Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-07-29
Vast Fortune in Buried Gold Unearthed on Lonely Isand

Papeete, Tahiti.-(By the Associat- ed Press.)-Romance is not yet dead. Tales of bucaneering, murder on the high seas, buried gold on lonely, un- inhabited islands and charts and cryptograms of hidden treasure trove are not all inventions of imaginative minds or legends of day which is long past.
 Such tale is the story of the treasure of the island of Pinaki, whose hiding place, after a patient search of more than seven years, has at last been discovered. And now schooner from Tahiti has been dispatched to bring away the gold.
 A half century ago four sailors, de- serters from a coastwise vessel, joined revolutionists in Peru and learned of a vast treasure of jewels, plate and ingots, the property of the church, which had ben hidden in Peru to pre- vent it from falling into the hands of one of the warning factions. Secret ly the sailors searched for the treasure found it concealed in a church build ing and moved it to another hiding place on the coast.
 Obtained Through Murder.
 Going to Panama, the seafarers at night boarded small schooner, mur- dered the crew and, after putting the treasure aboard, set sail across the Pacific, intending to make some European port later to dispose of their wealth. Recalling that they had no clearance papers and probably could not enter a European port safely, they decided to hide the gold on some uninhabited island and then get it later in a vessel they would charter at Sydney, N. S. w., for trading pur- poses.
 Across their path lay the island of
 Pinaki, in the Paumotu archipelago
 of the South seas, and at this unin- habited spot they stopped and hid their loot. One native, who observed
 them from neighboring island and
 rowed across to see what the men
 from the strange schooner were do-
 ing, was killed and his tribal brother,
 who crossed later, found only his empty canoe and strange markings on
 the trees.
 Sailing on to Australia, the four
 scuttled their vessel when few miles from shore and, rowing to land, told of a storm at sea which opened the
 seams of their ship. Not all believed them, for some residents had seen the ship approaching and had witnessed : it's mysterious sinking. There were no police, however, in that section and as the four men looked desperate they were permitted to strike out overland for Sydney unmolested. Years later, in about 1914, a MT . Howe was accosted on Sydney street by an aged beggar. When Howe gave the man a few shillings he was sur prised to hear the beggar ask his l name and address. Some time later Howe received an urgent summons te
 20 to a Sydney hospital. There he
 found the beggar, who told of how hf
 and three others had buried the treas
 ure, had sailed on to Australia ane , had set out overland for Sydney. Treasure is Discovered
 On their way blacks attacked then 3 and killed two of the sailors. Int began and his surviving companion Brown, tried for years to get a shiI to 20 for the treasure, but never ob tained money enough. Brown finally , disappeared and he, Killrain, had fal len into misfortune and knew his ent l was near. Therefore, he gave Howe the map of the island, begged him tt believe the story true and to searcf 3 for the treasure. The following da!
 the beggar died. Since then Howe has been searching g for the treasure and lately announced : that he had found it in a shallow la l goon on Pinaki. Lately he chartered |, a schooner at Papeete to go to llt the gold, after making contract witt :. the Colonial government as to hl' | rights in the matter. It Is said th' treasure is worth several million dol lars.