The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-14
OF PREHISTORIC MAN
DR.. E. s. CURRY FINDS EVIL
DENCES IN INDIAN co., NTRY.
Has Searched Fifty Years-Records
OF a Race That Lived 5000
Years Before the Deluge In
scribed on Stone.

The 60.000-year-old prehistoric man
found recently near Lansing. kas., has
double. At least, he was not lonesome
on earth. 1t would seem. According to a
writer in The Wagner Record there is
inscribed on the rocks and cliffs Of the
Indian Territory and carved on tablets
buried beneath the prairies, the history
Of a people who lived in a high state of
civilization 5000 years before the deluge.
says DR.. E. s. Curry. minister, author
and achaeologist. For fifty years the au-
thority for this statement has spent his
life In the study and research of Indian
tradition as recorded in the hieroglyphics
carved on rocks by the aboriginal histo-
rians. Today they are as ineligible to
MIN as the English alphabet is to the or
binary scholar. He has just concluded
explorations in the territory hills near
here where numerous records were found
in good state Of preservation. Now he
considers that he has sufficient data of
this prehistoric race to compile -laS COM
plete history of their national life The
discovery of a new record near Shelsea
and Henryetta in the Indian Territory. Is
an additional proof of the correctness Of
DR.. Currys TRANSACTIONS. and he will soon
translate the hundreds of pages of hier-
oglyphics which he has copied in the last
fifty years.
The successive chapters of DR.. Curry's
works are carved on rocks In nineteen
States and two of the provinces of Can
ada. The closing chapter is found In the
to DR.. Curry when. as a boy, he lived
among the Chippewa Indians in Canada.
His family had won the confidence or
the Indians through years spent In mis-
sionary work among them. The chiefs
of the tribe and their medicine men fas-
cinated the boy with recitals of their
traditions. His insistence on knowing
more of their warriors and the Great
Spirit of the red man won him the name
Ah-yah-be1wa-dsn lever pleading voice.)
At Curry tanoht road the HER
oglyphics, which had survived the ages.
on the faces of nearby cliffs, and found
that they referred to other records in va
rious parts of the country. Later he was
ordained minister by the Congregation
al Church and assigned to missionary
work among the Indians. 1t was then
that he undertook to prove the correct
ness of the medicine mans Interpretation
Of the symbolic figures carved on the
Canadian bluf. They referred to another
record, giving the exact distance and di-
rection. Following the course directed.
DR.. Curry found the records at the points
designated, although people who had lived
for years within a stones throw OF the
cliff on which 1t was inscribed were in ig-
norance Of its existence. A thick growth
of moss and .ichens obscured it from
view.
This record in turn referred to another
situated in Michigan, which was found
at the point indicated. Each record told
OF aonther. DR.. Curry. employing sew
eral assistants, spent years in finding
them. Some of them mad been partly de-
stroyed, by the naturg process of timc.
others by man, but at every point indi-
Gated their existence at one time was
proven. In Arkansas a missing chapter
was rescued from milldam; near Pop
| lar Bluff a connecting link was found
| lodged in the fork of an oak tree whittier
| II had been blown by a quarry blast.
The trials only served as an incentive,
and year after year, many times suffering
| from the greatest privation, DR.. Curry
| has searched them out. One record told
| of another In California. Curry. through
| illness, was prevented from going after
| It. He had never been in California, yet
| gave such an accurate description of Its
| location that an assistant who was sent
| found 1t without difficulty.
| These records have led the student into
| the Indian Territory, where now, 68 years
| old, he has completed his work and will
| tell the story of the wonderful people
| whom he alleges antedated the deluge by
| centuries
| Three great nations. he claims. inhab-
| tied the North American continent and
| he says that they have left inscribed on
| impershable rock a complete history OF
| the creation and the deluge. He says
that they prove the Biblical account and
| are much more complete. DR.. Curry has
| been recognized by the Smithsonian In
| stitution and the Archaeological Society
| of Washington. An effort will be made
| to obtain Government assistance in pre-
| serving the records he has discovered.