Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — ZUNH CITY FOUND. [ARTICLE]

ZUNH CITY FOUND.

DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE IN ft __ . ARIZONA. Explorers Are Led to It by Obscure Traditions of Neighboring f’eople aad Find a Solitary Occupant—Kansas Ba.ik Cashier Found Guilty. Very Ancient Americans. One of the most fniitful of recent archaeological expeditions lindertak'en in this country has just returned to Washington with a tale of adventure and discovery, the result of a search in the barren waste of the far southwest for the ashes and crumbled mits- of lost races and forgotten civilisations. Karly in the summer Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, explorer for the bureau of with Dr. Walter Hough of the ethnological department of the National Museum, left Washington for portions of Arizona and New Mexico. The two explorers proceeded directly to the eastern boundary of Arizona, not far from Fort Defiance. According to the traditions in which they had gotten scent of the buried treasures to he excavated there once lived in those parts ancient people, said to be relatives of the Zunii, which tribe, long liefore the discovery of Columbus, occupied the site of the famous Seven Cities of Cibola, found three centuries ago by Francisco Yasquez de Coronado, in the valleys of the Rio Zuni. An Indian trader, who had squatted there several years ago, was the sole occupant of the site of this strange city when the explorers found it. This squatter had torn down ail save a small corner of the circular walls, of whose stones he had built for hirr/.-elf a substantial habitation. Previous to his arrival the ruin hod been well preserved, standing to a considerable height. The small cells or houses built in the walls had been repeated upward about four tiers of stories. The ancient spring which once had bubbled in the midst of the central courtynrd was cleared by the ingenious squatter after it had been sealed by the dust for centuries.

GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION. Means of Preventing Mississippi Floods Wanted. , United States Senator Nelson of Minnesota and J. H. Berry of Arkansas have been in St. Paul ns part of *he senatorial committee appointed at the last session to investigate the sources of the Mississippi river in conjunction with the United States army engineers for the purpose of devising means to prevent the annual floods and for the general improvement of the up-river country. The entire party has gone to the upper Mississippi river country to commence their investigations and explorations. The investigations will develop the advisability of construct big canals to divert the overflow, extending the reservoirs and using the surplus for general, irrigation purposes as well as for improving the navigation of the river. The new river steamer built last summer for the Government took the party through the chains of reservoirs. BTOLE FROM UNCLE SAM. Government Employe Arrested for Theft of Coin. Silver dollars are missing from the strong box of the treasury in Washington, and though it. is believed that the loss is small, it may reach into the thousands. While the silver was being counted by weight a trusted employe was discovered in the act of opening one of the bags which contained 1,000 silver dollars each. It was discovered that lead had been substituted to make up the weight and Secretary Gage ordered a force of fifty men to count the silver by hand. This will take six months and will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000. FOUR TO GET $3,000,000. Fickle Fortune Makes St. Louis Young Folks Millionaires Unexpectedly. Travis Whitaker, a ybung man who is employed in a com mission house in St. Louis, and his brother, Keeble, and sisters, Belle and Fannie, are said to be heirs to $3,000,000 left years ago by a great-grandfather, who was in the East Indian trade. A grandfather of the presentheirs came to this country, settled first in Maryland, and then went to Virginia. When his father died he left no will. The property became a public trust and it is so yet.

Cashier Found Guilty. Cashier George A. Taylor of the Argentine bank, which failed last year owing thousands of dollars to depositors, wns convicted in the criminal ceurt in Argentine, K«n., of wrecking the concern. The trial had been proceeding for a week. The liabilities of the-bank when it failed were found to be sl9* 000 nnd the assets about SIO,OOO less. It wns shown statements of the bank’s conditiirti were sworn to by Taylor and that his bank held SBO,OOO worth at worthless paper. Tolstoi Suffering; from Illness. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says that Count Lyof Tolstoi, the Russian author and social reformer, is suffering from an illness which will necessitate the performance of a serious operation. Pullman Is Dead. George M. Pullman, the head of the great palace car company which bears his name, died suddenly at bis home in Chicago Tuesday morning, of heart failure. Guatemalan Revolution Ended. , T|e. legation of Guatemala in Washington received the following official dispatch: “Revolution subdued; order restored all over the country.” Death of J, L. Worden. Admiral John Lorimer Worden, hero of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac and one of the bravest sailor fighters ever produced by the United States navy, died in Washington of pneumonia. Weds a Japonese. Sir Edwin Arnold, poet and journalist, author of “The Light of Asia,” and colleague of J. M. Lesage in the editorship of the London Daily Telegraph, has married a Japanese lady in London. Sun Turns Its Coat. The New York Sun, which for many years was the best known Democratic newspaper in the East and the Tammany organ in New York City, but which supported McKinley in the last national eiecformal announcement of Robbers Murder a Farmer’s Wife. Mrs. Isaac Paul, wife of a farmer living roar miles east of Garnett, Ivan., was murdered in her house by robbers, who ransacked the place and secured $l4O in gold. Her husband found her in a dying condition, her skull having been crushed ... wW * -