Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1905 — Fifty-five Years Since Gold Dusters Exodnsted. [ARTICLE]

Fifty-five Years Since Gold Dusters Exodnsted.

Last Saturday’s Delphi Herald says: 14 “Today is the 55th anniversary [ of the departure of a party of Cal- ' ifornia gold hunters from Delphi and of the number only oner here is yet alive John D. Wilson. The story of their departure and their experiences have been often related by the Delphi newspapers and is always interesting. About 40 left this city, went to Lafayette and then down the Wabash by boat. Of the 40. one Jacob Troxell is reported to be very dangerously ill at his Rensselaer home, another J. R, Horsley once owned and edited the Delphi Times, but now resides in California, while Mr. Wilson is the only one of the party left here, Several dozen went from Lafayette with the crowd but none of them got immensely rich in the West.” We are glad to be able to correct that sentence in the above par tgraph which resets to Mr. Trcx-h’s sickness. He has been quite poorly at DeMotte, where himself and wife own a hotel building, and are staying temporarily, but hiscondition is not’Considered at all dangerous and is constantly improving.