Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1905 — Struck It Rich. [ARTICLE]

Struck It Rich.

Attorney General Charles W. Miller, State Auditor Sherriok, Secretary of State Storms and State Treasurer Hill are one-third of a millon dollars richer than they were a week ago by the receipt of: $300,000 in cash from John R. Walsh, the millionaire ratlroad man and owner of several Indiana ooal mines. These four state offioers a year ago bought a few aores of coal land in Sullivan county, Ind., with the intention, of prospecting for coal. They paid only a few thousand dollars for the land—less han SIO,OO0 —but they found the ooal, and this week received thirty ;imes that amount from Mr. Walsh, And it was paid in oold, lard cash, deposited in looal banks. The deal makes Auditor Sherriok independently rich because he clears totally out of the transaosßo,ooo. The other men divide he remander of the sum about equally. Never before were a group of Indiana Btate officers so quiokly enriched in their private business ventures as in this case,