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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1921)
br I. ci ra; pr th. to ha Pi th.. Vfsl it i ibl ng old n 1 dva ' 2. n rap Th ir lis m se he In t M r oc tl la ea ei In Page Eight The Capital Journal, Salem, Of ege Monday, October 3, Recovery Of Gold Hinges On Salemites (Continued from Page One.) 200 teet above the water level. They caught the coyote all right and in bin struggle to free blin self from the trap the animal dug a hole in the botiom of tne cave This uncovered the flap ot an Ancient saddle. A IIUIb work with a pick soon hrnneht to light the following rtldes. all somewhat decayed and showing the results of age: Two saddles, two bells such as are used for horses when staked oui, ; a rosewood box containing papers and documents, a cnuo. s orutu, comb and hair ribbon, a long temmed pipe, a pair of old-fashioned spectacles with square lens, besides other personal effects. An examination of the plunder convinced Williams that these were the articles that had been burled by the gold hunting party of which Mrs. Eliza Turtle of Sa lem, Oregon, was a member, anar ly half a century ago. Further In vestigation convinced him that such was indeed the case, so he at once instituted a search for Mrs. Turtle, which has not as yet been successful. According to Williams' story, Mrs. Eliza Turtle has made no less than six trips along the Columbia river for the purpose of discover ing the hiding place of the i?oli! ift thpn buck In lSb. Dy ui father and his four companions On these trips she explained to her guides that the party burled two Jots of their belongings in or (er to prevent them from falling Into the hands of the Indians. The location of the saddles, etc., was mar ted by a monument of rocks, but the gold was only a short dis tance away, In a location known to Mrs. Turtle. A rough map of the location was all that Mrs Turtle had to guide her In her search, but ns many years had passed since she witnessed the burial of the treas ure, she could not remember the general location of the cache. From Mis. Sarah Truax, for merly a resident of the Qulncy vi cinity, now living In Ellensbtirg, Williams has learned the story of the burial of the gold along the river, supplemented also by what be learued from those who accom panied Mrs. Turtle on her bIx trips n search of the treasure. It appears that there were five adults In the party, including Mrs. Turtle's parents, in addition there was a half breed guide. They had washed out about .... worth of gold at the scene of a new dis covery somewhere In British Co lumbia and were on their way to their former home in Oregon. As they reached the vicinity of Trinidad they found the Indlam on the war path, being especially Hostile towards the Chinamen who were then washing gold along the sands of tbe Columbia. The half breed guide employed by the party sensed danger and advised them to gel rid of their horses and bury their gold, trusting to wake their way home down the river on foot. As for him, he notified l hem that he would quit them right there and would not guide them any further. Tbe party took the guide's ad vice and burled their belongings In two places uol far apart. Their addles and other similar effects were put In one place and marked by a pile of stones, erected a cou ple ot hundred feet away. The gold was hurled elsewhere, and a rough map was made for guidance In relocating the treasurer when the party roturncd, as they inteud ed to do the fullowing spring. Tbe party escaped from the scene ot tbe Indian troubles safe iy, though once held up and Marched by the warring red men But when they arrived at The Dalles where there was an army post, the officers refused to ar- oompuny (hem Back to find the1 gold. The Indian disturbances lasted for several years, and In the mean time the leading members of the party died. The rest busied themselves .il other adventures, until finally there was no one left of th eutlie party except the Utile girl, -hnse father had been leader ot the ex pedition, now grown to woman-, hood and married. All she had to guide her In the search for the burled gold was the rough mup drawn by her father many years before. II was about 1J years ago that Qulncy people first remember the xpendltton headed by Mis km beth Turtle, which ranged up and down the Columbia river fromj Trinidad down to Beverly seeking a mythical pot of gold. For six1 summers, she cam back each year1 and dug about among 'he sand, the rocks, the caves and the pot holes of tbe river bank, all to no purpose. At first the people In the vicin ity showed a keen Interest In the. quest for the lust gold aud many of them Instituted searching par-i ties of their own but as no trace ; was ever found of tbe objet t of the quest. It became tradition In and: around Qulncy that the entire! story was a anytb any one whoi wasted any time looking for this gold which never existed, was rr- gmrded as being slightly "off. "Wehley and I had heard much .' boot Mrs. Turtle and her explors lions la search of the burled gold.", aid Williams In the Dally A'orld office Wednesday, "but we never look any stock in the proposition an til we est trap for a royole l a cave that has been hollowed out of the rock in a pot hole about a mile from the river near Symrna, and thus uncovered the cache of hidden articles. That reminded us of Mrs. Turtle, who has not beeu in the vicinity for six years. "We talked with cowboys who had acted as guides for her, also with Mrs. Sarah Truax, who for merly lived near by but has moved to Elleneburg, also other neigh bors who remembered parts of her story. This convinced me that there must be something to tbe tradition, and so I have spent some time digging around in the vicin ity to see if I could discover the buried gold also. "I tried to find the names of the people who came here every summer for six or eight years look ing for the buried gold, thinking some of them might be able to find the gold if tl ey had the location of the saddles to start with, .'iut the hotel where they formerly stopped had been burned up and with It the register containing their names. I finally found some one who knew Mrs. Turtles' name and address, ano went to Salem, where shew as supposed to have lived. There I found that she had moved and no one knew what had become of her. But I did find an old man named Jacobson, at the county poor farm who had once loaned her S 1 000 to finance an ex pedition in search of the treasure. "I also found that the loss of the gold had been reported to the Uni ted States mint at San Francisco and that the branch mint at Seat- time, but failed to find anything Mrs. Turtle would spend from three to six weeks each year in looking for the gold, but without ever finding anything to encour age her to believe she was on the right track. "I feel sure, however, that If we can find Mrs. Turtle, and t;.ke her to the cave where we found the saddles, she will remember where the gold is buried. She used to say to her guides that if she could find the nlace where her father hid the saddles she could walk right to the hiding place ot the gold." . sanitarium at an was removed to a Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. Woods were mar ried in Salem September 18 ui were on their way to Walla Waljk to attend college during the com ing winter when tne acciueui u. curred. Salem Bride of Few Days Hurt In Auto Crash Mrs. E. L. Woods, of this city, was severely cut and bruised and narrowly escaped death in an au tomobile accident about four miles from Hcrmlston on the evening of Flexible Fare Replaces Nickel On Trolley Lines Atlantic City, N. X, Oct. 4. P. H. Gadsden, of Philadelphia, president of the American Elec tric Railway Association, declared today at the opening of the or ganization's annual convention that most lines had shaken off "the five-cent fare fetish." Replacing it, he said, was the flexible fare, which goes up or down with operating costs. He asserted that establishment with in the last few years by courts orwi rcriiistnrv hndies of the prin- September 22, according to word: . , . . tracti0n companies received by The Capital Journal couia not be forced to operate at today from Mrs. B. M. Woods,! a loss had provided a secure mother of the injured woman's ! foundation for the future finan husband, who left Salem as soon as cing of the Industry. she was informed of the accident, i Despite outstanding suspensions The accident occurred just after of lines, Mr. Gadsden dark when Mr. Woods drew his car up on the side of the road to repair a tire. Two other cars, mov ing In opposite directions met where the Woods' car was parked. tie has such a record. This was done In order to trace the gold in One of them, a Ford truck, report en-:,, wiino nno furirni it '.1,1,1 I i i, i L It to the mint. No one has ever done so, and therefor I am confident that the gold still reposes in th deer skin sacks where it was hid den 45 years ago. "The cowboy who guided Mrs. Turtle on her last trip says that she went to a point among the rocks Just above the cave where we found the saddles and said that this semed to her to be the spot where her father had stood when looking about for a safe hiding ed to have had but one light burn ing, crashed into the standing car, from the rear. Mrs. Woods was holding onto a trunk on the back of the car and continued, the industry's general condition was encouraging. "An analysis of the operations of a group of 75 city and inter urban roads," he said, "shows that in the six months ending June 30, the operating revenue was $146,100,956 as compared with $141,701,543 for the same period in 1920. In other words, durine the I was caught between the two ma-jlast six months, when business chines and dragged several feet, j generally In this country has been Mrs. Woods was severely hurt , almost prostrate, the electric rail about the back and hips and had i ways show an actual increase in many bruises and cuts over herj revenue of over three percent as body. Her clothes were torns to I, compared with the same six rags. months of 1920. Only four or Upon the. arrival of Mrs. B. M , j five electric railways have ceased Woods at Echo, where the injured ' to operate, while 5,000,000 men place for the gold, They dug, woman was taken Immediately aft-j and women are reported to be out around In the vicinity for a long er the accident, the younger worn- of work. What Is the Duo-Art Piano? Duo-Art means your art and the art of others. 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