The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1901, Page 2

§3)] OHN J. BAXTER is just back from the Philippines and Spice Islands a stirring story of hairbreadth adventures in an effort to recover a lot of treasure burled by a band ™1 l g iy .\\l | ‘ | and Peters discussed the chances of bring- ‘ ing the schoomer Southern Star to the island, after the Sultan's men had drawn | i off, and trying to lift the loot. | I ith Sea pirates. The rendezvous oo .=>‘ ke AT I All might have gone as they planned was surprised: and r: d by the Sultan’s 3 \ ‘ i = \ . Dut-aae. Mght & Jayage woind of the ¥~ orders several months ago. Nearly all S\ s o = _—— . rate began to bleed afresh and his lifs the citlii ot i el st and troubles all went out of him before the morning light. He seemed to know it was coming and told Peters so while the latter bent over him and used all his rough medical skill to stop the life-ebb- ing flow. Peters’ apparent disinterested- ness impressed the sufferer and he told him, almost with his last breath, the ex- act spot where the treasure lay hidden. THe weighted canvas with the body of the pirate was hardly shot overboard when Peters steered a stralght course for the island. It was a rash move, for not only did it put the Sultan’s suspicious soldiers on guard but it warned some half score pi- rates, who had escaped the massacre and were hiding in the jungle. Both of these parties kmew the treasure was somewhere there and the sight of a schooner nosinz if captured, and nelther side gave it. It 2P0ut the offing with a boatload of in- was a fight to the death. quisitive men trying to reach the shors The Sultan’s proas working up the de. URODServed told them as plainly as print vious channel made slow progress when that outsiders had got an inkiing of the opposed by the pirate boats. The best treasure pit and had joined in the quest. they could do was o engage the atten. SO all three parties settled down to stub- tion of the battle and prevent them from POTNIy watch one another. reinforcing the forts. Both sides realized _Feters was the first to give up in dis- He didn’t care for the pirates; he American adventurer. Clifford Peters, ital in one of the return, the pirate re the treasure was buried Clifford Peters w. a Penang resort, and be- died he told the secret to his Baxter. Baxter declares he could to the treasure if a half vigilant Malay pirates did not in the way. These pirates do not where the cache is, but badly THE SIGHT OF A SCHOONER. NOSING ABOUT THE OFFING. HE REPEATED ALL DAGOL TOLD HIM OF THE BURIEDP TREASURE. # is close to a certain spot, dly lves & was only a step across the Basilian Straits to the string of islands that stretch across the sea to the big island of Borneo have interested Luzon par- d form the territory of his magnificent g to lftthe loot, but he gy qjeney the Sultan of Sulu. that any crew signed there — my.¢ rival of the sun, the Sultan of as treacherous as the Pi- g, got up one morning about six termined to return home, oot P T ling very much out. of stand in with him and o,+c He may have been bilious, he may le vessel, properly manned. not have slept well; anyhow, things seemed to go wrong from the moment he certain that I can get the got cut of bed. The first news he received ave the right kind of men s that a batch of slaves had escaped in don't want to take 5 Singapore trader. Then came the tid- once 1 tes had ized a were flung, and when, the ammunition gave out they fell upon each other with knives and hatchets. The arms they used may have looked rusty and obsolete for a modern battle, but there was no question about the fighting courage of the com- batants. Neither side hoped for quarter rmined that no all capture it tryi nd 1 ings that the Tapavi pi t's’ the ha o ay to Sulu with g . s i giant proa on the way { S i the land battle would decide the fortune SUst- ountry te tribute and taxes from the island of Sa- of the day. knew he could beat them out in a fight, bate. This was too much for his Imperial but the Sultan’s men looked too much for s ing So the Sulus ha ed i - < a comparatively young man. Highness. He couldn’t catch the Singa- mmered and pitchforked .~ " 'ie with the cutfit he had With the wretched pirates from house to house toward the waters of the cove, where the crews of the three surviving proas waited with ready guns to blow them into eter- nity. Men, women and children were un- hesitatingly slaughtered while the fury of the fight was on. After it was all over some seventeen wounded pirates were gathered up, manacled and pitched in a prea to be taken back to Sulu as a proof to his Excellency that the insult offered to his Sabate proa had been thoroughly v.iped out. Most of the taxes. tribute. ete., were recovered, together with a lot of ec of the same kind. But the big treasure of the pirates, the loot of several years’ gathering, could not be found. Threats, torture \and promises failed to wring the him. He determined to run over Manila way and pick up recruits for the work among the refuse of the army and the roving adventurers gathered there. But luck went against him. In a saloon up the Penang River he got into a row with a Filipino over the sale of a lot of copra they had bought on speculation the year before, and Peters was stabbed. His friends did. all they could for him, but what with his irritability over conflne- ment when the treasure was almost with- in his grasp and the enervating climate he was quickly in a bad way. Baxter found him groaning, cursing his fate and the doctor when he reached the village on his rounds of buying up the season’s hemp. pore trader, and if he did he might get can d the University of California 1, into trouble with g British or Amer! e before the n-of-war, but with a little persistency in the y. could catch those nira In that and ayent every civilized power would pat him the war was dispatched to the on the hack for ta a whack out of a 1 busin stern firm »cal agency to ascertain the chances of yjrate trade there. He is a careful. 54 earni and never allows himself v he was getting up to date £ his pay from Uncle Sam. Be. les, the Sultan very much wanted to e the regular chan- yecover the original . tribute and s ilative realms. toxes from the pirates, together with THREATS, TORTURE HE BUMPED INTO A his motto. That is why what loot _ his enterprising officers AND PROMISES CRAZY LOG RAFT. t : . g FAILED. re that there must be mi pture in their vill of treasure buried in T an had had h . else Baxter would not nest of pirates for some time and had fig t it would be a very profitable ck outs! s into sp ge. ve on this same 1 money in gef- ured out tha roke to exterminate and time company to go after it. CIff Lusine first white man the village of such a successful lot of un- o scaso v “Baxter,” sa relieved Peters, “you treasure. Peters conscionable looters. secret of its hidimg place from any of the Tatay,” said the o ye. dy adventur ) the Sultan ordered out several of his survivors. They all affirmed that the chiefs 100K more like an angel than anybody I've pirits of swashbuckle fighting vessels and told the com- alone knew-its whereabouts. Seven of the 360 #ince I've been in this God-forsaken country.” He wrung his old school friend’s hand and began to ery. He was very low at the time. His old fatalism still clung to him. “T'll go like Dagol,” he said. “I'll go out in the dark and won't see the sunrise, but stay with me, Jack, old man. Stay with me when I'm going, and I'll make 1t worth your while.” Baxter promised him he wouldn't desert him in that out-of-the-way place, and the When o8 iy hotamiped iate & evasy log grateful Peters gave him a hint of the 1aft bearing all tgat was left of the half- i .\o.y yreqsure. For a time Baxter starved an@ Bgdly wounded pirate sub- i, ,gnt thé story of the treasure was but chief, Dagol. How long it had been since ;o vagary of a man suffering with a the. pirate pushéd, off from the island g, oreq wound. Later on, however, Peters when the last of his cronles were beln& yyppjied him with a line of facts which slaughtered by the Sultan's soldlers no . hoyeq there were cold, hard elements of one could gucss, least of all Dagol him- (. hin the story. self, for he was in a raging fever and Sure enough, as Peters had predicted, completely out of head. The pictur- esque situation of the hacked up pirate, his dress, and the jewels he wore, appeal- ed to the fancy of the adventurous Pe- T o % wild adventures he had had. Before it glory from the part of the southern seas . goq pe related all that Dagol had told where he came from. So Peters got out ., o the puried treasure and how he the medicinre chest and set to work to patch up the battered pirdte. It was a hard and discouraging job for both par- ties, though to do Peters due credit he never wavered from his task. But the Sul- tan's men had made too good a job in their cfforts to hack the life out of the rte, He came to consciousness all right, ard for a time he appeared to be getting slowly better: then came a period of ups and downs, the ups having a slight de- gree the better of it. Peters thought he leading chiefs were among the dead, two of them, Mulof and Dagol, had somehow ped. So a guard was left over the blazing ruins and the proas sailed away with the recovered tribute and the sev- enteen pirates doomed to execution. CHf Peters, risen to the position of part owner and master of the trading schoon- er Southern Star, was cruising around a man who would have been conspicu- manding officers to bring back the heads ous had he lived in the venturesome days of the pirates, together with their tr ke. Baxter first met ures, or prepare themselves for punish- school here. At ment. es of Raleigh arn ers in a prepar: nest was in a land-locked ng to go to the The pirates’ ym whose cove, magnificently situated for defen a cattle range in Arizona bore A narrow, winding channel led through th on a vacation. Thereafter the treacherous coral reefs to the small ys were ended for Peters. river bay. The island .itself jwas distant too much from the regular routes of vessels, and'no’ the Mex- navigator would have suspected the h sight for bor entrance unless he had been feeling se_inshore.- The t time he was planr but a sche the range wa ears, ti ay several of his along the coast Vi pumped into him packing his cove not only was defended hy,proas but e Chilkoot pass in ‘the first two forts near the shore mounted several for the Klondike. He was four and six pounders. The guns were ame Peters, full of adventure somewhat out of date, but very useful in , out for anything. He case of an attack by native xperienced all On the land side the pirates had run a who is just line of ramparts around their entire vil- lage. It was stiffened by three forts, like- wise outfitted with several small cannon. Sultan’s officers through old-time alwaye declared he would never deserters from the camp had a fairly good contract to work for Uncle Sam idea of the layout of the pirate Village. r man for a year or more. He They knew better than to attempt to ways wanted to be his own boss, besides Treach it by the channel. Bright and early money to be ©one day they sent four fighting proas as decoy to engage the attention of the There were seven pirate proas wi the night came when his wound began to bleed afresh. It seemed to knock the hope and life out of him. He talked about the old schoolboy days while Baxter car came he was off but not as a soldier. The had satisfled himself of the truth of the story when he visited the island on the Southern Star and pirates and soldiers stood between him and it. He advised Baxter how to go about lifting it and then, as with the wounded pirate, his life went out just before the dawn. That was over four months ago. Baxter had to arrange his business affairs before he could devote his whole time to the matter of lifting the treasure. But he is it pbil hie ik thxadglt-and:tald hiwy T84y, for it now. Thet ls why'Be W come to this country and is now going so. It was during this period that the tWo . ¢ ; jnierest certain business friends became quite friendly and the pirate told oot 10 IMNErest CorE o e who thimik all abeut the life on the island and the there is enough in it to warrant their in- last big fight. He let fall hints about the vesting in the company that is being buried treasure and in a general way he formed. ght . was m, picked up in the wake of the army by a 2 who had his wits about him. Gen- birates. and his subordinates made it in the b they were speedily got under Manila for Peters and Way and njoved out cheerfully to meet the rs didn’t mind that. He attack. Meanwhile the crews and sol- was after a big clean-up, and he knew it diers in five other proas had been disem- s somewhere in the Philippines, and all barked and marched around to the attack was req i was a little time and ©on the land side. Within an hour the land o locate and lift it. But pres- and water forces on each side were ham- ring hard at each other. The guns on his drifting, this time blazed ow lete old cannon seductive currents that wind roared and smoke. Some of mong the thousand and one them burst and killed as mar ong the South Sea Islands. From defenders as among the enemy, but Luzon he went to Palawan, then to Iloilo neither side minded such accidents in the thence to Mindanao. From there it fury of the engugement. ‘‘Stinkpot rm in a his ilk, but Pet got too hot for Peters and M€ A Monkey Whese|Qlothing Siems) SaGacity Was | %o Rave Reen | Not Rewarded. Their RuUin. | | (@ OME rgmarkable stories of the sa- ' EDUCED by disease and famine to ty and intelligence of monkeys | the mere remnart of a tribe, two- > frecuently toid in the brokers’ | Q core Cocopah Indians, with their ces and other places of resort | quaws and fifty puny, suffering sailors who have voyaged to | children, crossed the Mexican side of the wternational line, below Yuma, a few r 1552 when 1 was |days ago. With no land to call their own ish brig Glenmore, the little band had been practically driven “The captain had | from the civilzation that had ruined | which he had obtained | land off the coast of Japan. st was a remarkably intel- d the evidences of its fer. A Spider That|The Progess of Was Devoted | Manufacilring fo Musig. | Rubbzr Bands. fi N astonished but apparently satis- THE little elastic rubber band that is SN fied spider was one upon which a nowadays used in various businesses v sentleman recently made an ex- in place of twine seems a simple sort periment. The result of his in hing, but there are few if any vestigations is told in Public Opinion as | of the multitudinous articles made out follows: of rubber for which there is such an enor- “While watching some spiders one day | mous demand, especially in the United it occurred to him to try what effect the | States,” remarked a wholesale dealer in sound of a tuning fork would have upon | Fubber bands in New York to the writer them. He had a strong suspicion that | the other day. “In this country the num- they would take it for the buzaing of a | Per of rubber bands sold in one year fly. Selecting a large, fat spider that had | amounts to about 400,000 gross, or 57,000,000 long been feasting on flies, he sounded the | Single bands. At least 60 per cent of the fork and touched a thread of the spider’s | §00ds are made in New York and the rest sovthern waters, It was in the ye cabin boy on the is known of the Cocopaks than of other tribe in North America. In 1689 Father Rodriguez visited them and 1 e many. | described the men &s belng of cxtraordin “One day while cruising off the north ize. They have always persist:l f ligent animal a brain side. Over his wonderful telephone wires the buzzing sound was conveyed to the watching spider, but from his position he ! could not tell along which particular line the sound was traveling. “He ran to the center of the web in hot haste and felt all round until he touched the thread against the other end of which the fork was sounding. Then, taking an- other thread along with him as a precav- coast of Australia our nr. mate was luk‘- | keeping to themselves. For a long time web. | @re produced in factories located in New ; our reckoning of latitude and longl- | iheir tribe has been growing smaller and “The owner was at one edge of his web | Jér¥e¥ and New England. In New York ¥ He had the sextant upon the top of | their physical proportions have been di- there are a ha!f dozen f: i voted 1e aft cabin. The monkey, after cagrefully | minjshed. B | and the thread selected was on the other |~ .c_ " actories devoted : i | partly or exclusively to the manufacture of rubber bands. “The process by which the bands are made is simple. The rubber in a liqui state is molded into tubing of sizes suita ble for forming the small and mediur varieties of bands. When the tubing ready for use it is put into a rapid | ning machine having knives, whic or slice the rubber into bands. The larg er bands are cut by machinery from erving every move for a while, seized The Cocopahs attribute their retrogr instrument and ran up aloft with'it. | sicn to the assumption of-clothing. Be- rched in the Tigging he amused himself | fore they learned the wi of the white | imitating the actions of the mate. man, and donned trousers and shirts, “As no reckoning had been taken for | they knew no illness. Since then disease < we did not know just where | has ravaged the tribe. Last winter many 1 as the shoals in the sur-|of them died of pneumonia, aud two | ng waters were very dangerous the | months ago smallpox broke out among 1e sextant would be a heavy one. | them. Scores of the Indians have died of the captain and mate knew that to | the disease. HE TOLP HIM ALMoST WITH HIS LAST B N REATH THE EXACT SPOT WHERE THE TREASURE LAY HIDDEN. £0 up after the beast would be to cause | For weeks an armed guard has Kept the tionary measure, he ran out to the fork him to throw the sextant either upon the | Cocopahs awly from Yuma, their scle ? and sprang upon it. :::esdo:cr:;b:r s o s deck or into the water, $0 it was decided | Source of supplies. As a result the In- “At this point he found out his mistake. | ‘‘Rubber b ;"“ S JESSNINY Mnchine 1o wait his leisure. After several min- | dians have suffered from lack of food ana = R —— ————————————————————— He retreated for a short distance, a'\i colors. b'ackan ; :re NN S ow ¢ ' 2 . black an rown. They rang stopped to survey this new buzzing crea- ture which should have been a fly, but size from one-quarter of an inch to SiT Inches in length. The smallest bands ar> e seemed to tire of the sport and came | ¢ine except their own concoctions, utes of ‘monkeying’ with the instrument | other suvplies, while they have no medi- A “insular dollar” is urgently stitution m ufactured 329,000 1 ¢ . 5 = Nb w i I factur 29, gola pieces wanted in the Philivpines, where J\r (o) cne @® for Costa Rica, the demohifnations being jeisurely down and placed the sextant| Recently the last vestige of their vil- i A i % } upon the cabin top in the same position | 1ages was wiped ont, the guards burning the Mc‘xlvan “mn..r is getting 0 ", 5 colons, 10 colons and 20 colons. A colon :;‘:r sstere:-n“lzt‘;:ly‘.::h“y Insect he had | one-sixteenth of an inch wide and frem which he had, taken it. Evers one | @]l that the red men left behind.. The Co Bearce wn lo, InjertMe sTOch hesi Unc‘e Sam’s Imane oae Vinced that the abjoct 8% (he watar Lors | mrsest Are one and a half inches wide on bosrd breathed: tessly. amilia, bt el :oly.ra'hs have joined another branch of the | ess. 1f Congress authorizes such a coin Uncle Sam advertises to do job work of | Y'see Rt the oblec ";t ;-e outer edge | The smallest bands are worth 24 ce the mscnkalr Soohid N oo Fia b urfln;:]zv;x:;nn-n\e miles below the interna- | it will resemble the Mexican dollar, wiil - this king for any nation that chooses to | 5 FE N able for amuse- | per gross, while the medium sized bands o raclirarasr. s s ek dgtay e. be of the same ‘““f" and wilj be redeem- M",‘E. oy il Ahut T eRstomere ek tha : . dm- an article of diet, he got on | sell at from 48 to 9 cents per gross who! s able for 50 cents in gold. Thus it w minor republics in the Western Hemis- |t 288in and danced with pleasure. It was|sale. Larger sizes cost from §1 up ¢ great disappointment.”—Baltimore Sun. | “Can’t you lend me $?" asked vl B . subscriber, entering the sammmfhfi:\{‘s‘.‘, | find its way readily into circulation and Government stamps many a queer plece Dhere. He gets ail the contracts they 4 2 3 iy replied the editor, grufly, “P. " | will put the archipelago on a gold bas of ey 8 . have to give out, because he charges only mzj;,.n",s:nn’,:zu‘::"‘h:“’;;';’d:'_lbe!‘,“g self- | ing much, eh?” rcioried the ot 40-1 "ot course it will Le minted in Philadel. ever seen, a;ga'thc‘;zgoginl‘na:rfie Z‘x’fifi?r Ll ety B B B G : wite. o e e perineid the editor, pointed- | phia, where all tho uut-of-the-way coins City mint includes some of these con- B s, inaee IO wtiat | WAED. GRS 90 s Meikveny i g our own.' | that Uncle Sam turns out are made. Our. tracts. For exampic, last year that in-' sibly find uut.—sa“!ur‘d;:y Evening !::“x:_os- :;: P Jhe Smine 'of s gwen waods « . - evident that the sound of the fork was music to him.” ¢ e —— —_— per gross. “The greatest consumers of rubber bands are druggists and grocers. Thev use the smallest and medium sized bands In place of twine for putting up small Packages,