Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1914 — FIND BOLD IN HIDDEN TOWN [ARTICLE]

FIND BOLD IN HIDDEN TOWN

Wealth, Burled by Old Residents and Long Sought, Believed to Haws Been Loeated. Blythe, CaL—Three strangers came jlnto Blythe In an natonaoWte. They semaiaed here a day and the next meaning they ooossed the rfwer at Bhres* berg tarry. Since that time reports have reached hen that they went directly to the old town of La Fas, ten pdhsß northwest at Blythe on Ihe opposite of the Colorado River, and altar js search there In the ruins ol an old adobe budding, eMocneded In unasws wring and oamylng essay gett to the (amount of $60*060. That the men wkk4 to La Fas; aad did consltorafcle exqavettng inside the old ruins and that' they Maimed to ihare fohnd fdOJJOO has been verified. The fact that (he offlHwrtMfng In which they dug was the pMnoipal store acq ‘saloon of the town On the early aad palmy days of La Ben gives areigaoa So the report of the‘wealth the three (men found. "j The saloon was owned and conducted by one Franrtseot’XfcCbm&a, a BtoM (tuguese.

Rabun, In additlomdo conducting a (general store and ealettu, was the principal buyer of gold dust in La Pax, gold dust being the common medium lot exchange in the canto In,those days. One day widlfe at thelSoodman mine, -which he owned, Rabaum received serfious Injuries, tram wMchtihe never recovered apd In a few daye^dled. Rabana had no family, hlevwlfe bay* dng died SPeutoußly, nbr «ny' very Inbmate fgleads. It wnjs generally [known that he had maefc geld dull tutored about the place, as {that was the [only way he had to there bepng no banlp aad transportation waswov. People had seen'this gold In teabana'e possession, wttfoh befcept In naoks, dtakss, and cans. However when Rahqpa died the only thing found on Kb person or elbout the BKintßss wds a deposit check in a foreign bank 1 tor a amap ■mount of money. No <haih or goM (hut of any considerable amount oonld be found. The tact that no geld pas tound oq jjthe Rabana premises HU to nnmerlous efforts on' the part’4 of many to Isaahoh for the lost treasure. : Take en things of Cblslnatare, the Bine contagious and men years, lookfogwad digging ts gold, wMlcfli so fir as never found. Government Had declared be located on an Indian and the inhabitants were ■owe off, many a man redug in the old town, looktreasure, and In this way tout the old Rabana house paed over many times, one nom mans sated by the last pararJSS a degth ot about tyelve