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Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

runs MS E-M-f " OoNn 10 lsS mann
line siding, bitches a rope to the freight
car he wants and whisks It TO the spot
where Il Is wanted
During the heavy hlizzard Thursday aft
ernoon Guy u Smith WAS right on the
sob" with his automobiles Mr.. Smith.
himself. IN tine Franklin Little Six, and
Craig In the Hudson ~ plowed through
the snow as they demonstrated TO their
prospects that the weather man held no
terrors for them.
Z L. Keller. manager OF the stude-
baker vehicle department in Minneapolis.
visited With his brother. I4~keiser;~ man.
aver of the Omaha studebaker branch.
last week.
]. 4. sypoi OF Brafnard. Neb., was
visitor at the salesroom Of the stude-
baker corporation last week.
W. u Harvey OF Newman. Neb.. visited
with Manager Keller OF the Omaha
branch of the studebaker corporation last
week.
C. wooiey Of the Regal factory at De-
trolt stopped at the Omaha branch last
week.
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The Rambler company Is getting out an
original idea in the way OF guarantee
Of Rambler cars. The company guaran-
tees all cars for a distance of io.oee miles.
This means that the car will go across
the United States three times or they
will have TO stand good for the car. Man
ager Glltner OF the Omaha branch says
that he is sure the company win not
have to stand loss on any car. as he is
confident that all Rambler cars are capa-
BILE Of covering this distance without
harming any OF Its working parts.
C. K. Giltner left last Thursday for the
Rambler factories. lie expects TO be
gone week. "a
While the snow OF the last few weeks
Is Godsend to the farmers the dealers
along auto. row are inclined to look at Il
from the opposite point Of view.
On a wager Guy l.. smith last Thurs
day evening demonstrated the absolute
reliability OF the self-starter on the Hud-
son -" The car was left out on tho
sidewalk until the water was cold. lie
then operated the self-starter twenty-five
times without single miss.
The following telegram was received
last week by Manager Keller OF the local
branch Of the studebaker corporation.
showing the power and durability Of the
EMF cars:
MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 10. 1872.
The Alabama Automobile association's
big meet closed here today with the run
ming Of tho 1900 fifty-mile free--for-all.
The event was won by odom In an EMF
% with Cohn. also in an EMF 10
in the third position odom led from the
start. His time was S2:S1.2, the fastest OF
the meeting. A horsepower Buick.
Odds. Autocrat stutr Overland and other
ears were unsuccessful contenders for the
big prize" 1853
Tom Bromwell. sales manager for the
II. II Frederickson Automobile company.
returned Thursday from three weeks
trip through the stale In Hpite ef the
snow, he says. the dealers IN the terri
tory are doing a large business and he
thinks that this year viii be ens ~ the
largest the automobile dealers have eyer
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

The II. f. Fredrlclssou Automobile
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17


l.. A. Mckay, western sales manager
for the Franklin Automobile company.
spent one day last week with Guy L..
Smith, Mr.. Mckay says that Nebraska
is now the center OF automobile pros
perity and that the Franklin company, is
well pleased with The regularity with
which Guy L. Smith is sending In orders.
Guy Ia Hipwell. who has charge OF the
northern territory for the Powell Supply
company. who has been III for several
days. Is much improved. and 1t Is ey-
pected that he viii be able 10 take charge
OF his duties in short time, as &
The Powell Supply company is very
busy fllling orders for shop equipment.
This Is the only line that there is any
demand for now. although orders for
other equipments are heavy for future
delivery.
The American Automobile Insurance
company Of 81. Louis has Just been ad-
mltted TO do business In this state. This
company Is unique in that II is the only
company in the country writing all kinds
of insurance on automobiles. Harry :.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17
The Zenith in Tires
The Hookless Tires

thousands Of users have proved
that.
Yet these patent tires now
cost no more than other stand.
ard tires.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

During the heavy blizzard Thursday aft
ernoon Guy T. Smith was right on the
Job" with his automobiles. Mr.. Smith.
himself in tine Franklin Little Six, and
Craig in the Hudson ~ plowed through
the snow as they demonstrated TO their
prospects that the weather man held no
terrors for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

company unioaded 1--WE carloads of Chal-
mers 80 last week.
The new torpedo Chalmers roadster
- will arrive at the salesrooms Of the
II. E. Fredrickson Automobile company
this week. The car Is we'll made and Is
beautifully decorated.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

When the Salmon Bay Sand and Gravel
company OF Ballard. Wash, near Seat
tie. Is In a hurry 10 load a twenty-ton
freight car at one OF Its bunkers. II
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

per cent 10 the
tire mileage.
This oversize
feature, plus the
No-Rim- Cut
feature, cuts
tire upkecp In
two. Tens OF
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

On a wager Guy l.. smith last Thurs
day evening demonstrated the absolute
reliability OF the self-starter on the Hud-
son -" The car was left out on the
sidewalk until the water was cold. He
then operated the self-starter twenty-five
times without single miss.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

While the snow OF the last few weeks
Is Godsend to the farmers the dealers
along auto. row are inclined. to. look at Il
from the opposite point Of view.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

C. wooiey OF the Regal factory at De-
troit stopped ut the Omaha branch last
week.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

Z Z. Keller, manager Of the sude-
baker vehicle department in Minneapolis.
visited With his brother. IL~kefer,~ man.
ager OF the Omaha studebaker branch.
last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
Building John Bulls New Blue Book
 Factory

but who occasionally contrive to fur n.s1l a worla-sensa 1ion, as did Sir Roger Easement with his account of the mis- doin6s of he rubber companies at Put Lnayo. Even blue books ike these, nos.estr, couSned as they are, in prosy, official language ttor there are Few styIlsls ana Aewer humor4sts fn the ser sice or the BrI.Ish governinent), make fairly stiff reading. and for every DIuc oook of this kind there are 5JO that are the absolute limit of dryness- Gov ernment reports, of course, are not sap posed 10 furnish light literature. but British ones hold the worlds record for ponderosity and have any other known scporlfc beaten hollow.
 The subjects they cover range from foreign relations to flies dhese latter !n their capacity as disease carriers), and there are blue books on boiler explosions. on beetles (of the Colorado yarieLy). and on the disease of lilac trees. Blue books, Of course, can be bought by anybody who has the strange taste to want to read them. the lowest price for a single copy being one cent. or a halfpenny in Eng fish money The most expensive blue book ever issued will cost you $515 If you are to invest in 1t. It gives complete account of the round-the-world voyage or H. NJ. s. Challenger which began in 1872 ard ended in 1876. A lot of leading lights of the world of science were on board and the mighty deep and its denizens and veg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
Thousand Tons Of Blue Books May Bury Their Makers

ute and careful study. When the voyage was over. scientists of many nations, ln- cluding Ernest Haecke the famous au- thor of The Riddle of the Universe" Were asked to write on the results of tho expedition, and their articles are includ- ed in the biggest of all blue books, which is published in 50 parts, finely illustrated with colored prints. The price of 1t prob ably will remain a record Generally speaking, the top price for blue book is 30 shillings or about $750
 On an average 5000 blue books arc pub lished every year, most of them having been asked for by members of the house of parliament. That is the usual genesis of blue book. When one of the mem bers of the house of commons has fan cy to know what any particular depart ment of his majesty's government is up to, he asks to have a report of it's aotivi- ties laid on the table of the house. Then 1t is the business of the chief of the said department to prepare a report which, after the house has discussed 1t, generally is ordered to be printed. When 1t is in cold type, it is called "blue book . though 1t may lack the customary azure binding and be, officially, either a white paper" or a red book. All acts of paria- ment are published in blue book form. Certain government departments like the admiralty and the war office issue their reports as "blue books" automatically. and a few records such cs the reports Of military operations are presented to both
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
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If treasures are found at old Panama 1t is not improbable that jewels and pearls may be found among them. The waters adjoining Panama and other parts of Central America have long been noted for their magnificent pearls. Some of those in the crown of Spain came from here, and in the cathedrals in Seville and Toledo are strings and clusters of pearls which the early explorers took from the Indians. Columbus met natives wearing ropes of pearls while he was in this part of the world, and he took one pearl weighing 300 grains home to the queen. Cortez found black pearls which came from the waters of Lower California, while Ferdinand De Sota Is said to have robbed one of the Indian queens of t great string of fine pearls.
 There are pearl fisheries just outside [ Panama bay and the diving is going on now. 1 find pearls for sale here in Punta Arenas and the walters at the hotel ta- bles will unite knots fin their handker- chiefs and ask you to buy them between bites. Some of the pearls are only seeds, but others are as big as a pea. In the stores you will see little bottles of pearls which can be bought by the lot for all sorts of prices, but as rule the pearls are either very small or not perfectly round. I was told that one was taken out few years ago which weighed 0O karats and l have heard of another which a 12-year-old boy found in an oys- ter and sold for s4000. It was taken to Panama and there sold to q banker and in time 1t reached Paris. where it was valued at S10,OO0 Not long ago some pearls were found near our canal sani- tarlum on Taboga island. and one of them brought 5000.
 The most of the pearls, however, come from the Pearl islands, which lie on the west side of Panama bay, about 90 miles from the islands on which we are now building the notifications which com mand the western end of the Panama canal. There are 16 of these islands, the most of them small. They are populated chiefly by the Indians. who are engaged in pearl diving. The men use diving suits and they bring up the pearl oysters In the shell. After the shells are on board the boats they are opened and the oys-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

cases they come from these grave mounds of the past.
 Some of the lakes of the Central Ameri- can highlands are said to contain treas- ures put there by the Indians at the time they were persecuted by the Spanlards. There Is one on the top of a mountain in Columbia, not far from Panama. out of which Images like those have described have been taken. The most of them have been found near the shore and it is said that party of Englishmen are now planning to drain the lake and mine tho bed for the treasures. They are making a tunnel to let off the water.
 heard of similar treasure hoards in this same region of South American There is one in Ecuador said to contain tho treasures of the Incas, and another in Peru where 1t is claimed that something like 900 worth of gold was thrown at the time Pizarro broke faith with Ata- huapa and caused his death.
 You may remember part of tho story. Pizarro had conquered Peru and was taking away the silver by the shipload. That metal was so common that the Spaniards had their horses shod with it. It was at this time that Pizarro, the Spanish general. had captured the Inca king Atahualpa. who was also a sort of prophet and high priest of the people. He offered to ransom the latter If the Indians would fill the room in which the king was imprisoned with gold.
 The room was seventeen feet wide, twenty feet long and nine feet high. The gold was brought in in great quantities. It comprised gold plates torn from the Temple of the Sun at Cuzco and cases wonderfully carved, immense gold basins and hundreds of drinking cups and dishes of various kinds. There was so much of it that it took the Indian goldsmith a whole month, working day and night, to cast 1t into ingots, and so much that 1t filled the room. as Pizarro demanded After Pizarro got the gold he treacher- ously killed the king, and lt is said that the Indians then gathered together such gold as they had left and buried 1t in that unknown lake
 There are said to be gold hoards at the bottom of Lake Titicaca. but that can never be drained There are other gold hoards in the nitrate fields farther south, and indeed no one knows just where the greatest treasures of the past He. If Is very probable that there Is some on the Isthmus of Panama, and the excavation of old Panama City, which Is about to begin when the new road there is completed, will unearth some which were hidden at the time that Morgan took and destroyed the city. Morgan is said to have taken away 175 horse loads of Jewels, silver and gold, and he tortured the peo- pie to make them confess where the money was hidden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
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same way. Well, the Colorado mans charm did not work in Cocos. l don't know what was the matter. He went there, but claimed he had not fair trial.
 Another set of treasure hunters came here about five years ago from England. I was at Panama at the time their boat was in the harbor. That expedition was headed by Earl Fftzwiliiam, who is said to have an income of s1,O0o.000 a year and to own 10000 acres of land in Ireland. He had bought a yacht named the Xe- ronique, and had come out with Admiral Palliser, who at one time was the com mander of the British fleet on the Pa cifc The admiral had been sent to Cocos by the government some years before to investigate the claims of a man named Hartford. an Englishman. who had a concession from Costa Rica to hunt for this treasure. He was on the Imperieuse at the time. and he and his sailors did some digging and then went away. Pal liser, however, was confident that the treasure existed, and he got the earl to put up s300,0oO to purchase this yacht and equipment They had full corps of men, including sailors and diggers. They came around through the Strait of Magellan and made the island all right In looking for the treasure. however. they used dynamite, and in the explosion which followed the earl and the admiral were so badly injured by rocks that to make a long story short they went back to Panama with nothing but disgust for their pains.
 Another party started out to look for this treasure was headed. by a New foundland woman, the widow of ship chandler. She went over to the Pacific and outfitted ship from Victoria. Her captain was a man named Fred Haclkett, and she had with her a transfer from Hartford of his permission from the Costa Rican government to search for treasure on Cocos, the understanding being that the latter was to have half of the find. When she came to Cocos the Island was inhabitated by castaway who was dressed like Robinson Crusoe He had nothing on but skins of beasts, and he looked crazy At first he could not speak. but after they had given him some whisky he told in broken language his story. He said he and others had had a conees- sion from Costa Rica to search for this treasure. but that the others had become disgusted and left. He could not say how long he had been on the island. At first he had kept tally of the days by nothing stick but he lost the stick and he had about given up in despair when the schooner arrived.
 In the meantime other parties, includ- ing some of our canal employees, have been planning to excavate Cocos, but so cancer hoard or the Madonna of gold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

1 am told that concessions can be gotten from the Costa Rican government If any one cares to search,
 The Hidden Gold of Central America
 There Is no doubt that there are great treasures hidden on the islands and also on the continental part of Central America. On Mona Island s200, DO worth of silver is buried This Is not far from Porto Rico
 I have myself seen here and at Pan- ana at least a half peck of solid gold images which have been taken from the old grave mounds of Central Amer lea. No one knows who buried them and some suppose that they date back for hundreds and even thousands of years. I saw d quart of these images in the bank of Ehrman & Go. in Pan- anna City and l am told that Minor c. Keith has a collection of them in New York which Is said to be worth sev- eral hundred thousand dollars.
 I took a photograph of the images in the Panama bank They arc of all sizes from that of a mans thumb nall to the palm of your hand. Some are quite heavy and the gold in them must be worth several hundreds dollars Some represent frogs, others birds, and some are women with a hawk head of Hath or, or what looks very much like 1t. Indeed, the most of the Images have an Egyptian cast and they remind one of the treasures found in the pyramids. The most of these came from the Chirl- qui province in the northern part of the Panama republic, where 1t joins Costa Rica.
 I am told that a large part of the Keith collection came from Costa Rica, and that they are now finding some about the Gulf of Agua Dulce, At San Jose there Is a jeweler who has some of these images for sale, and down here at Punta Arenas I have been offered two very fine ones for sS0 and $40 apiece l should judge that this equals just about half the value of the gold in them. Dr. Spencer Franklin. who has them for sale for a native, says that they are probably one or two thou sand years old.
 The work manship on these images is exquisite. Some of them are beautifully carved and some are lifelike in feature. Among the treasures of MT Ehrman are a great many breastplates of solid gold. These are round disks with nipple in the center ranging In diameter from two to six inches. The gold is thin plate and is unalloyed. He has also q bracelet which would fit around the biceps of prize fighter and which is about four inches wide. This Is also cf solid gold.
 I understand that many such images are being discovered and that in all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

houses by command of his majesty (who has nothing whatever to do with it really), but blue books that are pub lished in either of these ways are the exceptions to the general rule.
 1t is when parliament has ordered a government report to be printed that his majesty's stationery office comes in. It's head is J. ID. Ellis, whose official title is clerk of publications, and. as such. he Is blue book maker in chief. Considering that he not only has to read every blue book that Is published,-but is responsible for every last comma ana decimal point therein. he looks surprisingly hearty.
 The blue book in embryo comes to FL lis from parliament and he decides which of the printing firms with which the sta- tionery office has dealings shall have the job of putting 1t in type There are eight of these, one of which, whose headquar ters are in Dr. Johnson's old haunt. F'et- ter Lane, has a monopoly of the actual sale of blue books. Of course, every gov ernment department is anxious to nave the blue book recording It's activities pub llshed ahead of those of every other de- pertinent. and the clerk of publications has to make each one of them wait for their turn, and incidentally has to see to 1t that the cost of publishing every blue book is kept down to as little as possible.
 ''It is hard to say exactly when the making of blue books began said Ellis, but we have them here as far back as 1730. What are the first ones about? Well. they deal with poor laws, local tax ation, tobacco growing and other subjects that were of prime importance in those days. That was before the age of rail- ways and steamboats. or course, and in- cidentally before your country had gained it's independence.
 We have our best sellers among blue books just like other publishers" the clerk of publications went on. "our editions run from 90 to 200 900 copies. and quite often an edition Is entirely sold out Last year. for example. blue book on infantry training was issued, 100000 copies being printed at the price of a shilling each. It was a work that every British soldier who is keen on his profession ought to pos- sess and the demand was so great that doubt If we have more than a few hundred copies left in stock Every year, of course. there Is some act of parliament which. in blue book form Is in great demand Last year the one on which there was perhaps the heaviest run was the new mineH act, this year the national insurance act and the home rule bill represent our best sell ers.'"
 Ellis declared there was romance even in blue books if one read them discerningly. Perhaps some day some body will make an effort to dig out all the dramatic stories that are buried away in these tonnes of British officialism, but if so nobody will envy him the task Compared with the job of wading through all the hundreds Of thousands of hlue books that have been put lished since 1730 the iabors of Her cuies appear like a summer afternoons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
ADrnRAL> PAIL IsERO OnEllSMXY To
 tlUNT TREASURE I1 CocoS lSLAnh
<Copyright, 1912. by Frank c. Carpenter.)
 Punta Arenas Costa Rica.

itCopyright, 1912. by Frank c. Carpenter.)
 Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. ~ OSTA RIGA has one of the fabled
 treasure islands of the world. o This is Cocos, which lies south west of here in latitude degrees s2 min utes and longitude S7 degrees minutes. It is claimed that on the island Is buried gold to the amount of millions of dollars. One of the treasures was carried there in 172O at the time of the revolution In Peru when the people of Lima and Callao char tered the little vessel lying at the wharves and escaped to Cocos with their plate, bullion and other valuables. They were , chased by a Peruvian man of war, but outran it in the darkness. They landed Il boatloads of treasure at Cocos amount ing in value, 1t is said all the way from $5QO00,000 to 00000. Among the objects was a life sized statue of the Holy Vir- -4Sin, made of solid gold, and there were smaller golden statues of St. Joseph, St. Peter and others There was a great quantity of silver plate, and, in all, vast treasure.
 After burying this, the vessel started back to Peru, but on it's way 1t met one of the revolutionary men of war and was bombarded. As a result every Peruvian on board was killed and only two men, an Englishman and an American, were saved. The American afterward disap- peared. His name was Thompson. This left the Englishman, resident of New foundland, named Heating, as the sole owner of the secret Keating went home and a short time later started out two expeditions to get the treasure. in one of these his vessel was wrecked and in the other he and his crew were arrested at Panama and sent back home. He left his charts, however, to his descendants, and some years ago they were still in the hands of one of them. Mrs. Young, who was then living in Boston.