The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 2

PACIFIC COMMEECIAL ADVERTISES, HONOLULU. WEDNESDAY. JULY 19, 1911. THE JUDGE COOPER OFF FOR PIRATES' TREASURE ISLE OF PALMYRA 1 i 4 3 Photographed Direct WE HAVE MORE IN STOCK Nothing later anywhere. MclNERNY, LTD.

P.rt and Merchant St. When Judge Henry E. Cooper comes ack from 1 cruise in the South Sea with t. I'. Miller perhaps he will have on hoard the svhoor.er the millions in cold v.nd silver which are to he lejiie.l on the islond of Palmyra, which the judge has just ae-quired for $To.

This is the island which the scene of an amusing treasure story which Jack lxmdon wrote for a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Tost and which was told by Captain Walker, in this paper, several years afro. Tn going over some documents at the bureau of conveyances yesterday. Regis trar Charles IT. Merriam came across one filed last by virtue of which the judjre X( the circuit court secured the island from Mrs. Elsie M.

Wunden-horg. widow of the late F. VT. Wnnden-herg of this city. In consideration of the sum of 3-750 the deed recites that Mrs.

"Wundenberg does "hereby release and forever quitclaim unto the said Henry P. Cooper, the island of Palmyra, situate in the Pacific Ocean in longitude 1G1 dog. 53 n.in. west Tind latitude 6 dg. 4 min.

north, or thereabouts, being the same premises conveyed to the said F. W. Wundenberg by deed of W. A. Kinney, dated the 3rd day 'of March, Attorney F.

I. represented Mrs. Wundenberg in the translation. THE ZEALANDIA 'Evcught more of the celebrated Brand of Australian Eutter. It's Gocd.

Eetter than the last. fK JUDGE HENRY E. COOPER, OWNER OF PALMYRA. coral The Pacific or anchored as follows: V. I).

Walker related strands. The Metropolitan Meat Market HEILBRON AND LOUIS, PROPS. Phone 3445. Port of Honolulu. Of course, all the outlying islands composing the Palmyra group belong to the United States and, as a matter of tact.

Judge ooper new requisition Price Goes Up. The late Mr. Wundenberg secured the property from Kinney for $300, so that the priice has gor.e up $250 since the last trans-action. Kinney sold out at a loss, for he obtained the island in ISSrt from W. F.

Allen, trustee of the i Pacific Navigation Company, for $750, the same amount that the judge paid, The Pacific Navigation Company ob- tained the property from W. il Wilcox on Julv 3. 1SS5. "for "one dollar and i We Represent THE NATIONAL SURETY COMPANY Kamehameha Got Gold. Kamehameha financial transaction witli the crew of the Santa Kosa was particularly amusing.

It seems by fortunate coincidence the king had a cargo of rum just arrived, which he! carefully bottled off. On the arrival of the pirate ship, rum being evidently! in demand, his price was ore coin per bottle. As soon as all their silver coin was expended the Santa Rosa crew pro-1 dnced five peso gold pieces and clearly i explained that the gold piece was worth five times as much as one silver piece, i and therefore demanded five bottles of rum. i is othcially known as part of the county of Honolulu. The treasure which is supposed to be on the island is said to have been taken, from the Spanish ship Esperan-za.

whieh was captured by pirates shortlv after leaving Peru in 1S16. The YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD Esperanza, six weeks after her capture, struck on sunken coral somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. The pirates built a small vessel from the wreck upon which they are alleged to have placed about a million and a half in Capital $1,500,000.00 Surplus 1,266,997.93 The silver "was buried in gold. "This the king would not assent to; 'one coin one bottle, he said. The crew therefore thought they would submit but cut the gold piece into five pieces.

This the king would not accept. He said he could not cut his bottles into five, so, as there was no alternative, the crew had to pive way. Soon there was nothing but doubloons still, one coin one bottle, demanded the king. Then came the bar silver." other valuable considerations." Wilcox had previously secured the island for $550 from Henry Kahaawinui, -who was the husband of Kalama, who was the widow of -Tohnson Beswick Wilkinson of Auckland. New Zealand.

J. Kaikala was also one of the persons who sold to Wilcox. The recitals in this last deed show that the island was devised to Kalama by Wilkinson tinder a will admitted to probate before the. supreme court of New Zealand, June 29, 1866. The island had been taken possession of in.

Iti2 by the Hawaiian government, which claimed practically everything in sight and out of sight in the South Seas, but at the time of the probating of thf Wilkinson will it was evidently considered as belonging to the British crown, which also had a little habit of claiming all the land floating around Hawaiian Trust Company Limited secure place." according to the ancient i legend, with some of the gold. This "secure is supposed to have been Palmyra Island. Capt. F. P.

i Walker related the story of the buried treasure in The Advertiser several years ago. An English pirate ship. The i Sarta Rosa, was fitted out in England to saridi for the treasure anil it has been declared by some romanticists that the crew got some of the buried wealth, Jack London based his recent yarn i on an amusing experience which the crew of the Santa P.osa had with King; I Tack London took that transaction, Coyne Furniture Ltd. Young Dldg. whb-h the story-tellers say occurred at Honolulu, and transferred it over to Palmyra.

Perhaps Judge Cooper, when he gets to his island, will exclaim, Vo. ho! and a bottle of rum in true pirate style. At any rate he will be monarch of all he surveys, for he owns the island. 923 Fort Street. Kamehameha here, but London took a novelist's license with the story.

Capt. VICTOR RECORDS JULY SUSPECT THAT ADAM'S ROLL IS CAUSE MORE STUDENTS TO COME THIS WHY TL tsr-a' it I 1 a' me! lr wn I tst i i i f.V 5 S. ia It: 5 i a 1 1 i 1 'f HONOLULU MUSIC CO. King St. near Fort.

OE HIS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANC An Anti-Gout and Anti-Rheumatic Natural Sparkling Table Water and Mr. Adams has been compelled to seek employment in San Francisco, where she is staying at present. Adams, who was known in Honolulu as an all Tiround athlete and pool and sfl(t2ir If possible a little better than a Kodak The 3A Special KODAK WASHINGTON. July 11. Sixty-five Chinese students will leave their native land August 7 for the United States tt enter American colleges.

Their expenses will be paid from the boxer indemnity returned to China by the United States. This is in line" with China's policy of -educating a number of her subjects each year in America from the proceeds of that fund. EAGLES WILL PRESENT PIONEER DAY SCENES. 1 0.00 per case of 1 00 bottles BKRKELEY, July Propping out of sight under circumstances so peculiar that the police have been asked to make a statewide search, Archibald Willis Adams, formerly a member of the staff of the Honolulu customhouse, has disappeared from his home, 2400 drove street, with bonds and other negotiable notes worth more than Foul play is feared. For the lust month his grief stricken wife.

Mrs. Helen Clark Adams, whom he married a little more than a year ago, has been conducting a quiet search for him. hoping to avoid notoriety, but in despair she appealed to Chief of II. HAGKFELD Distributors nu.iaru expert, met a number of professional pool players in San Francisco a few days ago, and this fart has been investigated by the police as a possible clew to his whereabouts. Adams occasionally won large sums by his skill with the cue and engaged in several contests of skill in poolroom in Third steet, San Francisco.

Several of his Honolulu acquaintances played with him there. The police believe that his companions learned of the large amount of money he carried and that efforts were made to obtain it. Whether he was murdered and robbed or lost the monev by gambling are problems which the detectives will attempt to solve. LIMTTED. in which are incorporated certain refinements that will appeal to those who want the best.

Regularly fitted with the Zeiss-Kodak anastigmat lens f. 6.3 and compound shutter. Pobce olinier today. There is not a clew to the where I abouts of the missing man. and Mrs.

Adams has offered a reward of fifty tTollars for information leading to his location. He carried heavy insurance. Lived in Honolulu. Adams, who lived for nine years in Honolulu, where he was married about nil SUDDly FREE! FREE! FREE! SAN FRAXCIsro, July 9. California of the days of geld wiil be repro-dueed by the local aeries of Eagles during the national i.onuvent ion of that order in August.

"The Luck of Roaring 'ainp" will be one of the tableau features of the pioneer show to be given in Cent ni I park, Eighth and Market streets. Local artists are submitting designs for the elaborate decorative cheine which will bo used as the frontage thv "forty-niner" camp. Life in the mining eamps will be recalled by men garbed in the picturesque costumes worn there. Hundreds of leeal Eagles dressed as Indians will take part the pageant. There will also be sceju's of Mexican life in California during the fifties.

Hundreds of trees will tie ustni to produce forest seen-, a part the decorative s. -heme of the carnival. a year and a half ago, came to Berke COM ley about six weeks ago and took temporary quarters with the Woolming-ton at 2400 Grove street. "Everything Photographic Fort below Hotel. I tie announced mat ne wante.l to in PH.

S. S. SMITH, osteopathic physician, graduate of the Pacific College of Osteopathy and member of the State and National Osteopathic Associations, who recently eaine 'here from an Bernadino for a visit, is so favorablv im pressed by the charm of Honolulu that he will remain. To introduce himself to the people of the city and viein- TJSE a dim or unsteady light? USE too strong a light? LET spots or streaks of light fall on work or book? INDEED, do any of these things sine eyes are too precious to endanger and electric lights permit ycu to avoid them all? ti Wing Tai Co. Contractors and Builders Furniture, 'Wall Paper, Fainting.

1216 Are. iin. ne win nv Tree i vest his capital in the southern part of the State. Prior to June 5. the day of his disappearance, he talked to his wife about going to San Diego and about a plan (o open a hotel there.

Mrs. Adams went to v'fut ome friends in Fni'tvale June 4 and the next dny received a phone call from her husband, who said that he had converted a large part of his collateral into nsh nrd would leave at once for Sa'i Diego. He assm-ed her when he arrived in the south he would send her a telegram. consultation for one week, beg in 20. at his office in the Metrorole.

AiaKea opposite Hawaiian Hotel. lr. Smith comes with commendatory letters from t-rominent citizens Hernadino and elsewhere. The Only FRENCH LAUNDRY Phone 1491. 777 King Street.

NO B2AXCII OFFICE. i CARD OF THANKS. Mr. and Mrs. John Neil and Mrs.

hn A. X'eiil and family desire tx an); their ninnv IVen.is v.r FAMOUS PAINTER LETT ESTATE TO HIS WIDOW. 1a)S ANGELES, July The will of Paul le Longpre, the. famous painter of flowers, who die.t nt h'i home here June h. was hl-d for probate today by his daughter, The estate, va'wd iu the document at 43.1.5 1 ctMisists real estate and personal property, "bank stock.

-as'a and promissory notes, an.l was left entirely to th- widow. Josephine de Lougpre, ith the except ion of sma.l bequest to his daughters, Blanche ue Longpre, Alice de Longprc Bourgeois, Pauline Long-pre, ar.d his brother, Henri de Long-ire of Paris. I Jc tention in th the Hawaiian Electric in late athv ,1 a H.s haste in leaving his wife and home wn? prompted by a reason wh'ch the police have thus far been unable to solve, nccording to Chief Vollmer. He did not wait for his w-ife to come to Berkeley to bid him goodbv. but sart-ed with the intention of taking the train for Los Angele.

Wife Without Money. then word from him. has Trnrned his wife. All the monev be-j' -ri? t0 fcs ronpTe w-ae her hn pi.5-ifin he home. i Choicest Flowers SKintnnt: have no monev, brt I hi -rive yon a little advic-.

eil. if ain't cot no monev ver ear. ml.v.' For any Occasion TAKIGUCH1, FLORIST Eeretania St. near Artesian St. READ THE ADVERTISER in A- -s.

IMooliev. .1.. cur. Mice Miss Powell, Mrs. Maefarlane, IX.

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