A Trunkful of Roubles Waiting Delivery in the U. S. Court for China A trunkful of money—a trunk full of money, full from bottom to top, every nook and cranny jammed with money, a trunk so heavy that it staggers two strong men to lift it, but mo two men have been found to carry it away. The money is not in bullion, nor in bank drafts, but iv is paper money, proper wallpaper according to the financial experts of the world. There are in 42,995,000 paper roubles by actual count. The box shows a label of having been in New York, Peking and on the Canadian Pacific Co.'s Empress boats, and where else no one knows.
On Wednesday morning a Russian in his early twenties came to the American Court and addressed Mr. Chapman, the U. S. Clerk, saying, "Mr. Evans said I am to give you this."
"TY don't want this. "What do you think this is, a baggage storage house? I have mo place for it. Yes; do what you wish with it,
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