California's Buried Treasures

Sbori.es of buriedt reasure have always exoro.iised a eliarm over the Imaginación of man. Swh talos have been ri e In Cali'ornla eince the gringo ftrst carne round the Horn and acroes the plains. Fortunes are supposed to await the Monte Cristo who can establish lus claim or lócate his treasnre - from the money of decea.sed miners that has prosaically laia acc'umulating in the Hibernia Bank, or the buriied gold of Murietta and Tiburio Vasquez. Itecently a couple oS expeditions have started to uneaith two deposite of treasure as rich and myiteriotiLS as the lost mines of the Aztecs. One, a party of Easterners, has gone to San Miguel Island, off Santa Barbara, to find the chests of Hpanish doubloons which, according to tradition, were lost there years ago in tihe wreek of a Spanten bark. The survivors secured their gold, and buried i tin a cave, close to the historie spot where Cabrillo landed, and afterward, going to the mainland, were slain by the Indiana. The second expedi'tion, whlcti is backed by a hotel keeper in Stockton, makes Cocos Island, off the coast of Central America, lts o-bjective point. Cosco Islanü was once the resort of pirates, and on it, ttie tale goes, some of the buccaneers t)uried thelr rlches. The Stockton hotel keeper and his assoclates have gone to work in a bueinets like way. They have secured a concession from the Nlcaraguan government to farm the island for a number of years, and have imported a colony of Germana, who, if the treasure does not turn up, will get what they can out of the land by growlng coffee. So far their Bearch 'aas been unsuccessful, the directions on the chart which located ihe pirates' hoard haviug led to nothing. But the hotel keeper and his Germana are not easlly daunted, and say they will find the treasure if they have to dig over the whole island.- Harper'.s Weekly. - The P. 0. at Ypsilanti has been rearranged and fitted up to suit the tas tes of the new P. M. Charles Guerin, a former resident of Chelsea, died at the home of hi son in Detroit, on the 21st inst., aged 83 years.