PIRATES' TREASURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1915, Page 10 (Supplement)

PIRATES' TREASURE.

ANOTHER EXPEDITION. Springfield, October 8. Bound for an island off the west coast of Australia, the South Sea island pearl fishing expedition party left Kansas City yesterday for San Francisco, where a ship will be purchased for the subsequent trip by water. The seekers anticipate the uncovering on an unknown island of a treasure of £12,000,000 in English sovereigns, buried there in 1850 by pirates. The leader is Captain James Brown, of Bangor, who was the only survivor of the pirate ship. Alva D. Milligan, of this city, president of the Missouri Wholesale Grocery men's Association, is one of the heaviest interested in the company, and other influential men of Kansas City and Springfield contributed towards financing the expedition. The party is composed of R. C. Hardin and A. T. Swanson, grocer and lumberman, respectively, of Mountain Grove; [Fred Ellis, insurance agent, Springfield, and F. P. Blair, clerk at the Muehlbach Hotel, Kansas City. Thev expect to reach the island by November 110. This is not Skipper Brown's first expedition in quest of the fabulous buried treasure. On the first trip he went to the far-famed Cocos Island, a desolate isle lying 500 miles off the const of Costa Rica. In 1900 he was in this city on his way to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end, which for half a century has lured adventurers over the seas. Like the fascinating tale of pirates' cove—priceless jewels and bright doubloons —the story has been the same. The fortune hunters returned wiser and shy the "pieces o' eight."