Gypsy Heart
Gold Member
Clearmont Indian Treasure (from Jan 1898 newspaper article) - HUNTING BURIED GOLD - Northwest Missouri is much interested in a search for gold which has been in progress for three months near Clearmont. Dave, John, and Bill Bains, brothers, who live near the Iowa-Missouri line, declare that on a small strip of land 2-1/2 miles north of Clearmont is a buried treasure in gold. Alexander Gray, a harness maker, owns the tract. The Bains boys assert that the secret was disclosed to them by some Indians of the Sac and Fox tribe who themselves made a search for the gold several years ago. In 1837, Congress extended Missouri's boundary lines so as to include six counties now in northwest Missouri. The Sac and Fox and Iowa Indians owned the land, and after much difficulty it was purchased from them. Part of the price was $7,500 in gold, delivered to Chief Cahaqua (Red Fox) at Liberty, Mo. He and his party were set upon and murdered by a band of Omahas. Chief Red Fox died without revealing the hiding place of the gold and other tribal treasures in his custody. The Sac and Fox Indians were taken to Kansas, and a tradition among them is that the treasure was deposited in a hollow log and sunk to the bottom of a small lake near where Clearmont now is. But the Nodaway River has since filled the lake with sand, and its position is questionable. A stock company of Clearmont business men has been organized to aid the Bains brothers.
