Plunder

The finding ol a revolver mark:.: "Blood for Blood" has revived an okl story of buried treasure at Phoenix, Ariz., and a number of men are digging in the vicinity of the place whert} the weapon was found. In June, 1S76, five men held up a stage coach on the Black Canyon road, uear Arastia HUI. One passenger was killed and the booty consisted of a big roll of new ?100 greenbacks and a bar of gold worth $32,000. A year or so later it was j ported in Phoenix, and indeed j out the extreme Southwest, that the product of the stage robbery had been buried at Phoenix. Two of the robbers made partial confessions when mortul1.., wounded, but their explanations wero cut off by death. It seems that tho robbers had feared to make use of the greenbacks because those notes were I rare in that part of the country and j would arouse suspiclon. They there! fore buried the bilis and cut the golcl bar in two with an axe and buried half together with the pistol of the murdcrl ed passenger, which was a peculiar one, bearing the wor2s "Blood for Blood.'' The whole was inclosed in an iron coffee pot. Almost every year ginee tl: story of the treasure became known one j or more searchers have appeared at Phoenix, each claiming to have a tip received at some "bad man's" deathbed or in some equally sensational way. Some years ago a priest from Magdalena Sonora, who had boen gieu thn loeatiou by a man wiio had died of a j wound received in a fight, spent a long j time in searching for it without success. It is probable that the treasure, if ever buried at all, has been removed by some searcher who thought it wel! to conceal bis success.