Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

were prosecuted by the Spaniards. There is
one on the top of mountain in Colombia,
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 English
men are now planning to drain the lake and
mine the bed for the treasures. They are
making tunnel to let off the water
heard of similar treasure boards in this
same region of South America There is
one in Ecuador said to contain the treasures
Of the 1ncas and another in Peru where it
is claimed that something like $l6,OOO,OOO
worth of gold was thrown at the time Pr
zarro broke faith with Atahualpa and caused
his death.
You may remember part of the 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. 1t was at this time that
Pizarro, the Spanish general, had captured
the Inca king Atahualpa, who was also
sort Of prophet and high priest of the peo-
pie. He offered to ransom the latter if the
Indians would fill the room in which the
king was imprisoned with gold.
The room was II feet wide, 20 feet long
and nine feet high The gold was brought
in in great quantities. 1t comprised gold
plates torn from the Temple of the Sun at
Cuzco, gold vases wonderfully carved i'm
mense gold basins, and hundreds of drinking
cups and dishes of various kinds. There was
so much of it that it took the Indian gold
smith a whole month"; working day and
night, to cast it into ingots, and so much
that it filled the room, as Pizarro demanded.
After Pizarro got the gold he treacherously
killed the king, and it is said that the In
dams then gathered together such gold as
they had left and buried it in that unknown
lake.
bottom of Lake Titicaca, but that can never
be drained. There are other gold boards in
the nitrate fields farther south, and indeed
no one knows just where the greatest treas
ures of the past lie. 1t 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 Us households of jewels,
silver and gold and he tortured the people
to make them confess where the money was
hidden.
The Pearl Islands of the Western Pacific.
If treasures are found at old Panama it is
not improbable that jewels and pearls may
be found among them. The waters adjoin
ing 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 ex-
plorers 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 800 grains home to the
queen Cortez found black pearls which
came from the waters of Lower California,
while Ferdinand De Soto is said to have
robbed one of the Indian queens of a great
string of fine pearls.
There are pearl fisheries just outside
Panama bay and the diving is going on now.
find pearls for sale here in Punta Arenas
and the walters at the hotel tables will unite
knots in their handkerchiefs and ask you to
buy them between bites. Some of the pearls
are only seeds, but others are as big as 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
was told that one was taken out few years
ago which weight 50. carats and have
heard Of another which l2-year-old boy
boy found in an oyster and sold for $4,000