The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24
PEARLS BY THE CAR LOAD.
4 DAZZLING TALE OF WEALTH
TOLD BY Old PETER JORDAN.

TOLD BY Old PETER JORDAN.
The Aged ProspectOr Has Gone for n
Wagon Load or Two-They Are
Real India Pearls. We Are Assur-
ed-A Pretty story From the WIIds
of Western Kansas.
From the Kansas City World.
There is a man living i'm ST. Joseph who,
having "A reasonable competence and be-
ing one of the oldest settlers In the west
ern country. spends his winters there in
modest though comfortable home, and
with the advent Of spring starts regularly
on a prospecting tour that takes him to
the mountains and only ends when the
snow flies. He has just embarked in a
prairie schooner on his annual voyage
across what was, in preadamiuc days. the
bed of a great interior sea, but is now
commonly known as the treeless pains
of the trans-Nissouri region II his quest
shall prove successful. his story viii sur
pass those related by Sindbad the Sailor,
while mis- fortune viii exceed that of the
Count of Monte Cristo.
That his expectations have a substan-
tial basis he is prepared to prove to the
satisfaction of the most skeptical of men.
He makes no boast of his discovery, but
regards it as but the reward due to dill
gent research covering a period of two
score years in a portion of the world
whose resources, while they have attracted
the attention and excited the admiration
of all the nations of earth long years ago,
he believes are even to this day comDara-
lively unknown and their developments
scarcely begun. This man, whose name
is Peter Jordan, and whose home is To-
Gated near the sight of the trading post
established in the Biacksnake Hills by
Louis RobidouX, who was sainted when
the city that now bears his name had
grown beyond the period of its swaddling
clothes, prior to his departure this week
for the foothills and the divide ia Eastern
Colorado revealed to a few friends his
destination and the object of his journey
this year. lie produced evidence that he
was on no Wild goose chase, though it was
not pDft OF his policy to give the exact
LATITUDE and longitude at which he eX-
pected to cast anchor and load his bark
with treasure trOVc.
AT the outset he exhibited a two-ounce
vial, in which was seen to be a white
moth of extraordinary size and beauty.
Extracting the lovely creature from its
prisGn in which ii had been Theoretically
sealed, its snowy coat was brushed away
ike the dust OF a tomb. and the body,
dry as a mummy, was broken in two
ThereupOn out rolled a dozen pearls, none
larger than ordinary bird shot, but each
perfect in form and luSter, and such IS
to be of commercial value in any market
on the two hemispheres. He then brought
| forth a second tiny bottle half filled with
the same dainty treasures, but of greater
size. There was no mistaking the charac-
ter Of these pellet-like objects. They
We're pearls than which none lovelier were
ever brought up by divers from the bot
tom of the oriental seas
Accompanying Jordan when he displav-
ed the white moth and his vial of pearls
TO his friends was the senior member CT
the most reliable jewelry establishment,
] q O. Of loo ar,4,
mans request, first told the following
story; In october last a woman evi-
IDENTIFY in moderate circumstances, came
10 our store on Edmond street, and show
ing me a pearl about the size of a French
pea, asked me what we would give for t..
scarcely knew what to say, and while
hesltated she said she would like TO
exchange IL for a plain gold ring The
/ offer of g ring for the pearl was quick
" accepted, and the gem at once passed
| INTO my possession.
Upon asking her for the history of IN.
| pretty oauole, she said that she had spent
| me summer in a tour through Western
Kansas, ana one day, while walking along
| the toot of bluff sidrting the dry he'd oP
/ an old river, she had seen something shin
| lhS IN the sand, and, thinking it was :,
/ petole, haQ Kicked ii out with her foo.
/ picked 1t up and afterward brought !,
/ nome with her. l mounted that gem in
/ lhe very hnest style. and placed il in
snow ease alongside OF diamond emer-
/ aid and opal rings of much greater y-sii7a
/ anu marked the price down to $50 wbicb
3It Httle more than paid for the setting,
/ w men customers came in and admired ~,
/ ring and would have become purcbasers
/ told the story of the discovery as !,
| had been given to me, thinking to Give II
! something more than its intrinsic valns
But, no sir, nobody would buv a STONE
1 PtSheu up on the plains, and selected
/ other rings less valuable i'm nrsferenc'
! rlidlIS, Ured OUT OF answering questi
/ ana seeing the lack of appreciation on
~ az Pa oI customers, took the pearl
our OF us setting and sent il TO Tiffap,,
! IN rev days l received a check for az
/ Tor II, and / am now satisfied that IL w. 80
reset ana sold for more than twice the
! Jordan here took up the thread of tbo
romance. lie SAID that after prospecting
/ ior years in the Rockies he had made mn
r NE Hiillo 70 spend me spring of 1885 on the
| PLd.IiSs Tor the sake of enjoying their
/ beauty all that season and nroSsadin1
/ eastward az his leisure. He was accoro
/ panl9q py ms wife; the woman who after
! WARD bartered with the jeWeler and unon
! reaching point rather well IN in me
! 1901 mus they Went into camp. determined
/ 70 rest Tor a week or two, being amD.v
! prov 6roris'o3 3n for such a lay
I lying donw in his wagon sm wfs
/ ms his pipe, and reading by the Ugbt NJ
! a lantern, a large white moth flew In un-
/ DER me canvas. 1t was so pretty that he
/ caught IL and placed it beneath a giasS
! sugar bowl where he and his Wife con-
I Lhued 10 admire II for several davs and
| l nbg aIter lts death. At length he, being
ap9uI 20 move on; took the moth from
! under tnS glass and was about to throw il
| away, When the creature crumbled in his
f5dTa no ana to- to-. his astonishnAent
alis dozen of these pearls, He
! could not account for an adventure so
/ COSBY resembling those chronicled i'm
! Arao-an NIGHTS, but resolved to tarry a
| nttle longer For some reason he did nor
| MENTION the circumstances to his wife
On the following night a half dozen of