all that goes t
life worth living.
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Nov 6, 1974 Bridgeport Post Bridgeport,
BOY FINDS BOTTLE:
Conn
tle which he had picked up while | health, was manufactured for
he and his family were exploring the store of Byrne and Castree
1864 and 1866,
IT'S QUITE AN ITEM 40-mile long Sparta Ditch, dug between
BAKER, Ore. (AP)
An old by Chinese laborers and com- youth's father said.
bottle Danny Wescott found in pleted in 1873. One bottle collec-
the Eagle Cap Wilderness area tor has said he will top any
near here turned out to be a other bid for
valuable collector's item.
the
whatever the amount.
bottle,
Wescott, 14, has received of- The bottle, labeled, "salutaris
fers as high as $250 for the bot- Bitters," or bitters promoting
the