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KINTTO BELOiAHSi
New Immigrants are Well I
Treated in the South. i
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INVESTIGATION IS MADE !
Baron Moncheur, Belgian Rcpresen- ;
tative at Washington, Mafces a
Special Tour and Gives
Out Good Report. j
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Baron Moncheur. th:? Belgian min- i
ister, who has just returned to Wash- !
ington from a visit to South Caro- |
lina, where he went to investigate j
the condition of the Belgians who j
came over on the Wittekind, finds j
the south a good place for his people.
He finds, after ten days of investigation,
that the reports of dissatisi
faction have been exaggerated, and
that the Belgian immigrants are very
well satisfied and have no complaint
to make. The baron commented on
the lower wage scale in the south as
being the only possible ground for
dissatisfaction. His investigations
did not cover the cheap cost of living
in the south, and he was not prepared
to say that lower prices of commodities
balanced lower wages'.
In the party brought over by Commissioner
E. J. Watson, of South j
Carolina, last winter there were about i
30o Belgians, who are ^aow employed 1
in the cotton mills, aud in various
trades in South Carolina. Since then
South Carolina and* other southern
states have sought to induce new immigrants,
anu particularly Belgians, to
come in.
> Speaking of these Belgians in South
Carolina, Baron Mopcheur said: "I
saw all of them except a few who
are scattered, and they had very litV
tie complaint to make of the treatment
which they are receiving. Of
course, there are a few who are not
satisfied, but they are very few. I
visited them at their work iu the cotton
mills, and they told me that they
were pleased with their labors and
the treatment given them.
"1 have no criticism to make of
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the work they are doing in the mills.
It is not hard work at all, and they
rmake very fair wages. It is the kind
.of work which would suit a large
number of our people, especially those
having families. A boy or a girl 12
to 14 years of age and upward can
easily make 50 cents a day and more
in the mills.
'Of course, the masons and carpenters
earn better wages. Those
who come over and follow these
trades are experienced men, and
good, steady workmen. They find
plenty of work to do, and are paid
well, as I have found.
"It would be a great deal better if
.? there were a good sized colony in
' the state, such as there is near Rochester,
N. Y. Our people there are
getting along nicely, and are satisfied,
and it is particularly because
a number of them are together."
Concerning those who left South
Carolina dissatisfied, Baron Moncheur
said that the number was not very
. large. "Those who left would probably
not have been satisfied under any
circumstances," he said. "The propor*
tion that has left South Carolina dissatisfied
is not any greater than that
which has left other states. We have
bad some complaints from the immiN
grants who went there, but not many.
On the whole, they have gone to work
there and are contented.''
Several reports have been circulated
since the Baron returned to Washington
to the effect that he was advising,
or had advised his people
against going to the south on account
of the negro. Baron Moncheur said
that this was entirely erroneous. "I
V see no reason why the negro should
deter anybody. My observation -is
the white people and the negro in
the south do not associate, either socially
or at work. They do not work
together in the cotton mills or in any
other industry. The one way in which
the negro is at all to be considered
, in this connection is that the negroes
in the cotton fields and elsewhere
on the farm can work for
cheaper wages than our people, and
hence our people could scarcely expec;
to compete with these laborers
on the farm. Otherwise, the negro
has nothing to do with the case, and
if you hear that I have advised any
of our people not to go south, you may
say tor me that it is simply not so.
1 have never advised anything of the
kind -any^ere."
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Census of District of Columbia.
A police census just completed at
Washington gives the population of
. the District of Columbia as 321),391,
of t.hom 96,1 S3 are negroes.
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HARRIMAN IMPORTS LABOR.
fc P.aiircracl Magnate Will Experiment
With Russians and Chinese.
A London special says: E. 11. Hurriman,
the American railway mag.
nate, will experiment with Chinese
and Iiussiahis as workmen in building
a line in Mexico, and 1.400 laborers
are now on their way from
Vladivostok to Mexico for that purpose.
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"deadly work of blast."]
Premature Explosion Kills Several i
| Men, Hurls Train Into Creek and
Wrecks Nearby Buildings.
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A Chattanooga speciai says: Three j
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men killed outright, three others so j
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seriously injured .that they will die, j
and two others badly injured in ad- j
! d it ion to the crashing of a Southern j
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railway freight engine and eleven cars j
through a bridge into Chattanooga I
! creek and the destruction of three j
' residences and a pile driver nearby, j
was the result of a premature explo- j
nr 5-m n'rlnnu- Thursdav after- i
; noon of a blast at the foot of Look-'
! out mountain on the Stevc-nson exten1
sin which is being constructed by W.
J. Oliver & Co.
The bridge was crushed in by sev* j
l eral tons of rock hurled by the blast
just as the Southern railway freight
i train Nq. 11 was going on the bridge.
Other pieces of rock hurled for four
| hundred yards crashed through the
pilot of the pile driver of the Xash|
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail!
road, which was at work driving piles
! in Chattanooga creek for a new viaduct,
killing Engineer Shaefer and
Fireman Hyder instantly.
Other pieces of rock hurled five \
and six hundred yards struck the res- !
idences on the side of Lookout moun- j
j tain, crashing through the roof and !
floors of the buildings.
Several men who were working on i
j the new line some distance from the I
' hioct wprp struck bv flying pieces of
I rock. Two of them are at tile hospital j
in a serious condition.
The blast was set off by J. Ford, j
a powder man for the Yarnell Broth- i
ers, contractors for Oliver, against the j
instructions of the contractors. He
had only been employed by the company
for a short time. At a late hour
he could not be located. The blast was
| one of the heaviest ever used on work
j in this section of the country. No
! warning was given to the residents
j in the vicinity or to the, Nashville,
i Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad,
| whose property was destroyed.
| OFFICIALS ARE INDICTED
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As Result of Confession of "Boss"
Ruef in 'Frisco?Grand Jury Hears
From Him ancj Takes Action.
A San Francisco special says; Abraham
Ruef Thursday made good his
declaration of Wednesday that he
would, following his change of plea
of guilty in the extortion case against i
him, turn state's evidence and assist
the bribery graft prosecution in Its
campaign against municipal corrup- J
tion.
Ruef, obeying a subpena from the i
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grand jury, servea upuu jihu ai cuv <
Fillmore street prison house shortly
before 3 o'clock, went in the charge
of Special Agent Burns, Elisor Biggy
and another guard to the grand jury
chamber, where he took the witness
stand and submitted to aa examlnaj
tion that lasted from 3:20 o'clock un!
til after 5 p. in.
j When the ordeal was over he called
the newspaper men around him and j
said that he had promised the grand J
jury to divulge nothing. District At- j
torney Langdon and Assistant District j
Attorney Heney refused to make any j
statement whatever. From Special j
i Agent Burns it was learned that the j
| only matter in which Ruef was ques- j
1 tioned was the alleged bribing of I
Mayor Schmitz and eighteen supervisors
by the United railroads to 1
grant to that corporation a change In
its franchise allowing the electrifying
of its 250 miles of street railway
system.
\f Burns' understanding of Ruef's
testimony is correct the fallen boss
told the grand jury that President
Patrick Calhoun, Assistant President
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Mullaly, Chief Counsel Ford and Asi
sistant Counsel Abbott of the United
! Railroads, paid or caused to be paid
the sum of $200,GOO for the provision
named; that $01,000 of this amount
was Ruef's "fee;" thai $50,000 went
into the pocket of Mayor Schmitz and
that the remaining $00,000 was hand!
ed to the eighteen supervisors, sixi
teen of them receiving $4,000 each,
j another demanding and getting $10,!
00o and Chairman Galagher of the
. finance committee, being paid $13,000
for acting as go-between.
BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM.
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! Longshoremen's Strike at New York
l Beina Sitterlv Waqed.
| Both the representatives of th9
! trans-Atlantic steamship companies
j and the striking longshoremen at
! New York maintain a firm position in
j their respective stands.
1 The steamship men declare that
i they are moving ships and such
I freight as may be speedily handled
j with the aid of non-union men.
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ASHEVSLLE IS CHOSEN
I As Place of Meeting of Next General
Conference of Methodists.
} The next general conference o? the
! Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
| will be held at Asheville, N. C., in
| 1910. Such was the decision reached
I at Nashville Wednesday by ihe spe(
j cial committee to decide the matter
! appointed at the last general conferj
ence in Birmingham, Ala.
OKLAHOMA HELD UP
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Republicans Determined Not }
to Admit New State. j
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WOULD BE INADVISABLE !
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For Poiitical Reasons Hold-Up May j
Be Successfully Carried Out.
Plan is to Turn Down Newly
Maopica VrfUnsxuuxion.
A Washington special says: The
pious unction with which the republican
leaders are proceeding in the attempt
to withhold statehood from
Oklahoma and the high moral
grounds on which they rest their objections
are really impressive. .
In the enabling act, passed by congress
and approved by President
Roosevelt on June 16, 1906, it was
set forth that there should be five
congressional districts in the territory
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
when they were admitted to
the union as one state. This wouid
give Oklahoma five representatives in
congress and two senators, thus entitling
her to cast seven votes in the
electoral college.
Of course the advocates of admission
were reasonably sure that these
were going to be good republican
votes. The first election, however,
completely disabused the minds of
all.
Such an overwhelming evidence of
the democratic tendencies of the people
was abundant proof to republicans
that Oklahoma was "undesirable."
They were tiying to convince PrtsiPoMcovolr
nl<?n that it would not
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be wise to permit these seven dcm- I
oCratic electoral votes to unfavorably
complicate the situation when a rof
publican president is to be elected
next year. The men who were grooming
themselves to be republican seni
ators and representatives are sure it
would not be wise; it might be disastrous.
The constitution of the new state,
framed by democrats who were duly
and regularly elected by the people
to draft their fundamental law, is being
carefully and painfully scrutinized
in the search for flaws. If a technicality
can be discovered which will
furnish grounds for exclusion there
will be no need to resort to the legislative
club, which is held by the
republican majority in both houses.
Then, too, the high moral grounds
can be maintained.
In the act of congress making provision
for the admission of the new
state it was provided that the fol- lowing
features should be incorporated
in the new constitution;
"Perfect toleration of religious sentiment.
"Prohibition of traffic in alcoholic
liauors for a period of twenty-one
years in the parts of the state now
known as Indian Territory, the Osage
Indian reservation and in other parts
of the state which existed as Indian
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reservations on January l, 19Wo.
"Prohibition of polygamous and
i plural marriages.
I "Release of the public lands within
the state to the United States.
- " Payment of the debts of the territory
of Oklahoma by the state of
Oklahoma.
"Establishment of public schools, allowing
separate schools for white and
negro children. ,
"The right of franchise unrestricted
on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude."
There is also a further injunction
tl^at a republican form of government
must be secured.
The 110 delegates to the convention
adopted a document which they
believed encompassed all the instructions
given them by congress and later
by the president on the subject
of jim crow cars and the control of
corporations. This done, the democrats
made such disposition of the
I legislative districts that the republii
cans claim it will be impossible for
them ever to elect a United States
senator.
MISSION FUND APPORTIONED.
i Board of Methodist Church, South,
Completes Its Work.
j The woik of the mission board of
\.y m r'Viiicfth sirmth was coil- 1
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eluded at. Nashville, Tenn., Friday,
alter tile adoption of a plan tor me
inauguration of horn . ;sions au.l
{ the apportionment ol' uie fund to bo
J raised for the work in the foreign field
during the ensuing year.
The total amount appropriated to
the mission conferences for the ensuing
year was $3S3,4S3, and the total
i amount to be raised by the home cont
ference is $S0G,t>31.5J.
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j INCREASE FOR OPERATIVES.
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! ..? c?nianS Mills Will Make Ad
j hew j_.ia.
vance of Ten Per Cent.
J According to advices I'roni the lead- \
ing cotton mill centers of southern j
New England fully So,0t)0 operatives !
j will have their wages advanced about
j lu per cent.
j The latest upward movement in mill
j v.jjiges originated in Fall River, where
I a new agreement recently announced
j provides for a higher schedule slay 27. j
GOULDS ARE AT OUTS.
Deserted Wife of Howard Drags Her
Hubby Into Divorce Court Under
Salacious Allegations.
At Xew York Monday, Mrs. Howard
Gould filed against her husband,
the millionaire yachtsman, a suit for
separation, one of her most astonishing
aiegations being that because
of his personal habits he is an improper
person 10 live with. The com- |
plaint is highly sensational, charging j
Gould with consorting with uumer-1
ous women.
Almos;;: as astounding as the actual j
beginning of the already famous di- j
vorce case are developments iu the I
investigation into the use of police
headquarters detectives by Howard
Gouid -against Mrs. Gould. District
Attorney Jerome will consult with
Police Commissioner Bingham, going ,
over all of the evidence thus far adduced
in the case with the possible
result that he may begin a grand jury
proceeding to see just what there is j
to the conspiracy charged by Mrs. j
Gould.
Mrs. Gould's complaint gainst her j
husband covers every one of the four
grounds on which it is possible to secure
a separtion. Under the first j
charge, that he is not a proper person
to live with, it is said that some !
exceedingly distressing facts will be'
presented in the bill of particulars
?r at the time ef the trial.
The second charge is that he abandoned
her. Since last July Mrs. Gouid j
has been living at the St. Regis, recognized
for some time as the city
home of the Gouids, and her husband
has not once visited her.
Non-support is the third ailegtaion.
In September last Gould is said to I
have discontinued providing Mrs. I
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Gould with funds, and until very recently
she is said not to have re- I
ceived a single penny from him.
Under the fourth charge, that of
cruel and inhuman treatment, many
specifications are made, one of which
is that Gould, at the time of their
separation, sent notices to all of the!
trades people with whom he has been
dealing instructing them not to give
her any credit if they had any idea
of collecting their accounts from him.
This was at a ti>ie when he was
trying to force her to accept his terms
in the financial feature of their sep- j
aration, and she charges that in this !
way he endeavored to compel her to I
submit to his wishes.
Another of the specifications is that J
. he has humiliated her, constantly J
surrounding her with detectives, caus-1
ing her mail to be opened and subjecting
her to many similar annoy-j
ances.
A friend of Mrs. Gould says that
when details are presented to the
court, Mrs. Gould will state that one
of the worst, of the many indignities
heaped upon her was the fact that
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gis hotel her husband was openly paying
attentions to another woman living
at the same hotel.
"Mrs. Gould knows that her hus
band is worth at least $20,000,000,'
said a friend of thh lady, "and thai
he has an assured income of $1,000,oOO
a year, and she asks for alimony
at the rate of $100,000 a year during
the time the case is in court. At the
time of the trial she will make a
demand for permanent alimony or
$180,000 a year."
Counsel for Mrs. Howard Gould
said that the suit will be tried in
open court, adding: *
"Mrs. Gould desires that full publicity
be given to it, and she refuses
to spare any one engaged in the plot
against her."
EXPLOIT OF NEGRO CONVICT.
Captures Ten of His Fellow Prisoners
Who rtad Escaped.
Fourteen additional misdemeanor
convicts have escaped from the Sumter
county, Georgia, chaingang, making
a round total of about thirty escaping"
leceiitly, and costing the county
thousands of dollars. Tne. fourteen
psranins. disarmed two of the three
guards, while ihe third guard is reported
to have ded the scene, the convicts
deriding him, as he sprinted
after the fourteen escapes, who had
been gone some hours.
Another-convict, Brady Reddick,
found the gun of the decamping
guard, and thus armed pursued the
fugitives. He captured ten of his fellow
prisoners, and returned th^m tc
camp at the point of his gun, after
wards chaining them.
This brilliant feat of a negro convict
is applauded by the citizens, oi
Americiis.
The four convicts who finally go;
away had ail escaped previously^ and
were recaptured within the past
month at a cost of $500 to the county
in rewards and expenses.
DIAZ MAKING A BLUFF.
Kr- ? A r?i Reinn Sent tc
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Guatemalan Frontier.
Mexican troops "^.rc being removed
to the Guatemalan frontier. This information
reached the Mexican capi
tal in a private telegram Monday, la
what numbers or for what purposes
these soldiers are being moved southward
is not known outside oi ohicia
circies.
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THE SEA GIVES UP TWO
MONTH-LONG BATTLE ON SHIPBOARD
BETWEEN CHINESE AND RUSSIANS
A Thousand Rabid Cooiies and Maddened
Peasants Engage in Deadly Combat at
AH Hours of the Day and Night
During Maori King's Last
' Trans-Pacific Yoyage. '
San Diego. Cal.?With nearly 1000
enraged Chinese and 200 maddened j
Russians rushing in mobs at each
other, thirsting for blood and a fight
to the death while a helpless crew of i
half a hundred friendly Chinese and
three lonely English officers stood
between the murderous assaults in
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only to be set upon by both forces,
while a crowded ship rolled wildly in
a fierce storm?such was the awful,
experience on board the British ship ,
Maori King, which sought San Diego
Harbor, forced to run for refuge here
in order to prevent what appeared to
be certain wholesale slaughter.
As a result of the race war six Russians
and two Chinese lie dead and
more than 200 are dangerously
wounded from knife thrusts. According
to Captain J. W. Duncan, in command
of the stricken ship, the Maori
King left Vladivostok with 921 Chinese.
417 Russians, a crew of fiftysix
Chinese, who had long been in the
service of the boat and their officers;
Captain Duncan, First Officer T. S.
Vernon and Second Officer T. H. Oxlev.
It appears that a Chinese contractor,
Lee Sun Sai, lured the Chinese
on board the ship from the vicinity
of Harbin on a promise to land them
in San Francisco. When two days
out he told thera a mistake had been
made, and the boat would land them
at Guayamas, Mexico. Oil learning of
this deception the Chinese broke out
in mutiny, chased the officers of the
ship into their cabins, attacked those
of the Chinese crew who remained
faithful and then started a race 'war
on the Russians. *
The officers finally fought their
way out, and, after shooting a score
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oi tiie umnese, regameu cuuuui u*. |
the ship. All of the horrors of mutiny
rampant with a horde of rabid
coolies of the lowest and basest type
engaging in deadly combat all hours
of the day and night for nearly a
month, were intensified by the filth
of the passengers and the rotten
decks, unwashed and putrefying with
a thick coating of offal, blood and
foul garbage.
Disease broke out among the Chinese,
making the situation worse.
As they refused to allow the surgeon
near them over a hundred died like
rats and were thrown overboard.
' It was a real hell ship," according
to First Officer T. S. Vernon, "and
I have seen some pretty tough lots in
my time.
"Just a week ago we were caught
in a frightful storm. Even with a
free crew we would have had great
^difficulty in riding her out. - But with
a row going on between the Russians
and the Chinese it was awful. * The
propeller shaft smashed through its
steel case and it took lis two days to
repair it. All of this time we were j
being beaten to and fro in a raging j
storm, the waves washing clear over j
the decks. But the Chinese and |
! Russians were bent on murdering :
! each other, and the battle still went j
on. Then the Chinese called for the j
life of Lee Sun Sai, the contractor.
"During the blackest night, the
Chinese, most of them stripped bare'
! to the waist, their brown bodies slick
and shining in the lightning flashes, j
surged back and forcli, nearly a thou- j
sand of them, brandishing long J
! knives and screaming hoarsely in J
their hideous gibberish like so many i
fiends on Walpurgis night.
"They rushed at the Russians again !
and again, cutting and slashing and |
stabbing. The officers were simply ;
helpless."
British Vice-Consul Allen Hutch- '
inson has appealed to the military \
j authorities, and orders have been re- i
i ceived from Washington that as many j
j soldiers as necessary to quell the mu- j
; tineers be detailed from Fort Rose- j
crans. Captain Dnncan asks that the
United States allow a guard to accompany
the Maori King to Guayamas.
as the Chinese cannot be landed j
oil this side. :
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Bull i in ore Goes Democratic.
I Barry Mahool, Democrat, and !
| President of the First Branch, City .
: Council, v.rs elected Mayor of Balti-!
| mere over K. Clay Timanus. Repub- j
! lican. the present incumbent, by a '
i majority ci' about 4000.
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Trust Prosecutions La^.
Attorney-General Bonaparte let i
trust prosecutions stagnate, spending !
nearly all his time in Baltimore, and j
when questioned by President Roose-!
veli ^aid he had been ill. i
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?From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
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WRECK OF SHIP IN WHICH EARL * '|j
SOUGHT BURIED COCOS TREASURE < :|
Noble Patron of Gold Hunters and Hi* Wife !l
Narrowly Escape With the Crew ol
the Attiquic?Golden Goddess . J|
With Mantle of Gems
Still Unrescned. :M
New Orleans, La.?Toe Anselm, Jfl
just arrived in port, brought the crew
of the steamer /Attiquin, a private s'|S
vessel belonging to the Earl Fitzwilliam.
The Attiquin was a large vessel,
built after the style pf an auxiliary;
cruiser. She cleared from Bristol,' ^fl
England, stopped at Tampa and Be- *'|jS
lize, British Honduras, which point
she left for a voyage around Cape r'*JB
Horn, her destination being Cocos j
Island, off the west coast of Central v :3|
America, where it was the intention
of the Earl, her owner, to -search far i'M
treasure. N
The vessel was beached and ,3
wrecked off the coast of Honduras
and is a complete loss. \ \
The owner and crew escaned nar- i '.'JS
rawly with their lives. The Earl and
Countess Fitzwilliam went to Belize,
where they were cared for by the
British colonial authorities, while the
crew were sent to New Orleans. They gfaj
will be forwarded from here to New ^
This is the second expedition sent 'M
out by Earl Fitzwilliam within the
past three years to uncover the fabled
treasure on Cocos Island that has H
come to grief. In the latter paH ot'-xIM
1904 the steamer Veronique, which
was chartered for the purpose by . JM
Earl Fitzwilliam, carried the Earl,
Admiral Palliser, retired; of the Brit- ? ;
ish navy; Colonel Carter, of the Qrit- yljB
ish army, and several other friends
of Earl Fitzwilliam to the famonsv^|j9'1
treasure island off the Pacific coast
of Costa Rica.
The Earl stopped at Jamaica and . - -fa
took op. two expert miners and 'six- '-ia
teeh negro laborers, with a mass bf /i'JS
equipment and supplies. The steam- M
er finally got to Cocos after a rough
trip around the Horn. When the -|fl
party got to the island an old German,
who was about the only resident of ^
the place, told the Englishmen that if
they looked in the right place they
could find 6,000,000 pounds of treasure
and a golden statue of a goddess -1|
robed in >a costume of royal gems.
The jGerman said that he guessed the y Wk
statue was buried under a cliff that
overlooked the sea.
The miners prepared to blow up >-.&M
the cliff and get at the statue in that
way, but a premature blast blew the
top of the cliff down on top of them, 'jifl
Those who escaped went to work to
dig out their comrades, assisted by;' ^i||
the Earl. There was a landslide, v||
which buried the Earl and his men 1
in the sand, and gave him a fractured |
skull. A dozen of the men were sent / ..*a
10 the American Hospital at Ancon,
Panama. As soon as the Earl was yM
able to travel he and his friends went
back home.
Earl Fitzwilliam was born In Canada
and was the oldest son of Viscount
Milton, M. P., and Laura,
daughter of Lord Charles Beauclerk. \'-M
He married a daughter of the Mar- &
quis of Zetland. He succeeded his -4$
grandfather?' the sixth Earl Fitzwill- ,t|aB
iara, in 1902. He carried dispatches ,-j|
for the army headquarters staff during
the Boer war, for which he re-,
ceived the Order of Distinguished ' ^>
Merit. He is Master of the Went- ?|fl
worth Hounds and the Wicklow Harriers.
He has vast estates in York- .-s
shire and in County Wicklow, Ire- |j
land, which are said to aggregate ||
115,000 acres, from which he derives ^
au income of more than $500,000 a .
year. He is one of the wealthiest
peers of the empire.
The Cocos treasure is supposed to -J
have got. there in 1820, when there
was a big revolt in Peru and tfie
wealthy citizens at Callao took their
valuables out and buried them on the : ^
islarid. While they were going back i*
to Peru a sloop of war sunk all on >rv
board but two men. The story runs 3!
that these two. men finally got back *>
to the island'and picked up $7500 j
worth of treasure, but on the way "'t
back one of them was eaten by
sharks. The other fitted up a ship ^
at Panama for treasure hunting pur
poses, but was arrested and narrowly
escaped being executed. Then lie
died a natural death. .
"Silent" Smith's Will.
Following the funeral services the |
contents of James Henry Smith's
v.-111 were inaae Known in iui?.
City. His estate is estimated at '
325,000,000, of which the widow re- ^
ceives 52.000,000. Two nephews are
the principal beneficiaries.
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Panic Costly to Florists.
The panic in stocks in March cost
r lie florists of New York City half a
million dollars in lessened sales during
the week before Easter. t ^