The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-09
CLIFF JEWELLERS OF ARIZONA
Belief That Their Connection With,
4 iAsiatic Races Could BE Esta bIfshed.

Relief That Their Connection With
II iAsiatic Races Could BE Esta blished.
In his report to the secretary of the
Interior the governor OF Arizona sug
gests that within the limits of that ter {
ritory may vet be discovered a solrl-
non to the most interesting problem
connected with this continent The
governor believes that an investigation
among the cliff and cave jewellers in
Arizona would establish their connec-
ton with the early Asiatic races, and
he recommends that commission shall
4 be appointed by congress to make the
proposed chronological research With
out raising the question of the feast
billy of acting on the recommendation,
the New York Press thinks it may be
said that the settlement Of the identity
of the Mound Buialers'' would prove
OF great interest to American scholars
and the American public generally r.
Traces Of the existence of these peo-
pie and even of their great power and
numbers abound in nearly all parts of
the country. From the Alleghanies
west to the Rockies. and from the.
Gulf far into British America. the re-
mains of ancient Notifications. sepul-,
cheers and affairs are found in numbers.
Beneath these have been discovered
human skeletons. pipes. pottery and
various implements of war and hus--
bandry, relics of Il race long extinct
before the first white man set foot on.
the shores of the new world. The ira
dlhons of the natives whom the first
settlers found in possession of the
country told practically nothing of
their predecessors. The remains the
mound builders have left behind them
go to show that they practiced the arts
or agriculture as well as those of the
chase, that they made coarse kind of
cloth, were quite skillful in the fabrica-
tlon OF ornaments and utensils, and
We're superior in all, respects to the
fierce and nomadic tribes which sue
| ceeded them. .r.
1t is believed that they We're a peace
Iul people, but We're compelled to build
| the Notifications whose remains exist
| as a defense against less civilized but
| more Warlike race, which probably oc-
cupleu the mountains and rOamed as
hunters over the unoccupied plains.
The mound builders were at last ap-
| parently overcome and pressed south
ward toward the borders of the gulf.
which seem to have been their original
| nome. In this region the first explor-
ers found the natives most resembling
IN religion, custom and government,
! what the original mound builders are
supposed to have been. They were SUI
perlor in every respect. except physical
proWess. to the northern and eastern.
tribes. and if some ethnologist, with
knowledge of the mound builders ex-
tenslve works scattered over the Mis-
slsslppl valley. had accompanied the.
earliest Spanish expeditions he might.
by a study OF aboriginal traditions,
have solved one of the most perplex-
Ing mysteries connected with the hui.
man race. The Spaniards, who did not
come as ethnOlogists scattered the ma
lives broke up their villages and form
OF government and effaced the clews
that might have led to the discovery OF
the origin Of the vanished people