The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
AFTER SPANISH GOLD.
To Renew the Search for Pirates
Treasure.

ida, Near Pensacola-Fate Inter-
rupted a Search-Efforts to Form a
Syndicate Of Moneyed Men to Renew
the Invsstigation-Capi Needed.
From the New York Advertiser.
st. Louis, Aug. 4.-From the early
Spanish and later French settlers of this
section, there has descended a love of the
romantic, and in no part of the country
are traditions so jealousy preserved. The
OLD St. Louisan firmly believes in all the
strange and wonderful tales of the mill
ions in treasure secured by the pirates of
the Spanish main and the Mexican gulf,
and the enterprising gentleman now in
the city, seeking to enlist a syndicate of
members of the Merchants Exchange in
an enterprise that contemplates the re
covery of s., 900, 900 in pirate spoils buried
somewhere on the coast of Florida, near
Pensacola, have brought their eggs to the
right market
Certain gentlemen living at Little
Rock, Ark, claim to know where this
treasure is located. To prosecute the
search successfully is, according to these
gentlemen, a work of engineering that
will require capital of $4,000 to $40, 900.
On previous occasion the Little Rock
people endeavored to induce the .Mer-
chants Exchange TO formally engage in
the search for the buried millions, and
the proposition had many supporters, but
a legal opinion from the counselor of the
exchange prohibited an appropriation.
knowledge of the existence of the treas
ure is not confined to the Little Rock par
ties. Secretary Morgan of the exchange
has in his possession a letter from Charles
i. Lewis of Ennis, Tex, secretary of the
Texas Dental Association, in which
he.says The, Little Rock party knows
nothing about the buried treasure on the
Florida coast near Pensacola, except
what my father told him. My father was
the. late Gen. L. NJ. Lewis of Missouri
We lived in Little Rock for twelve years.
You can find plenty of St. Louis people
who knew L. Nj. Lewis. He was the pas
tor of the First Methodist church when
it was located at Eighth and Washington
avenues. / have the only paper in regard
10 the buried wealth, and know the his
tory of it. My father believed the wealth
to, be where the party told him it was
II is in Spanish gold and silver brick
with the Spanish mark on them. Only
three men had anything to do with the
wealth.
If J. H. McLaine or Leo Baker are liv-
ing they can tell you something, for |
think they will remember hearing my
father recounting of how he came to OBJ
tain the secret
The renewal of interest in the search
for the treasure said TO have been buried
by the four survivors after the wreck of
the ship La Mort has been intensified by
the receipt of letter from Gapt,t c.
Peterson of Pensacola, Fla. The appa-
ratns the captain mentions as being used
by the man button is not new to this sec
ton. Electric finders as they are
called, have been In use in the iron lead
and zinc sections of the state for sew
in, bal tfnY, 49, l.,
and your correspondent has seen the
instrument described used in the loca-
ton OF SubterraneouS water courses with
most surprising results. A graduate of
the Washington University has grown
rich within a few years locating water for
Carter, the artesian well contractor This
Student has always claimed that metal of
any kind can be located by holding in the
hands at the opposite emo TO the pendant
bob of a small disk of the metal sought
for. Implicit faith is put in the finder
in Southwest Missouri zinc and lead
fields The Finder gives no indication
as to the depth at which the mineral or
water may be found, or whether the guam
tiGy be great or small.
Capt. Peterson's letter is addressed to
Secretary Morgan and is on the letter.
head of u. G. Peterson < Co., Ship Brok-
ers and Contracting Stevedores, Peusa-
cola, Fla under date Of July %.
Ia INK nCdiu NOuI udiuG 4ilEuIlOu6Q III
connection with hunt for a buried treas
ure on the coast of Florida I concluded
to write you and relate facts and cirCum-
stances connected with my own self and
on my own PROPERTY, so tha:if you or any
of your own friends feel like entering into
this scheme of mine well and good will
lay the matter before you III all its details
and can furnish undoubted proof of every
thing that | state
81 live on and own about twenty acres
of land situated two miles west of Pensa-
cola, within the city limits, at place
known as Bayou Chico, or Little Bayou
1t Is an arm of Pensacola bay, three miles
long by one-haf to three-quarters of
mile wide-deep tide, salt water, a very
beautiful spot. live at the mouth or en-
trance, about 800 yards from Pensacola
bay proper
About six years ago a gentlemen by
the name of Dutton moved from Topeka,
Kas., to DeFuniak Springs, eighty miles
east of Pensacola, on the Pensacola and
Atlantic railroad. That gentleman bought
an interest in a large hotel at Detuniak
Springs. | had cottage up there during
the assembly, and my family became ac-
qIainted with the buttons. Mr.. Dutton
came down to my place on Bayou Chico
and said he wanted TO pick out lot to
build hotel thinking il would pay to
nave a public establishment near salt
water. One day | took him in boat and
rowed abouta mile from my house. where
we went ashore at a place called
Emma's Point. After getting away
from the beach Mr.. Dutton took
out a small instrument much
like plumb bob, about two inches long
and four inches in circumference, covered
with thin leather and suspended by
sllken cord about two feet long. He
placed his hand on a stump and let this
bob hang between his thumb and fore
finger at the same time holding it on the
edge Of the stump, He asked me TO see
in what direction il swung, for it was
plainly moving forward ana backward
like the pendulum of a clock. After
watching it awhileI told him. Mr.. Dut-
ton then moved in the direction the pen
dulum had swung, which brought us to a
low land back of my house, which is all
but a swamp. Mr.. Dutton did not talk
much, only once IN awhile he would STOP
and get his course from that little in
strument of his. Finally we reached the
swamp, Mr. ID. stopped near a small
creek, and the instrument was placed in
POSITION. This time, instead Of swinging
backward and forward, as it mad before,
IL turned in a sweeping circle. Mr. D.
marked the spot. II was an open space
OF ground formed in a sort OF triangle
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