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Show ' JL; SATU1WAY, JULY ia,18W. . lc 'THE SALT J.AKE T1MKS. TREJJSURffiOFPIRATES Millions of Money Secreted By Old-Ti- Tree Booters, and the Search Tor It. THE STOEY OF CAPTAIN BENITO. Glittering Tales of Buried Gold and Clems The Unsuccessful Expedition to Cocoa Island. Hems lloat about the now and tlien to "Cocos island," very few people know BPJEF is said" that a greater lliun Captain is buried there. In however, the ordinary novel of the Monte rubies and pearls. Tiio whole treasure, placed In various vaults out in the sand-stone and hidden in the sand, is estimated, according to the story of Chapiiell and Thompson, the authorities for tho whole matter, as surpassing $30,000,000. There was also a crown of gold studded with diamonds, the largest stone "as large as a pigeon egg," the value of which "no one was able to estimate." The usual succession of quarrels fol-lowed. The captain's own plan was to re-turn to their "triangular island" in the West Indies, get the "nine million pounds sterling" there buried, and bring it to Cocos. Then, he said, they would make a fair division, sail to some convenient place, disband, sink the brig, and "each man should go where be pleased," In a fight Bomo thirty-fou- r pirates were killed and seventeen injured.- - About a hundred pi-rates remaining sailed for the West Indies to carry out the captain's plans. ButWneanwhile the British frigate Magi-cien-sent out with the one survivor of the nineteen pirates captured by the Chal-lenger the year before, had been hunting up "the triangular island," had found it and secured some of the treasure. The Wolampago, short handed and badly oil for ammunition, sailed into the hidden bay and came up against the guns of the Mngi-cien- Most of the pirates were captured alive, the captain blowing out bis own brains when he saw that resistance was useless, and eighty-on-e were tried, con-demned and hanged to the yardarm in Kingston harbor, .Jamaica. The two En-glish sailors, Chappcll and, Thompson, were released from the Kingston prison at night by some unknown person, who stated that he was under great obligations to rel- - AN OLD TIME P1RATB BKIO. Crista order is quite cast in the shade by the simple, straightforward narrative that has led men to tit out many a vessel on the search for immense piratical hoards be-lieved to exist at two places far apart from each other. There bis lately been a re-newed interest in what tbe skeptical term the "Great West Indian and Manila Gal-leon Myth," and it is a good time to put the traditions in coherent and reasonable form. To begin with, the entire story of the "buried treasure on Cocos island," one of the Galapagos group, is one of the most curious In the literature of piracy and plunder. Mora than a dozen expeditions to recover it have been fitted out at various times from San Francisco, and all have proved fruitless, including the one pro-jected a few weeks ago by snveu or eight California ranchers from Gilroy. The only complete history of the treas-ure is contained in a now rare pamphlet written, it is said, by W. J. Woodly, and published in San Francisco. It sets forth the affair at great length, and with full faith in the veracity of its witnesses. The story begins "along the Spanish main," about 18BS and 1830, when the pi-ratical brig Rulampago, "carrying eight carronades and a long swivel gun," and a crew of 142 men, captured an English mer-chantman and killed all on board except-ing two sailors, Thompson and Cbappell, who were forced to join them and take their oath. After this the pirnte contin-ued to cruise about the West Indies, capt-uring many vessels and accumulating vast treasures, amounting in all to about the value of ten million pounds sterling. They sheltered themselves at "a small island of triangular shape, having a small harbor which completely hid them from passing vessels." On this island they hud Innumerable "sprees," or, in the phrase oi the times, "carousals." When war was declared between Eng-land and Spain (about ItCJ, tbe old pam-phlet says, and I have no reference book by me) "British men-of-w- began to tw morn abundant in West Indian waters," CONCEALIKU THR TREASURE, atives of theirs. They shipped on board a whaler, and agreed to stick by each other and if possible to return to Cocos island for the treasure. Years passed; they remained two com-mon sailors "before the most." At last in 1842 they separated, and in 1844 Thompson, hearing that Chappell was dead, and being himself dying at St. Johns, N. F., made a confession and drew a map from memory which he gave to the C'aten family, poor fishermen who were caring for him. In 184(1 Chappell heard that Thompson wag dead, and, determining to move in the matter, told the owner of a tugboat, who interested some rich Englishmen. They chartered a small vessel and sent Chappell with it. Sailing from Panama and en-countering storms the vessel ran into the Gulf of Dulce, was grounded on a rock and lost. Chappell and the English agent of the company got ashore, but died of yellow fever. All Chappell's memoranda and the map of Cocos then fell into the hands of a Cnlifornlan speculator, who or-ganized the first expedition known to have visited the island. There havo been many stories in print concerning other "confessions" of one or another of the eighty-on-e pirates who died in Kingston harbor. They all come from the talk of an English marine, John Miles, who understood Portuguese and Spanish, and heard some of tho condemned men talk to each other during the few days be-fore the execution. After sifting all these stories and comparing them the sum total appears to be that, in the words of the king of Brobdingnag to Gulliver, the pirates were "as pestilent a set of vermin as ever went unhanged." Nevertheless they be-lieved in the Cocos treasure story; their talk ran continually on that and on certain private caches of their own. More of the stories from this pamphlet might be told, but the main thread of the narrative has been followed. The rest is but the incidental the dim background of slave voyages to tho Guinea coast, the ear-ly adventures of Ctipt. Benito, the the pirate, way in which the Kelampago first be-came t he "terror of the Spanish seas," and the total inability - the actors in this tragedy to comprehend the ovil of their 9 PACIFIC O. ' SUB.'ndloe 1st. ; 4$jjjt$Lw E&UAIQfi. MMa I. X V s i:' THR CAPTAIN BIJSW OUT H18 BRAINS, own lives. Indeed the whole "confession of the condemned pirates," taken down from the recollection of Miles the marine, is a remarkable document, whether viewed as a "plain statement of the facts as heard by him," or merely as a piece of literarv Invention. The liuvor of truth is in it. I know of no ono who would enjoy it better than Robert Louis Stevenson, and I can-not disabuse myself of the suspicion that he knew all about this Cocoa island narra-tive before he wrote his altogether admi-rable "Treasure Island" story. Charles Howard Shuts. THE GALAPAGOS UROUP. hnd the pirate Capt. Benito found only well armed cruisers instead of rich Span-ish galleons. He therefore buried treas-ures "of the value of nine million pounds Sterling" in a number of places on the Mangular island, where a large part of it still remains, aud set sail around Cape Horn to the Pacific, carrying with him one million pounds sterling in gold. In the Ftraita of Magellan the captain had six mouths' provisions cached on a small Ul-- I and. They then sailed to the Island of Massafuera, off the Chilian coast. Here nineteen of the pirates desired to go to Valparaiso on a spree against the cap-- j tain's advice. He then gave them money and a boat, and left them at night off the j harbor, promising to "return for them in three days;" but he immediately crowded on all sail and weut north to the Mexican i coast, being gladly rid of these trouble--l . me fellows. Tho nineteen, after their j spree, "cut out" a small brig in Valparaiso 1 bay and escaped, meaning to return to tin, West Indian Island and dig up the nine million pounds sterling. They were enpt- - nred by the British war sloop Challenger, ;j Bant In irons to Knglaud, and all but one, j iwho turned king's evidence in the matter of the treasure, were executed. Meanwhile the Relaiupa;;o had captured ji srichgaUeonoffGuayaqull.andhadrhosen i H new depot ou Cocos Island, 4 dogs. 33 min. I north of the equator and 400 miles from i Panama. The islaud is about four miles I across, rocky and well watered. They ' J buried much church plate, jewels and gold j 3 on the beach "near a cocoanut grove," j chiseling marks on a high rock 300 feet j east of the deposit. They then bore off for j Acapulco. The Mexican revolution had ' j meanwhile broken out, and the stately old i Spanish viceroy Ued from the City of Mex-- j ico to Acapulco, where two of the great j Manila treasure ships were lying. The I viceroy end the govcruorof Acapulco, with ! all the state treasure they could gather up, and many wealthy Spaniards also carrying their treasures, went on board. Both these i galloons were captured by tho Relampago, ! iiuttaa smaller one, containing according j to her bills of lading ee,000,000 of silver, and j gold and jewels to the value of 137,000,000, ; 4nk before the treasure could be removed, i ""be other and larger galleon, containmg ' still greater treasures, was saved, and the whole transferred to the pirate, which then j sailed to Cocos. The first deposit has been spoken of. A f second was now made on the northeast end of the island. Here they buried "175 tons f of silver dollars" with all possible pre- - caution. In another spot they placed "U73 j gold hilted and jeweled swords," and in a third excavation about 15,0&),000 worth of gold bricks. The captain himself buried a j large number of emeralds, diamonds, ElOllMTllS. The Laaf-Shade- d Eesidences of Some Well Known Mon Editor Bunner's New Jersey Home, PLATT'S FINE FAEM. Where He Finds Sunday Eest-Coc- kloft Hall, Immortalized By Wash-ington Irving. house of II. C. Bunuer, of Puck, at Nutley, N. stands in a forest of oaks maples. It has a pretty THE at the rear, and there other houses near by, the picture gives the of a "lodge in some vast wilderness." Nut-lev- , about forty minutes ride by caVs from Jersey City, is the new part of the old town of Franklin, 1 Hurry, resides in New York and is superintendent of the money order de-partment of the United States Express company, of which his father is presi-dent. Tho eldest son, Edward, looks after the interests of this company in Washington, D. C, where he lives. Cockloft hall, immortalized by Wash-ington Irving, is still an interesting place to visit in Newark, N. J. Fashion has added a conservatory and changed the gablo roof into a French one, but tho main part of the house is very much as it was built over 150 years ago by the Gonvernours. a New York family of Huguenot origin. The house became in course of time the residence of Oouver-neu- r Kemble, a bachelor. There, with a retinue of servants to do his bidding, he gloried in observing the golden rules of hospitality, which consisted in those days in giving a gnest the freedom of the house and cramming him with beef and pudding. Washington Irving was a fre-quent and welcome viator of the jolly bachelor. There wag a snmmer house on the place, and in it Irving and his friend James Kirke Panlding concocted the "Salmagundi Papers," which appeared every month "to vex and charm the town." Many of these papers, as the reader knows, are devoted to a descrip-tion of Pindar Cockloft and his home, Cockloft hall or manor. The house is now owned by Mr. Nevers, whose wife was Miss Whiting. Mr. Whiting bought the place some forty years ago from one of the Kembles. Tho summer house was sacrificed to the demands of trade a few years back, the office of a lumber com-pany now standing upon the historic epot. The grounds surrounding the H. c. bcnxkk's home. a place tnat celebrated its centenary re revolutionary times, as it was set-tled in the Seventeenth century. Nutley has sprang tip within tho past fonror five years, the land belonging in part to the Stewart and Sat tcrlee estates. It is a picturesque spot. The Orange mountains are in sight; there are bold rocks and sloping plains, and the Yantacaw river meanders through tho fertile valley. Mr. Bunner has lived in Nutley three years. His houe is an extremely pleas- - ant nnd homelike place. There is a across the front. Over the entrance door hangs a horseshoe, which is bound to bring Mr. Bunner peace and prosper-ity, for it is so placed that the luck can-not escape. But half the people, by the way, know how to hang tip a horseshoe properly. Tho hall is a wiio, hospitablo one, with the drawing room and Mr. Bunner's study opening from it at either side. The photograph shows the south side of the house, with the conservatory, which opens ont of the diring room. The projection to the front in Mr. Bun-ner's study. A carved oak wilting desk stands in one corner, Biirmonnted by a statuette of the Venus of Milo. The desk is open, and piled mountain high with manuscripts, writing paper and proofs. A table in the center of the room h;w a load of nncnt papers and magazines, letters and books. A pretty glass jar holding some freshly gathered OLD COCKLOFT HALL. house are still spacious, but in Irving' time they extended to what is now Belleville avenue at the rear and sloped down to the Passaic river in front. On the bauk of the river was the summer house, which was octagonal in Bhape, about eighteen feet in diameter, containing only one apartment, with a door facing the river on the east and having windows opening toward each of the other three cardinal points. It was built of stone and had been originally weather boarded. It was constructed with great care. The walls were plas-tered and papered, there wa9 an orna-mental cornico and chair board and an arched doorway and cut stone steps. Near by was a fish pond, which Irving acconnts for as follows: "Mr. Cockloft thought there was nothing liko hav-ing things to one's self, and there-fore he blew up a large bed of rocks for the purpose of having a fish pond of his own, although tho river ran about 100 yards' distance from the house and was well stored with fish, and he would have a summer house built on the margin of the fish pond, he would havo it surrounded with willows and elms, and he would have a cellar dug under it, and there the bottles were kept that were wont to surrender their exhil-arating contents at the summons of the occupants of the comfortable apartment 11 t. c. piatt's cocntry house. ferns just has a foothold among all the literary impedimenta. In another cor-ner is also a writing desk. This doubt-less belongs to the mistress of the cot-tag- o, for thero is an air about it that suggests a feminine owner. The floor is of hard wood, nearly covered with rugs. There are easy chairs, a well filled bookcase and engravings, but no paintings on the wall. Mr. Bunner's family is a small one his wife and little daughter, Nancy, and the big dog, "Barber," the latter so named from an Adirondack gnido. Mr. Bunner used to visit the Essex county region some years ago, but his favorite haunts now in Bumincr are the Maine lakes, as he is something of an Izaak Walton in his tastes. States Senator Thomas C. Piatt keeps his suite of apartmonts at tho Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, the year round. In summer, however, he finds timo to spend a day or so each week at his country place in Orange county, where he owns a farm of about 150 acres "Ridge farm," as ho calls it. This is in the township of Highland Mills, a place-nea- r West Point. The house at Ridge farm, as shown in j the accompanying cut, is a low, ram-- ! bliug dwelling, being unpretending in appearance, but very comfortable in its appointments. It stands some thousand feet abovo the sea level, and near by is 3 grove of oak, pine and chestnut trees, beyond which there is an elevation which commands a fine view of the sur-rounding country. The Catskill moun-tains loom up in the distance and half a dozen lakes are in sight. The house is furnished in the Japanese style. There are miitting and rugs oi the floor, bamboo settees, low cretonne covered couches everything suitable for a summer house, with nothing heavy oj SUMMER HOUSE WHERE IRVING WROTE. above. The peculiar position of the building also illustrates the eccentric ideas of Cockloft, who was determined to have all his views on his own land and be beholden to no man for a pros-pect, so he placed the door of his sum-mer house on the side toward the water, while the windows all looked inland." Mr. Nevers has in his possession a copy of the "Salmagundi Papers," one of tho third edition. It contains somo very curious illustrations which have not been reproduced in later editions. There is a picture of Pindar Cockloft in all the glory of flowered waistcoat, knee breeches and a queue, and one of Barbara Cockloft in a long waisted silk gown, and beenffed, waltzing with a gallant. The fashion of this dance in those days was to skip one way and then to jump another, and the illustration does ample justice to the step. The picture of Cockloft manor ac-companying this article shows the house as it was originally bnilt, with the ex-ception of the conservatory. The reader must note well the sturdy cherry tree j which is frequently mentioned in the descriptions of Cockloft manor. "An old English cherry tree leans against a corner of the hall, and whether the house supports it or it sup-ports the house would be a question of some difficulty to decide. The tree has long since ceased bearing and is exceed-ingly infirm." This is Irving's descrip-tion of the old tree, which about two years ago was blown down. Frances M. Sylitk. J1 THE COCKLOFT HALL OF TODAY. cumbersome in appearance. There Mr. Piatt has a largo and valuable library. There he keeps his horses and some famous greyhounds, and there Mrs. Piatt j has quite a family of pet cats, "Julius" j being the prime favorite of the lot. He is a cat of many and varied accouipliah-- nients, but is chiefly celebrated for se-- ! lately sittingtipat table in a high chair, with a bib tied about his neck. During i the summer Mr. and Mrs. Piatt pass j 6ome time at the Oriental hotel, Coney Wand, but when Mr3. Piatt ia at Ridjre Farm Mr. Piatt spends the Saturday half-holida- y and Sunday with her. Mr. and Mrs. Piatt have three sons and two grandchildren. 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File n!f Exclusive Hatters In Salt Lake Youmaris Celebrated Hats. lniii;ttr I rum Mirk. Any animal which gives milk is there-by to a great extent protected from dis-ease. What would otherwise cause sick-ness hits an escape valve through the milk secretions. The mere statement of this fact ought to emphasize the neces-sity of giving milch cows pure water. The unhealthfiilness of milk in summer, from which so miinj children sicken and die, is more fmjuently caused by giving the cows impure water tha;. by anything else. New Orleans Picayune. Mum Thau He Wanted. Angry Caller (at newspaper office) Say, I want that little ad. I gave two days ago, "Wanted, an electric battery in good working order." taken out. Advertising Clerk What is the mat-ter? Didn't we give it the right loca-tion? Angry Caller Location be dashed! The blamed ad. overdid the business. My house was stmck by lightning last uigut! Chicago Tribune. Fire Trimf Stable. Firo proof stables aro not uncommon in Germany and are very simply built. Timbers liko railroad ties are placed from three and one half to four feet apart, arch corrugated iron posts letveen them and filled in with a mixture of cinders and lime, making it deep enough to pro--' tecc tho timbers. The trap or dour to reach the loft is made of sheet iron, filled iu with the same compound. This kind of fireproofing is very cheap aud very effective No Wonder ue Kicked. First Servant How do yon like your new place? Second Servant I don't like it at all. "Wliat is the matter? Do they treat you rudely?" "Oh, no; but they talt so lou that I can hear every word they say without having to listen, and I ain't used to that" Texas Sif tings. |