The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-09
VS., CRUISER
CAPTAIN BROWN AND CAPTAIN
ROSEHILL.
Both Are Being Headed Off'-Rosehill
By Japan and Brown by Costa Rica-
The Race For Treasure.

San Francisco will not believe that
Captain James Brown and the yacht
schooner Herman are simply on
cruise for pleasure and health. In spite
of Captain Browns reiterated state
ments to this effect and in spite of the
fact that he is here, the San Francisco
people will have that he is after the
far-famed Cocos Island treasure, and
that a Costa RiCan gunboat is on it's
way to Cocos Island to head him off.
In short according to San Francisco,
Captain Brown is in much the same po-
sition as our own Captain Rosehill, now
nearing Marcus Island with his Mauser
armed schooner and his Instructions
from Col. Fitch's Board of Strategy.
What San Francisco thinks is thus
shown:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-The
Chronicle says:
WANTED-Twenty men with 5000 each
for years cruise, including four
months sea voyage, with prospect of
big returns. Inquire room 445, Par
rot building.
The above advertisement appeared in
the Chronicle" Sunday. At first sight
the proposition suggesta a whaling trip.
Inquiry yesterday, however, showed
that another and very carefully organ
!
ure of COcos island Is on foot in this
/ city. Cocos is an island twenty-six
miles in extent, 300 miles off the coast
of Costa Rica.
August Gissler, Lieutenant Governor
of Cocos, for Costa Rica has been here
some time arranging the preliminaries.
! But he will have to depart suddenly
! and leave the working out of the pro-
! ject in the hands of a company. Act
| ing on information he received Sunday
night, he was present at Howard-street
! wharf NO. 2, when the little schooner
/ Herman left for parts unknown. Cap
tain Brown wheE questioned, said he
was bound for an island in the Pacific,
where the Japanese had buried treas
ure. A roseate but misleading story to
that effect appeared in a morning pa
per next day. The Herman had Bos-
| ton expedition of fifteen men all told,
fitted out at a cost of $4,000, and was
bound for the island of Cocos. Captain
Brown, so the story goes, has charts
which will direct him very near the
spot where the treasure is buried
Lieutenant-G Governor Gissler will sail
by the Para Monday for home, secure
a gunboat from his Government, and
with her proceed to head off the
Herman. viii a battle be fought in
] NlbplCdl "GleIS as d INSull GlSSleI mas
a concession for 10C years from the
Costa Rican Government, giving him
sole permission to develop the island
and hnd the treasure. He mas been
retlcent about his mission sine. he
came to this city, and could only be in
Guced to talk about it momentarily
yesterday. Il will have to leave by the
Para on the 29th," he said, land will Sc
cure a guntoat from my Government to
head off the Herman expedition, which
left here Sunday. l am asking 5000
each from those who join our expedl-
ton, which is to pay for hydraulic ma
Chinery. We have to divert the course
of a small river. l can say that l have
recovered some of the treasure already,
and it only requires machinery to get
at the rest. l should prefer that those
going with us BE- seamen and have
some knowledge Of mining and machin.
cry. / refer !uu 10 Captain Ross, who
is president of the COcOs Island I'M
provement Company, and viii have
charge of the work of organizing the
expedition mere. II the Herman people
are allowed to land and remain there
they will shoot my cattle for food |