PAGE SIX THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.
The Cuban Coast UNDERWOOD BASSAN Stores 70. 74 Central Ave. TYPEWRITER CLUB Expeditions Are Being Fitted Out To Hunt For Hidcan Treasure Deposited By Pirates We Have Just received a Large Shipment of KEDS FOR MEN AND WOMEN Our Club Starts Tomorrow Sunday Aug 4th Uuderwood 00 per week (Portablo) 50 BOYS AND GIRLS IN LARGE VARIETY OF STYLES Our prices defy competition OFFICINA MODERNA Salas Co. Panama. Lda.
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED JAMAICA Former Guatemalan Cousul Held For Shooting Samuel Russell The Tailor (Continued from Page 2)
Messrs. Elders and Fyffe were selling in the English market at from 23 10 to 25 100 per ton as against Dismissed from his post of Guate fruit of the Jamaica Products malan consul general in San Fran which fetched between 23 to 25 per cisco on July 27, Francisco Perez, ton.
was arrested on Monday last for the alleged shooting and wounding of Rent Receipt Books in Spanish Celso de Leon, member of promi and English for male at the orknent Guatemalan family.
man Printery.
24th STREET Guachapali Panama Drink Salada Tea the best for the Tropics LA MASCOTA Following the discovery of four antique cannon at Cayo Coco, off th: south coast of Cuba, expeditions are being fitt to hunt for hidden treasure deposited in that region by the pirates who roamed the Spanish Main several hundred years ago.
The latest discovery of cannon was made by Dr. Pardo Guardiola and Dr. Wilfredo Masso, of Caibarien. The four pieces bear the English crown with the initials and the date 1532, and are thought 99 99 to have belonged to a unit of the fleet of English pirate craft that Join now and win a Typowriter. Select a was sunk in an engagement with an number before they are all taken up enemy vessel.
Several discoveries of cannon have been made along various parts of the Cuban coast. It is known that years ago the West Indies were practically the headquarters of a COLON, number of pirate craft. The tradiPANAMA, tion is that the Isle of Pines was O, BOX 257 BOX PHONE 537 the Treasure Island of which RoPHONE 800 bert Louis Stevenson wrote.
Spanish Cannon Seven cannon were recently dug up at Cayo Largo, off Batabano, thirty miles from Havana. It is relatWire for us and We ll Wire for You ed that the pirate Latrobe, after seeizing a Spanish galleon, stripped NIMBLEY Co.
her of her guns, filled their barreels with treasure in gold gold and other Electricians and Dealers valuables, and after sealing the Wiring, Supplies and Repairs mouths and firing holes, hid the cannon on Cayo Largo. The cannon Telephone 1059 discovered there were so sealed.
The question of ownership has Box 747 Ancon CZ been in discussion between the fishNo Street Panama erman Cortes, who made the find, and the custom house authorities of Batabano. The latter insist that the government as in all cases of hidden treasure, is entitled to one half of the proceeds of the sale of the The Diadem Jewelry Store cannon. The finder, while admitting 79 Central Avenue that this rule might apply to any.
thing found inside the cannon, held Only Good Quality for that should the cannon be empty Your Money they could not be considered treasure.
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This view was not taken seriously by the authorities, who contend that the cannon cannot be considered as ordinary goods. They point out when entering the country. Ladies that their association and their age shoes whose uppers are not made of put them outside this category, and leather as well as men and women added greatly to their value as historical relics.
slippers must pay a new duty of 1, the new decree also orders, in place Custom Tailor There are seven pieces in all in of the rekular import duty of 15 per. 000 the Batabano find, three of which have been raised and taken to Batacent. ad valorem hitherto paid. Chil No 22 Stroot drens shoes up to size will conbano, where they are being held by tinue to pay 15 per cent. duty as also Guachapali the custom authorities. The other Panama de four are still lying in the shallow special sports shoes, spanish ropewaters of Cayo Largo, and will be soled slippers or alpargatas and 100000OCOCCSOCSODOCOCCA raised after those in Batabano have all other footwear not made of leathbeen opened.
cer, The Canal Zone, commissaries are Small The Week News freedom to make unrestricted (Continued from Page 1) sales to private individuals or orDENTIST ama Costa Rica border. No records ganisations with the abrogation of MASONIC TEMPLE of this concession exists in the Re the Taft Agreement which regulated Office Hours: 8, em to 12 pm public, it is understood, and that up such matters; and in the absence of to now nothing has been heard of ratification of the pending treaty be 30 to 30 pm the North and South American Colo tween Panama and the United Sundays, by Special Appointmen nisation Co. which has pointed out States. This is the gist of a com Masonic Temple ilth St, that the land it now wants to re munication to the Panama GovernP. O, Box 787. CRISTOBAL cover was granted it by virtue of a ment from the United States LegaPHONE: OFFICE 1664 contract negotiated with the govern tion which was signed by Charge ment of Colombia and Costa Rica Affaires Benjamin Muse. The when the Isthmus formed part of communication points out, however, the former.
that it was never the intention of the United States to allow entire Three months hence importers of (fredom of sales by the commissaries shoes will pay 50 more duty on to unauthorised persons.
shoes imported into the Republic, according to a decree issued on Concepcion Martinez, Ricardo MorTuesday by the Treasury depart gan, and Jose Blea, have been arment. Leather shoes at present pay rested by the police at Armuelles a duty of one dollar per pair when and are held in the jail at David, Calidonia No 44 imported into this country as author suspected of the murder of a Garcia ised by law 134 of 1928; the purpose Frenchman whose mutilated body of which was to protect the national was found in a lonely spot at Puerto shoe industry. It is based on the Armuelles early last Sunday morncame law that the new 50 per cent, ing, according to a report telegraph. ports that he has been unable to obincrease has been ordered. ea on Tuesday to the Department of tain more information due to an inEvery pair of shoes of foreign man Government by the Governor of terruption in the telegraph line beufacture will have to pay 50 Chiriqui. The Governor further re tween David and Puerto Armuelles.
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