The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-01
INDIANS From CHINA.
Those of Alnsln Are Thought to he oi
Mongolia origin

MOugplitt NEl.lh
If there is one man wac knows more
about the cost and Puget sodnd In
dians th"n another it is Judge Jamcs
Wicker,han II, of Tacoma, Wash. His
study In his hone on G street looks like
IN Indian curio store, while his books
touching upon Indian history are in.
valuable When asked by Daily
News man for his opinion as to the re.
ationship of the Chinese and the coast
Indians the judg said that there was
no question that u careful comparison
Of the Indian and Chinese languages
would reveal the affinity of the races
As to the Indian of the Sound known
as Siwashes, Mr. Wickersham stated
that investigat ions of government
ethnologists for years back show the
Mongolian cast of features in the In.
dams from Alas la as far south as Ore.
gon, and that the similarity is so great
as to be commonly referred to as the
Mongolian cast
"The re is one thing certain" said
Mr.. Wickersham, ''the first people to
come to this country came in from Asia,
be cause the language of the Maya In.
dians, of Yucatan and Mexico is SC
similar to tina of the Chinese There
appears to be no doubt that the abor-
iginal people of A merica and the people
of Asia are nearly related. There has
not yet been made sufficient com
parison to determine accurately that
there is a decided relationship, but the
government is investig ating. To arrive
ut correct solution some one must
| study the Mongolian language and COM
pare it with the India n languages. AS
to the Siwashes the mistake is made
of comparing them with the cultivated
Chinese. With the latter the Aztec In
dians the cultivated Indians as it were,
compare, while the Siwashes must be
| liltened to the low class Mongolians.
The Siwash bears the same relation to
the Aztec that the Mongolian savage
does to the cultivated Chinese"
| Mr. Wickersham displayed books that
went to show that there was communi-
cation between Alaska and Kamchatka
even in ancient times. One of his books
was printed in 1761 In it were claims
that the communication was frequent
and that it took but day to make the
trip across the Bering strait in their
primitive boats. The Mongolan tribes
are shown to have come clear up to the
East cape, within forty miles of Amer
lea, across the strait In referring to
Japanese wrecks on the Pacific coast
particularly on the Wa shington coast
in early days. which would indicate
what might have happened, George
Davidson, head of the United States
geodetical survey, stationed at San
FIR ncisco, stated in letter to Judge
Wickersham over a year ago that ''in
the chronological aspect of the question
that arises concerning these wrecks,
can say that have photograph of In
dians of Fraser river in which it is diff
cult to figure which may be pure Indi-
iians and which may be Japanese"
'"rhe mistake is made by most peo-
ple," said Mr. Wickersham, "of not Civ
ing the Siwashes credit for the amount
of intelligence they have. 1t is true
that they have no written language,
but it is also true that many Mongolian
tribes do not have written languages. -
Remarkably fine work in the carving
line was exhibited by the Judge. In re-
lation to the similarity of the Mongolian
and Siwash, the judge stated further
that he could show Indians on the res
ervation with the bias-cut eyes He
said that there was one Indian there
who was so like q. Chinese in looks as tc
be called "China." "It may be-" con-
cluded the judge, that the people
whence came these Indians are an off
shoot of the nation when the japanese
and Chinese were one people That
there is great similarity is very true.
1t can be seen in their characters, THEN
language and their ways. In China
you can find sights that may be found
among Indians in this country. In the
Mississippi valley, for instance, the In.
dian mounds are identical with the
mounds found in China.
In Il book entitled America Discov.
cred by the Welsh" by Bowen, appears
the following: "In 1861 Degnignes, Il
French soldier, made known to the
world that the Chinese discovered Amer.
lea in the fifth century. He derived the
knowledge from Chinese official annals
He affirmed that in the year 400 A. d..
Hoei Shin Universal Compassion) Chi
neSe Buddhist priest, returned to Sin
gan, capital of China, and declared thai
he had been to Tahan (kamchatka)
and from thence on to a country about
twenty thousand Ii Short Chinese miles,
or about seven thousand English miles
The measurements are taken to be about
the distance between China and Cali
fornia or Mexico. He called the country
Fusang, from the name of an abun
dant plant, Mexican maguey or Amcri
can aloe lie described gold, silver
copper and other finds made. e."-Tacoma
Daily News.
BIRDS OF THE GRASS LANDS.
They Are Distinct From Those That Live
| Amou & the Trees.
} Every boy who has indulged the nat
ural propensity to haunt running
streams and wild delectabie places, Il
pursue shy birds and pry into the Sc
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