Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-24
WIDOW ANDRAE ID INVADE
 TIBURON
nQueen of the Golden lslen Is Making Ready For Expedi- ton In Search of the Fabul- ouS Wealth.

ethnologist in the world, who has Nls- ited Tiburon Island. has flatly de- nied all the stories of fierce tribes men which have come from the isl and, William Mackey-Caldwell, sol dIer of fortune, has Just returned from there with the most glowing ac- counts of the riches of the rocky islet. says a Los Angeles paper.
 On his word of the fiereeness of the savages which inhabit the island and the vast deposits of gold and cop per which 1t contains, Senora Guada- lupe Andrade Blinn, beautiful heiress- queen of the golden Island of Tibu- ron, in the Gulf of California is about to send a little army to conquer the savages of her insular realm.
 One handred armed men under the command of Mackey-Caldwell, are to leave San Diego at an early date for the island. There they will try, he says, to force landing from the Seri Indians. last descendants of the Az tees, who now hold the rocky islet, of gold and copper Mackey-Caldwell declares the island contains.
 Twelve miles out from Guaymas, in the Gulf of Baja California. lies the mystery-haunted isle. It is a rocky and sterile mountain peak, rising from the waters of a rough and often stormy sea It is practically un- known though the bones Of many ad- yenturers are said by the soldier of fortune to whiten it's forbidding coast, and in the stories of those who have returned from expeditions to it turks always the lure of the yellow metal.
 Mackey- Caldwell. veteran of three campaigns in the Soudan and of other battles, as we'll as the author of many books of adventure, is willing to talk of Tiburon and it's people
 Years ago, Guillermo Andrade, later Mexican consul to Los Angeles, T said the soldier of fortune, Ted an expedition into Tiburon. Andrade and a mere handful of the men who followed him across the waters of the gulf returned. The remainder ot the party fed the cannibals of Tiburon or were lost in the arm of the sea that gashes far into the continent.
 But by this trip, and by grants from the government which he repre- sented, the brave Senor Andrade Nz4A14C lhNO POoSCSoiOA Ol llAS AcAcitll and all it's fabled riches. Yet, like the pot of gold at the rainbow's end the wealth of Tiburon lay ever just l beyond his grasp. He knew, of his own sight, the treasure of Tiburon of his own experience he knew, too the dangers that beset it, the savage " of the death-defying Seris who guard it. and the opportunity to re turn and wrest glittering metal from the remnant of tribesmen never came to him. He died ere he could gather together a sufficiently daring body of men to invade the home of the cannibals.
 Now, his beautiful widow styled l the Queen of the Golden Isle of ri buron,' because she is one of the six undisputed heirs to the treasure she has never seen, is planning to finance an expedition into the islet where heI former husband all but lost his life Five thousand Seris are supposed to inhabit Tiburon. Possessed of but few firearms, yet provided with poi soned arrows, powerful bows and spears which they can throw with deadly accuracy; fearless of death, 1 and with but one object-to protect their island and their gold from all inYaders-they have so Tar succeed ed, not only in repelling all forces which have -heen sent against Tihn. ron. but staying hundreds of soldiers of fortune who have landed on their shores.
 The island is believed to be com. posed almost entirely of rich gold ore, how rich no one knows unless il be Guillermo Andrade, and in his life he did not spread his knowledge of the mysterious island to the four winds"
 But Dr. J. McGee of the govern. ment's force of organized scientists ethnologist of world wide note, has quite another story to tell of the peo- pie of Tiburon and of its richness. or rather of its poverty in the precious metals.
 With a small party, six or seven men, McGee visited TiburCn Island and from that visit has written a re. port which goes into detail concern ing the Seri. Where Mackey-Cald well claims there are 5000 Indians McGee saw only a few more than 100 in other words, the rowing eye of the soldier of fortune saw greater hordes than did the trained observers who are paid for what they know of the wild tribes Of the earth.
 McGee puts very low value on the riches of the island. Barren and ster. ile he admits it is; so does Mackey. Caldwell, but as for great ledges of gold and copper, or even a small placer, Dr. McGee and his men could find none. Nor in the camps of the poor, frightened 'eannibais,' from which the Seris fled at the approach of this handful of whitemen, did they i find any ornaments of the precious metals.
 Instead they Found the most crude weapons known to any Indian tribe ia North America. They found tia; the people lived practically without shelter in summer and in the rudesi of brush houses in winter; that the greater part of their food consists of shellfish and small animals which they kin only with the greatest labor Of arts and crafts, McGee declares they have none, save possibly crude dishes made from shells, or hoilowed with infinite labor from stones. Oc casionally, the men of the Seris ap pear on the mainland and do a little work on the ranches of the Sonora desert and far from being brave to blood-thirstiness, the scientists of the government found them an humble even a cowardly people desertine even their homes at the approach of strangers.