The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-08-11
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OA4AX In ~ III
The country Il fertile and well cult
vated, growing wheat, maize, rice, bar
ley and FAX. In its eastern districts. Nv
erywhere are great masses Of trees, vii
lows, mulberries, poplars. Al far 40 tn,
eye can reach are fields under cultivation
irrigated By numerous canals, also greer
helds, In which are hoaks Of sheep, 1
country half Normandy, half Provence
were It not for the mountains Of PamiI
ON the horizon. But this portion Of Kach
garia was terribly ravagsd By war when
IT. people were struggling for indepsnd
ence. The land flowed with blood, and
along By the railroad the ground d, dot.
tds with tumuli beneath which ars
buried the victims Of their patriotism.
But did not come to Central Asia ia
travel 40 II were In France. Novelty!
Novelty The unforeseen The appall.
insl
It was without the shadow q an &C.
eident, and after q particularly Ans run,
that We entered Yarkand Station at four
o'clock In the afternoon.
A few Chinese passengers alighted at
xarkand, and gave place to others exact
" Ike them-among others q score Of
coones-and We started again at 6
O'Clock In the evening. During the night
We ran the three hundred and fifty kilo-
meters which separate Yarkand from
Kothan.
A visit paid to the front van showed
me that the box was still In the same
place. A certain snoring proved that
Ainko was inside a. usual, and sleeping
peacefully. did not care to wake him,
and left him to dream Of his adorable
Roumanian.
In the morning Popof told me that the
train, which was now travelling about a.
last a. an omnibus, had passed Khar-
ealik, the junction for the Kilian and
Tong branches. The night had been
cold. for We are still at an altitude Of
loo meters. Leaving Guma Station, the
line runs due east and west. following
the thirty-seventh parallel, the same
which traverses It In Europe, Seville,
Syracuse and Athens.
We sighted only one stream Of impor-
lance, the Karakash, on which appeared
few drifting RATS, and files Of horses
and asses at the fords between the pebbly
banks. The railroad crosses It about a
hundred kilometers from Khotan, where
We arrived at 8 o'clock In the morning.
Two hours to stop, and a. the town
may give me q foretaste of the cities of
China, resolve to take q run through It.
A. we were about to board the car
lgain. l saw Popof running toward me,
'houting:
Monsieur Bombarnac!''
What Il the matter, Popofr'
"A telegraph messenger asked me II
here was any one belonging to the |
Twentieth Century ON the train"
"A telegraph msssensert
Yes, and on my replying In the af. |
lrmative, he gave me this telegram for
or you"
Give It me! give It mer'
ssise the telegram, which has been
Waiting for me some days. IL It a reply
o my wire sent from Merv, relative to |
he mandarin Yen Louf
l open It. I read II, and It falls from
ny hand. This 10 what 1t said:
Claudius Bombsrnac, Correspondent |
Twentieth Century, Khotan, Chinese |
Turkestan:
1T h not the corpse Of mandarin
hat the train 10 taking to Pekin, but
he imperial treasure, value fifteen mill
pns, sent from Persia to China, as an
ounced In the Paris newspapers eight
ays ago; endeavor to be better informed
or the fufure"