The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-06
FRANKMOUNT HERE
WITH A BIG CARGO
Over -Four Million Feet of Lumber
on Board En- Route to
Australia.

With one of the largest cargoes Of
lumber ever to arrive in this port on
one vessel the British tramp steamer
Frankmount once more appeared in port
yesterday forenoon. Its cargo, which
is destined for Freemantle, West Aus
tralia, measures four and half million
feet, or almost the amount carried by
the five largest lumber schooners plying
into this port from the Coast.
The Frankmount stopped here for
bunker coal and is now loading at the
Inter-Island company's bunkers. 1t will
take on four hundred tons before leav-
ing on the long trip ahead which will
take it half the circumference of the
antipodean continent beside the journey
down to it.
The vessel formerly called here n
few months ago with big cargo of
coal for the navy from the naval yards
of Norfolk, Virginia. While here two
Of the Chinese crew escaped and its
agents had to put up large bond be.
fore the vessel was permitted to leave
port. The men were later recaptured
but were put on the steamer Persia for
deportation just short while before
the Frankmount arrived.
The steamer will leave this morning
for Freemantle.
Panama Canal Cost.
The report covering the end of the
ninth year of American jurisdiction
over the Panama Canal shows that the
total expenditure has been $290,ll0,.
600; that 80 per cent of the concrete
work has been completed, and that
only 20,000,00O cubic yards of earth
remain to be excavated. 1t is likewise
shown that the work of excavation is
going on at the rate of about $500, 900
cubic yards monthly to date, and that
the expense of fertilization will amount
to $2,000,000. The slide in Culebra cut,
which has not moved for two years,
started again on May 10, and by the
next day it covered three tracks to a
depth of 20 feet. In April the force
at work on the canal, including con-
tractors, numbered Al 1872 men. This
was slight reduction in the number
of men engaged in the work the previ.
Gus month.
Island Shipping.
The schooner Honoipu, which has
been at Hama discharging freight and
taking on sugar since May 20, was tow.
ed to sea by the Inter-lsland steamer
Claudine on Tuesday last and is now on
| its way to San Francisco.
The Claudine returned yesterday from
its Maui run and is loading for the
weekend return trip today this after.
noon. on
Vessels sailing yesterday were the
W. G. Hall for three Kauai ports, the
Wailele for Hamakua, and the Helene
TO rother Hawaii ports.
The Matson steamer Lurline left late
in the evening for Kahului. 1t will re-
turn Sunday.
Cocos Island Still Intact.
The little British steamer Melmore
Captain Pollitt, dropped into San Fran.
cisco from Cocos Island with the tale
of the shattering of two more dreams
of priceless treasure.
Cocos Island is still in the cid ia.
miliar spot, and it still holds the ia
bled millions fondly supposed to be
waiting in a cave for some fortunate
! finder.
II doesn't take much to start treas
ure hunters on the trail.
| The inspiration of the Melmore expe
dition was two fold. There was the
confession, while drunk, Of Jack Reid
sailorman, that another sailorman, on
his deathbed, had admitted to Reid
that he knew the hiding place of vast
golden treasures from the Peruvian
churches that had been placed on board
the Nova Scotiaman Mary Die for SAT,
keeping.
The crew of the Mary Die resolved
to keep the treasure for themselves
They hid it on Cocos Island, intending
to return later. The ship was wrecked
and the sole survivor was aforesai,
dying sailor, who intrusted the seere
to the bibulous Jack Reid, who, Will,
in his cups, became confidential will
one McEweu, also a sailor.
McEwen was taken along on the Mel
more to point out the spot. Speakin,
of him Yesterday, a member of tn,
Melmore s crew said:
His first name was Jack, but w,
called him Ananias before we left Co
eos Island.'
The other incentive was also death
bed legacy.
4 An aged tar lay dying in British
hospital. Mrs. Barry Till and Mis-
Davis, middle-aged women. had nurse,
him in his last illness. He sent TO