The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
HIS BURIED FORTUNE.
TWO AMERICANS AID IN THE RECOVERY OF HIDDEN
TREASURE AND MAKE OVER $4,000 APIECE.

ronade which had been lying in "A ware
house for two OF three years. With IL
we got a carriage n ammunition, n
by the time the gun was aboard the brig
was watercd and provisioned and ready
to sail. Her clearance papers were for
Manila, in ballast, and the day of our
sailing Captain Wheaton brought on
board a short, squatty, bescarred white
man, who had just been turned out of jail,
and who proved TO be an English "cut-
sticks from IL. NJ. 5. The Tempest. IL
turned out To he the luckiest thing in the
world that we found him., for he knew
how to manage oar carronade and made
il keep us out of an ugly scrape.
IL was only after we were out of sight of
the Chinese coast that Semyo gave MS the
exact location of his treasure cache. We
were TO round the Bashee islands, lying
oil the north coast of Luzon, and strike
the coast at a river called the Batanen,
after another sland. -Four miles up this
river, which is ~navigable for ~ miles. was
the cache. We had a run of $50 miles
across the China sea to the Bashees, and
and along this north coast We found sew
eral traders. In order To appear all right
i'm ease we were boarded by any Spanish
vessels in those days We laid in some
cargo here and took our time about sail
ing to the river.
After we had passed the Babuyan stands
and laid our course to the south we caught
sight one day at noon OF q felucca APP
preaching us from the east, having
rounded the cape. She hew the Spanish
flag and Semyo said that she belonged to
the coast service. She had the right to
board us and examine our papers,, and,
while we had no fear of her on our own
account, il was probable Semyo would be
recognized the ome they set eyes on
him. We had our plans laid before she
fired a gun as a signal TO us 10 heave-to.
Semyo was hidden in the forepeak, and
we burned sulphur in the forecastle be-
hind him. BY leaving the scuttle open
the fumes were drawn away from the fugi-
tive, and could be scented all over the brig.
We hove-to at the order of the f%elucca,
aud were presently boarded by a Spanish
lieutenant. He was a very poinpous chap,
and il was probably his intention to do a
great deal of bossing around, but as he
came over the rail "A current OF air car
ried him the smell of sulphur, II be ex-
claimed:
Good Lord, but is your brig on fire in
the f%orecastle
II was explained 20 him tina we bad lost
n man of some malignant hut unknown
disease, and were fumigating the brig.
Two or three of US were feeling badly, but
hoped To escape the disease by steaming
i'm the vapor. We were "a trader, and Of
fered To open the matches and show our
papers, but he was In q hurry. He
didn't even notice our carronade, but
backed To the rail and descended TO his
boat, saying:
"Oh, you are doubtless all right, and l
hope you will lose no more men. As for
me, the service does not demand that i
run the risks Of epidemic"
Two days after we came TO anchor in
sss river ' fBe bank a sp Of ,h pe's stream o", w Sy
rough and broken. but thickly Wooded.
Forty rods inland was a highway running
parallel with the stream but ii was
hidden from us. On the far side Of
the highway was the ruin of an old
church and in this ruin was the treas
ure cache. As many boats were pass
ing up and down ii was prudent that we
resort to deception To prevent suspicion.
We got down "a topgallantmast, Stacked
away some of the rigging, got q stage over
the side for the carpenter, and appeared
TO be lying there for the sole purpose OF
making repairs. We were soon boarded
by natives anxious to furnish cargo and
ON the second day n government gunboat
passed us without IN to take u
interest in u case. Semyo had To lie
concealed in the hold during daylight, as
men were coming aboard who knew him
we'll, and il was about midnight on the
second night after our arrival that we
pulled ashore tor the treasurt-that is. two
men pulled Semyo off TO the bank to see
IL il was all right. and il did not take him
many minutes To make a disagreeable
discovery. A rarty Of w~oodcutters had
encamped close To the ruin with
every indication of a long stay. Semyo
was positive that lac could not get at the
cache without being discovered. as the
party had two or three dogs in camp. and
he was sharply challenged as he secuted
around.
Next day. after some conspiring on our
part, the captain and l went ashore To the
camp to make a bold move. There was a
gang of thirty natives under a Spanish
boss cutting ebony, n they had a large
lot already for shipment. This gang had
been sent from the province of Iebu.
where the owner Of the tract resided and
an agent was daily expected to sell the
output. The boss we found TO be an ig-
noraut. ~good-natured fellow who could
neither read nor.write. While ! claimed
20 he the real owner Of the lam on which
they were then AT work. the captain of
fercd To buy some of the logs on the sly.
Between us We got him To remove his
camp a mile away and To accept so for
logs. We not only accomplished this during
the day but showed our friendship and
good will by sending a keg OF whiskey 10
the camp, and by night the boss and hs
gang were as drunk as lords. As soon "a
! il was dark four of W. pulled ashore will