Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-11-03

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III q most fascinating
iii A romance Of all
pirate story.
Capt. Frede-
rick Hackett, in
command of the
vessel, claims to be the only man in
all the world who knows the secret Of
the buried treasure of Cocos island
He plans on this expedition to lift the
vast wealth plundered by sea rovers
In the early part of the last century
and hidden ON the island in cave,
the exact location of which has been
lost and for which adyenturers have
sought In vain for many years.
He is equipped with hydraulic min
ing machinery and has sufficient pro-
visions to remain for year Ii nee
essary on the island. which lies 800
miles OF the western coast Of Central
America That q score of former ex-
petitions have proved failures does
not discourage him. The treasure
hunters who have gone before have
depended upon pick and shovel. He
will be the Arst prepared to use
hydraulic mining methods. Earth
quakes. he says, have shaken down
landslides upon the treasure cave and
changed the topography Of the island.
He will wash the earth away with
streams of water powerful enough to
uproot trees and burst rocks asunder.
He Is confident OF success.
when l return to the United
States" says Captain Haokett, Il shall
have the entire Cocos island treasure
battened down beneath the matches OF
the Hesperus."
The story Of Coeos island makes
Robert Louis Stsvenson's Treasure
Island" seem true In comparison, SO
much stranger are the facts of this
real romance Of buried treasure than
the Observation-Disclosures, highly colored
ton of the novelist. The marvellous
tsie has it's beginning in the days
when savage buccaneers, flying skull
and-erossbones at their mast-hsads,
haTried the Spanish main and plum
dered tall galleons ON the high seas.
It fairly glitters from beginning to
end with a fairy wealth Of doubloons,
pieces-of-eight, louis d'ors, moidores,
seauins and double guineas. In its
crowded episodes, blind-folded victims
walk the plank, bronzed and turbaned
cutthroats swarm over the bulwarks
OF captured SHIPS and lay about them
with cutlass and dragoon pistol, sea
rogues are strung up at yard-arms,
towns are sacked and looted, vessels
are left to welter to their ruin IN fame
and smoke. II centers about lonely
island, palm-shadowed In tropdc seas,
whereon lies buried treasure beyond
the dreams of Monte CItsto. 1t rings
with the clash of battle on the Island
beaches and with the death cries OF the
men murdered that they might never
hetYay the treasures secret hiding
place. Finally it hands down from the
far-oH time of romance to prosalc
modern days a great golden mystery
which, like a siren reckoning through
the years from purple southern SEAS
has lured men to ruin and death.
According to well-authenticated &C
counts, 5000, 900 In pirate treasure
is buried on Cooos island OF this sum
$4,000. 900 in money, bullion ana
plate Is supposed to have been hidden
In 1921 by Benito Bonfto. the last OF
the great pirates who, even after La
ftte had passed away, kept alive upon
che ocean the lawless traditions or
L'Ollancis. Pierre LIE Grand, Roche
Brastaiano. ENGLAND, Hawkins and SIR
Henry Morgan.
The remaining $11,o00,00o is said
to have been concealed in the same
cave in 1898 by Bugs" Thompson
one of Bonito's old pirate crew, VINO
sailed away with the treasure from
the harbor of Callao when the gov
eminent authorities OF Peru entrusted
1t aboard his vessel to save 1t from
capture by revolutionists 1t consisted
Of money from the public treasury, IN
COTS OF gold from Inca mines, piate'
ehalices, ornaments and golden stat
ues belonging TO the churches and ca
thedrals Of Lima.
Captain Hackett is fourth In VIVA.
may be christened the royal line Oh
the holders of the golden secret OF
Cocos island. This secret has peen
bo,5o5 DOWN IN a sort OF Hneal de-
scent from Thompson The former
ocean freebooter for years carried
about chart Of Cocos island drawn
upon a piece of yellow parchment
showing tho exact location OF the cave
Ia which his own and Bonito's treas
ure hoard il hidden. He gave THIS
chart In a Alderman Of st. Johns