Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1916 — Boy’s Chase Leads Way to Gold [ARTICLE]

Boy’s Chase Leads Way to Gold

Martinet, Cal.—A tiny terrified lizard, anxious to escape pursuit, was the direct cause of the discovery of a cache of gold coin and nuggets, ap parently buried In the, foothills xpany years ago by some early miner, who died without disclosing his hoard. The treasure Is estimated at about SIOOO, and was found by Seorge MacKensie, 9 year old son of Snperfor Judge A B. MacKenzie, who was pursuing a li»ard, which ran into a hole where the money and nuggets were hidden. More than S6OO whs In S2O gold pieces of the date of 1862. According to Judge MacKenrie, who accompanied his son to the hiding place, the wealth was originally burled' in a tin can, which had rusted a war* The- coins were without the customary "In God We Trust” motto, and are believed to be worth consider ably more than their mint valu% id to cptojMgegto 1 * ,1