The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATUR]jAY, APRIL 9, 1898. GUARD THE SECRET OF « (0COS ISLE South Sea Fortune- Hunters Besieged for Information. Obliged to Seek Seclusion to Avoid an Inquisi- tive Mob. ‘Will Fit Out a Larger Expedi- tion to Recover the Buried Treasure. COVERED BY A LANDSLIDE. Searched Far From the Hiding Place to Deceive a Distrusted Crew. ‘Willis Aumock and his party of Cocos Island treasure hunters were obliged to keep in seclusion in their rooms at the Golden West Hotel yesterday to escape the borde of inquirers that all day be- sieged them. mation concerning the hiding place of the long lost wealth of the Incas that for more than half a century | est place. | sixty miles away. on the Vine on January 3. As soon as the anchor was down eight of us landed and we were met on the beach by Captain Gessler, who, on finding out our mission, informed us he represent- | ed the Government of Costa Rica and that he was the Governor of the isl- | and. He sald if we wanted to search | for the treasure we must treat with him first. He sald his Government re- quired from all seekers for the treasure | an agreement that should it be found one-third of the recovered wealth should go to the Government. One- eighth of the remainder was to be given to him, and the finder could have the balance. The next day Gessler came on board the Vine and a contract to that effect was drawn up and exe- | cuted. After the contract was signed Professor H. St~wart the civil engi- neer of the party, and myself made a secret survey of the island according to our chart and we concluded we were | on the right track. “We found the land marks described in the chart we had and with the com- pass had little difficulty in walking di- rect to the place where the treasure lies buried. ~We, however, were not satisfied to unearth it owing to the cir- cumstances under which we were placed, and as a blind we changed the figures of our chart to some extent | and in the company of Captain Gessler and some of the members of the crew we ran lines away from the hiding place of the treasure and made belleve we were hunting for it when we dug two small holes in the sand.” : Cocos Island is situated in 5 degrees 82 minutes and 57 seconds north lati- tude, and 87 degrees, 2 minutes and 10 seconds west longitude. The discovery of the island is involved in obscurity. It was visited by such early navigators as Lionel Wafer and Dampier. Its exact position was first made known in 1791 by some Spanish exploring ship. It was surveyed two years later by Captain Coluett. Two years later Van- couver visited the island and also made surveys. The island is about twelve miles in circumference and about four and a half mjles across at its broad- Several detached rocks and islets surround it. The island is a high one and it can be seen by navigators From the eastward the southern part of the island seems They all wanted infor- | to rise abruptly from the sea in steep, rugged cliffs. The northern side is indented with small bays that afford fair anchorage for vessels. Chatham has eluded bay and Wafer bay are the names of the probes of the army of fortune seek- | the two most important of the inlets, ers that since the historical voyage of the bark Mary Dea have delved in the | hunters sands of the little isle of the South Pa- cifie. yme of the men who called Xxact spot where the fortune lies buried, and they became quite in- dignant when the information was re- fused them. ‘I am satisfied we have found the exact spot where thetreasure lies buried on Cocos Island,” continued the leader of the fortune-hunting party. “I feel certain that before twelve months more have passed we will have the hidden wealth in our possession, or as much of it as the Government of Costa Rica will allow us to carry away. I have no dqubt that we are on the right scent and the treasure cannot get away from us unless some one by sheer good luck should visit the earth it before we can get back to the ‘,']" e. Of that, however, I have no fear. of the | island and un- | It was in Wafer bay that the fortune 1y Captain Keaton anchored the Mary Dea when he landed there with the treasure stolen from the Pe- ruvian Government. . It is also said to be on the shores of this bay that the wealth is hidden. —_— e RECORDS MUST BE PRINTED. Supervisors Nor County Clerk Have Discretion in Appeal Cases. The Supreme Court decided that County Clerk Curry will have to print and transmit to that tribunal coples in appeal cases, whether the Supervisors make sufficient appropriations for such purposes or not. The question grew out of the case of John Black, who was con- victed of a felony and appealed from the judgment of Judge Wallace, peal was allowed and bill of exceptions settled. Under the law the County Clerk is compelled to have printed a record of the proceedings, and this Mr. Curry re- fused to do, stating that the Supervisors “hart of the hiding place of the treas- e in existence, and it is zealously arded. The chart is yellow with | age and I have proven that it is cor- T I was not on the island an hour when I stood on the spot where the | wealth lies hidden. Not far under my feet at that moment was a fortune for a hundred men. It will, though, take | work to get it. The topography nd has changed a great deal ‘aptain Keaton of the treasure v Dea and his mate, Thomp- c pped out of the harbor of Callao with the d and hid it under the sands of the 11 hart T now have and which led re spot where the gold and s lie buried was made by Captain m and he took the precaution to Y it when he was hiding the wealth » that he could find his way back to the spot whenever he should have an opportunity to return to the island. Only once since then did that oppor- y arise. Captaia Keaton and a ition at Boston and set sail for the island. They reached the place without difficulty, but the crew, which was a mixed one, got wind of the purpose -of the voyage and Keaton and Bogue be- came alarmed at their conduct nf the hidden wealth aboard their ves- sel than they could conveniently carry concealed abgut them. They unearthed the treasure ahd took only about $20,000 | each and salled away with it after care- fully covering what they were com- pelled to leave behind. XKeaton’s friend was drowned on the return voyage and the gold he had recovered went to the bottom of the sea with him. Keaton on his return to Boston where his fam- ily lived made a great display of his suddenly acquired wealth, His daugh- ter was covered jn a blaze of jewels and the gems were set in a manner long since forgotten in the jeweler's art. The danghter married a man named Young not long before the father died and Keaton confided the secret of the hidden treasure to his son-in-law, at the same time giving him the chart of the biding place on the South Pacific isle “Young wandered about the country and a few months ago I met him in Mexico. I befriended him in more ways than one and he confided to me the secret of the Cocos Island treasure, Ar- rangements were made with him to fit out an expedition to search for the hid- den wealth and a nr—~ber of Pittsburg italists became interested in it. The result of it was that the Vine was char- tered to carry the party of treasure hunters and I was sent as the leader of the expedition. The chart Young re- ceived from his father-in-law was cor- rect. Tt led us direct to the spot, but the circumstances were such that we could not disturb it. “In the first place we were afraid to take it from the island without a prop- er agreement with the Government that now controls the little piece of land in the middle of the Pacific. Be- sides the crew of our vessel wag such that we -could not trust it. Captain Burns did not treat us as he agreed to when we chartered his vessel. Then it would have required considerable work to get the treasure out of the zround. The heavy rains that fall on the islands almest continuously have changed the topography of the country and tons and tons of earth have been carried by the floods and deposited over the spot where the wealth lies hid- den. Tt would take many days for our party to uncover it. When we go back we will have a big force of workmen with ue, and we will make the trip in & steamer that will be under our con- tro] entirely. “Our party arrived at Cocos Island d, Captain Bogue, fitted out an ex- and | thought it best not to take any more | wealth of the Peruvians on | -1 Cocos The ap- | THE LAWYER - EXPLAINED Attorney Gillis Told Why He Gave Bad Advice | to the Cooks. |But He Did Not Mean Any | Disrespect to Judge | Morrow. | Contempt Proceedings in the Lumber Cases at an End Except for the Judgment. | Hervey Lindley went on the stand | yesterday in the United States Circuit | Court and explained the bill of sale | transaction between him and John R. | Cook of the Klamath River Lumber |and Improvement Company. | “It was a question of perfecting our title to the property which includes this | logging railway, the chutes, ete.,” said ;Mn Lindley. “John R. Cook was in | debt, and the title of the property was |in him personally and was held by him 1 presume for his company. On ac- count of the danger of attachment at the hands of Cook’s creditors, and the | consequent tying up of the railroad, Mr. | Cook conveyed the railroad to me. I | thereupon made a memorandum agree- ment reconveying the property to Will | Cook and John E. Cook, this memoran- | dum to be held by me; and it was made ‘fur the purpose of the proper transfer | of the property at the time of the expir- | ation of the lease. | “I put the paper away and had not seen it for more than a year when I went on the stand yesterday. Yes- | terday I testified to the best of my | memory and belief that it had not been | signed or executed. I telegraphed for the paper and it came this morning, |and on inspecting it I saw that it had been signed and acknowledged, but | that it had never been delivered. It |is not an executed document. I testi- | fled yesterday to the best of my knowl- | edge and belief, and there was noth- ing for me to gain by misrepresenting the matter.” Attorney H. B. Gillis was placed on ‘lhe stand for the purpose of explain- Ing why he had advised the Klamath | people to disobey the restraining order { of United States Circuit Judge Morrow. | He deemed that it was his duty to his | clients and to the court, he said, not to yield up any more of their rights than he was obliged to. He had told the Deputy United States Marshal that he did not understand that the order required them to give up possession of the property. It was not until after It can only be found by means | had only appropriated $2000 for such pur- | consulting with the other attorneys for chart 1 hold and it is the only | poses and the amount had been exhaust- | the Klamath Company that a doubt |arose in his mind as to the propriety | of the advice he had given the. Cooks. He had left a gang of armed men in the mill, to hold technical possession, | not to have a crowd of men there to | bulldoze or scare people, but simply to hold technical possession so that their | legal rights might be preserved. ‘ “The Cooks have followed my advice i ISLAND, THE HIDING - PLACE OF THE INCAS’ STOLEN TREASURE. | According to the story told by Willis Aumock, one of the returned for- tune-seekers, the lost gold and jewels lie buried in the side hill almost in a direct line with the flagstaff. ed. Meanwhile Black remained in jail, and his attorney, H. Cook, applied to the Supreme Court fo have Mr. Curry com- clled to send up the mrinted records. Ir. Curry made answer to the effect that the fund was exhausted and he could not get any of the printers to do the job, they fearing that they could not get their ay. In-their decision yesterday the Justices hold that the Supervisors have no right to make any special appropriation for the purpose in question, the Legislature directing in no uncertain terms that the county must have records in appeal cases printed and sent to the Supreme Court. The decision concluded: Section 1246 further provides that the cost of the printing shall be a charge against the county, and the county is not exempt’ from _liability therefor by a fallure of the Board of Supervisors to set apart a sufficient fund therefor. Whether the cost of the printing shall be pald by the Clerk in the first instance, or whether the person doing the work shall present his claim therefor to the Board of Superyisors is immaterial. The statute makes it a charge against the county, and, as the incurring of the expense is not within the.control of the Board of Supervisors, it is not competent for that body to determine the amount that shall be gxpended therefor, or by’ setting apart . an insufficient fund ab- #olve the Clerk from his duty to cause the record to be printed and transmitted to the clerk of this court. The order asked for is granted. —_———.——— The Kreling Troubles. The case of Martin Kreling and his son ‘William, charged with using vulgar lan- guage by Mrs. Ernestine Krelihg and Al+ bert Snyder, her friend, was called in Judge Campbell's court yesterday morn- ing_and by consent continued for two weeks. It Is expected that by that time the dispute about the furniture factory will be amicably adjusted. —_——————— A Thing qf the Past. The Odd Fellows’' Library is a thing of the past. It was closed on the 1st inst, and vesterday a force of men was engaged in removing the books. Fourteen hundred of these were taken to the San Francisco Free Library. GUS GARSON, 288 Kearny street, near Bush, sells “STANDARD" shirts. . as I had given it, and if any conte has been committed it S;las c:)nn]::“ through my advice,” continued Mr. Gillis. “T didn’t think that the restrain. | ing order required us to give up all | possession of the premises and prop- | erty involved, but I considered that the | order was made for the purpose of preventing us from interfering with any property of which we had con- structive possession.” “You advised the Cocks to hold the mill by force of arms if necessary?” asked Mr. Pillsbury of the witness. “Yes, sir.” “After you had read the order of the Circuit Court?” “Yes, sir. As soon as I had a con- sultation with Messrs. Stratton & Den- son we sent a dispatch ordering that | no more men should be put into the | restraining | mill and to take out those who were in | there.” After the witness had left the stand Judge Morrow remarked that whenever | there is any question as to thé mean- ing or authority of a restraining order a motion should be made to dissolve | the injunction. Whenever lawyers are | in doubt about such matters they go to the court for enlightenment. Attorney Pillsbury, for the Pokegama | Sugar Pine Lumber Company, said that | if any of the attorneys on the other side had gone to the court the next day they could have been informed as to the court’s idea of the scope of the re- straining order. The matter was taken under advise- ment, and the court directed that the restraining order should remain in force under the final disposition of the dispute. ——— . Three Small Failures. J. W. Porter, living at 2229% Sutter street, has failed for $347 30. Carl H. Burg and Amella Burg, who were engaged in the livery stable busi- ness, have failed for $1437 07. Their assets garlmn of 3320, including $70 outstanding s. 8. Poulsen, a blacksmith at 870 How: | wheeler dropped stern first IN THE WAKE OF THE FREE TRADE. The schooner Altair has been fitted out to hunt for the “Island of Gold” of which H. Talbot Watson and his British associates have gone in search. Captain Gilbert of the Altair says he alone has the exact location of the El Dorado, and that Captain Moore of the Free Trade has only a general . idea. THE PASSING OF CAPT. MASTERS Died Suddenly at Home in Alameda Last Thursday. Had Cleared His Ship and Was Ready to Sail for Santa Rosalia. A Cut Rate Steamship War Between San Francisco and Copp:r River Begun. Captain George W. K. Masters, the well-known and popular master of the barkentine Garden City, died very suddenly at his home in Alameda Thursday evening last. He was around town all of Thursday and cleared his vessel for Santa Rosalia. He engaged one of Spreckels’' tugs to take him to sea yesterday, but the news of his death countermanded the order. Captain Masters was one of the best- known skippers trading in and out of this port. He brought the ship Bar- ing Bros. out here from the East, but left her to go into the coasting trade in one of the Simpson Lumber Com- pany’s vessels. For a number of years he has been master of the Garden City. His figure was a familiar one on the water front,as he always did his travel- ing ashore on a bicycle. The “bike” went with him every voyage and as soon as port was reached Captain Mas- ters took it ashore and used it while the barkentine was being discharged and loaded. Heart disease carried him off. The Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany’'s Orizaba arrived from Mexican ports at an early hour yesterday morn- ing. As soon as her cargo has been discharged she will be put in the Eu- reka trade relieving the steamer Homer which has been under charter to the steamship company. The steamer Cur- acoa, which Captain Goodall recently purchased in the East, has been thor~ oughly overhauled and refitted through- out; she will take the Orizaba’s place in the Mexican trade. Chief Steward O. N. Clark of the steamer Alameda underwent a very painful operation yesterday. A slight swelling on his neck has been gradually | increasing in size of late and several physicians have advised him to have it cut out. Dr. G. M. Hall, the ship's surgeon, got him to consent to an ope- ration and yesterday morning he brought forth his case of instruments and before Mr. Clark knew what was going on the operation was successfully over. He is still going about the ship as though nothing had happened. They had a mishap at the launching of a small stern-wheel steamer in Oak- land yesterday. The little vessel is to g0 to Kotzebue Sound on the schooner Charles Hanson and was to be launched from the foot of Market street. Just as she was sliding into the waters of the creek the ways broke and the stren- into the mud. A derrick had to be erected and the steamer lifted bodily. She was then placed on an even keel in the water and the launching was over. Rate cutting has begun in earnest. The Pacific Steam Whaling Company and the Johnson-Locke Company have agreed upon a uniform rate to meet the cut made by the Seattle steamship owners. The old rate from San Fran- cisco to Copper River was $100 first class and $76 second class. A reduc- tion of $10 has been made in the first class and $15 in the second. From Seattle to Copper River the old rate was $90 and $70 and a cut of $20 has been made in both classes. It is ex- pected that a rate war between here and Dyea and Skaguay will begin in a few days. The schooner TFlorence, Captain Peterson, will sail in a few days for St. Michael. On her arrival there she will be turned into a stern-wheel steamer and dredger eolfibined, and will start up the Yukon. party of six all told are going in her to seek thelr fortunes in the frozen north. ¢ Nathan Cohen, one of the many transfer men who make thelr head- quarters at the ferries, has a very poor opinion of women's gratitude. Yes- terday a well-dressed woman made a run from a Valencia-street car toward the racetrack ticket office. In her mad rush she dropped her purse, and Cohen, coming along a few minutes later, picked it up. He opened it to see if he could find any traces of the owner and discovered $60 in gold and three dia- mond rings. Just as he was handing his find over to the police officer on the beat the woman came running back, crying, “Oh! I've lost my purse.” She described the missing article when questioned, and Cohen’s find was hand- ed over to her. When she found every- thing as when she lost it her expres- sions of thanks were very profuse, but her gratitude only took the form of two 10-cent pieces, which Cohen refused to accept, saying she would probably need carfare home from the races. Captain W. C. Coulson, inspector of the life-saving stations on the coast, left on a tour of inspection along the northern coast yesterday. OUTDOES TIE LUSURIOUS ANYA Mme. Melba Travels in a Spe- cial Train, the Dancer Has Only One Car. A Short Season of Grand Opera to Commence at the California Next Week. In connection with the coming to the California on the 19th inst. of the prima donna Mme Melba, it may be Interesting to note some of the features of her mode of traveling. Mme. Melba’'s train is com- posed of an engine and five coaches, ar- ranged as follows: Two baggage cars, two Pullman sleepers and Mme. Melba's own private car, *“Melba,” which is a palace on wheels. This car was named specially in honor of Mme. Melba and is replete in everything that would enhance the comfort and convenience of the charming songstress even in the remotest degree. No princess ever traveled in greater style than does Melba, and no doubt the coming of her train at the various places at which she is to appear will excite much curiosity. Mme. Melba has her own piano on board, and she often takes occasion to sing a few ballads for those of her 8om- pany who may happen to be with her and to look over the roles of the various grand operas which she expects to pro- duce during her tour through the great West. "The members of Mme, Melba’s company, including Mlle. Toronta, Mme. Mattfeld, Mme. Van Cauteren, Mr. Van Hoose, M. Salignac, Signor Campanari, Mr. Rains, Signor Viviani and Signor Bimboni, will also traveb in state. being provided with the very best accommodations that well- regulated Pullman sleepers afford. The train will be light enough to be adapted to fast travel between stopping points, and .will go through as a “special’ dur- ing the entire tour of over 10,000 miles, which extends from Chicago to San Fran- cisco and_Los Angeles by way of the Union and Central Pacific lines, return- ing b{ way of the Northern Pacific line, stopping en route at Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Butte, St. Paul and neapolis. “It has long been my ambition to ex- plore your great Western country,” said Mme. Melba the other day. *“The fame and glory of the Rocky Mountain scenery have spread all over the civilized world, and to come to America without seeing the Rockles would be as unfruitful and dissatisfying as a visit to Buffalo, N. Y., without going to see the stupendous Falls of Niagara. All the cities at which I ex- Fenl to stop have their especial interest or me—Salt Lake City with its renowned Mormon Temple, the Tabernacle, which I am told will hold 16,000 people, and in which I expect to sing; San Francisco and the Golden Gate, the principal sea- port of the Pacific Coast and metropolis of the West; Los Angeles, the winter home of American pleasure-seekers; Se- attle, Portland and Tacoma, with their varied attractions. With all these in store for me 1 am sure the prospect is all that heart could wish for."” Mme. Melba is a charming woman, and no doubt her admirers in the great West Wil accord her a most enthusiastic wel- come. —_——— A Librarian Dead. ‘Willlam Willlams, who for many years was connected with the San Francisco Free Library, and recently was assistant in the catalogue department, died at Indio yesterday of consumption. He was 25 vears of age. Mr. Willlams for a long perfod of his connection with the library ‘was assistant.in the reference room and won many friends by his kindness of man- ner and desire to assist all who were in gearch of books or information. He leaves a mother in this city. His loss is se- verely felt by all connected with the Ii- brary, The fac-simile street, has failed for $1816 12, with 339 assets, i d_‘umool {s on every wrapper of CASTORIA. CAPTAIN BRANT SEEKS DIVORCE Desertion Is the Ground Alleged for Legal Sep- aration. Twenty-Five Years of Married Life, but Little Har- mony. Both Parties Are Well Known in Army and Social Cir- cles. | On Wednesday last a divorce com- plaint was filed in the County Clerk’s office by Louis 'Philip Brant against Grace Paulding Brant, and back of this legal procedure is a story running through several decades and involving the names of prominent warriors and one of the first families of New York City. There is nothing sational in the com- | plaint, a mere recital of facts, the logical | deduction from which is degertion on th_c part of the wife, and for this Lnu!s‘ Philip Brant prays that a court of Cali-| fornia sever the matrimonial bonds | which have united him with Grace Paulding for over twenty-five years. Louis Philip Brant is at present cap- tain of Company A, First Infantry, U. 8. A., now stationed at the Presidio. His martial reputation has been earned on the field of battle, and his record as a brave and undaunted soldier places him well up in’ the lists of American officers. His wife also comes from a family the men of which have sought the bubble reputation at the cannon’s _mouth. Twenty-five years ago Grace Pauldng | moved in__the exclusive and wealthy circles of New York, a woman whose hand was sought by the gilded youth and | the more substantial specimens of the | genus homo. Of her many suitors the fortunate one was the then Lieutenant Brant, just graduated from West Point. He stormed the citadel and carried away the prize in the face of many odds, for Miss Paulding was reared in luxury and extravagance and the young lieutenant had nothing to his name but the pay and military title which went with his shoulder-straps. Soon after the marriage Mrs. Brant was_left a fortune of $200,000. The hus- band was then stationed in New York and the marital relations were all that could be desired. Then came an order | from the army headquarters which sent | the lieutenant from the city, where metropolitan refinements and luxuries were a component part of his life, to the frontier, where the Indlans were revel- ing in their wild savagery. The life of the barracks was not for the wife, and | the first estrangement occurred on her | refusal to accompany him. Periodically the lieutenant returned to his wife on| leaves of absence, but nothing could in- duce Mrs. Brant to give up her life in| New York. This continued until 1885, when _she moved to Paris, making the | gay French capital her home. For sev- | eral yvears she remained away from | home. On her return to this country she | discovered that her fortune, whichh had been left in the form of a trust, had been dissipated by poor investments. But her old existence still went on. General Dodge, the husband of her sister, domi- ciled Mrs. Brant in his home, and the separation of husband and wife was un-| broken. i For what reasons Captain Brant—for at this time the young officer through good conduct on the frontier had ad- | vanced two pegs in the military system— | does not know, his wife wrote him a con- ciliatory letter, expressing a wish to live with him, but with the proviso that he should install her in a home in the most fashionable part of San Francisco. He was at this time stationed at Angel Isl- and. This condition his slender re- muneration at the bands of the Govern- ment would not allow him to satisfy, and | his answer was made accordingly. All relations at this time ceased until several weeks ago, when Mrs. Brant brought an action for divorce in New York City for limited alimony. The cap- tain responded by bringing a similar ac- | tion in this city. The lawyers say that | he is out of the jurisdiction of New York; | that he is domiciled here and personal service must be brought upon him_ be- fore the matter can be adjudicated. Both | husband and wife are well-known people, the former for his position in the army, the latter for her connection with great military and social families. There is one child of the young man, 21 years of age. —_———— This Week’s | News Letter contains the latest elub | stories and the Crier fills two columns with sarcastic criticism of local people and their sins. 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