Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — FINDS OLD ROBBERS’ ROOST [ARTICLE]

FINDS OLD ROBBERS’ ROOST

Hope Now Is to Get Treasure If the Successful Band Ever Concealed Any. Medford, Ore. —A romance of hidden treasure was recalled last week when J. M. Howard stumbled on a rotting cabin on the banks of a mountain stream in Jackson county. The cabin is said to have been the home of a gang of men who buried a vast treasure, looted from the Adams Express Company bank in San Francisco when it failed in the early ’so’s. Mr. Howard, a pioneer prospector, was told of the cabin six years ago by a man giving the name of Charles H. Owens of Michigan, who searched the hills for several years and then went to Portland. For six years Howard has looked for the cabin. Although he has found the cabin Howard has not uncovered the treasure, nor does he expect to until he locates Owens, who alone hold the key to the mystery. Owens described the old hut In detail just as Howard found it, and stated that once the cabin was found he could point out the hiding place of the money. In 1854 the Adams Express Company’s bank In San Francisco failed, having been looted by Its officers, so the story runs. The robbers attempted to escape to sea. but were In turn robbed by the sailors of the small vessel they boarded. These sailors came ashore, built the cabin and burled the money. Two of them showed up In Jacksonville and were well known. It is from one of these sailors that Owens received his information. Failing to locate Owens, Howard will

an independent search for the loot which he believes will make him independent for life.