The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
CHAPTER XII.
The Land of Dead Things.

CHAPTER XII.
The Land of Dead Things.
r. ORTIZ to the land of dead things,
through the cities that are for
gotten, Jared Dick Lane. Tricked
by his friend. with the women he loved
lost to him, he wandered onward
Automatically he took up again his
quest for buried treasure. That which,
in the flush of youthful enthusiasm and
roseate prospects of life and love had
seized him as a passion was o
settled habit. And fortunately so, for
it kept him from going mad. He had
no thought of g~ain--only the achieve
ment of a fixed purpose, a monoInaftR4s
With this impulse was conjoined q
more volitional motive-he wished TO
himself upon the Apaches, and
chiefly upon the renegade Mckee, whom
he supposed still to be with them
Somehow he blamed him, rather than
Jack Payson, as being the chief cause
OF his miseries. IF he had not stolen
the buried gold, I would have returned
in time" he muttered. HE is at the
bottom of all this. AS l walked away
from Jack in the garden. I felt as II it
was Mckee that was following me with
his black, snaky eyes :.
Accordingly Dick directed his wav
70 a region ren,ted to he hotb. rich A
buried treasure and infested Nv hostile
Tndians
The fable Of tbe o,,ivirs the rolder
citv marked now nv the ruins Of the
piro pueblo of Tabira south Of The
salt danos;ts ~ Abs Manzaro a. ali,
notent in Ar;zona and Nav Mexicn to
inra Tho treasure seekar Three hun
drad ana fftv wears apo ~ ,rsn,rsd 4
,oarch aoross he n,ains that DWARF
the fauous r,arch If tbe creets ~ n,
SEQ II led 10 the rxnloration OF tn
ana r-aIfornia hsfor. IN
Anglo-saxon s~ettlers had nenetrated
baIf > b,,narsd miles FROM he Atlantic
coast rrhe citias ore ,forrotten today
r,a tr,ha ,y,,io,, eay,e a. a MANS nrove5
- he ,,tte, b.rhar;ans eaters ~ raw
,oeat c1.d onIv in s,.ins v,ithout roId
knouy;ng nothing of ,he arts. Teton
non,ads anderins tbrougl, Kansas
vet each decade since witnesses = re-
,;,,a, ~ a u,onderf,,I story ~ the I,,ried
tr,s,,ras ~ tba crard o,,;v;rn
The r,vth ORIGINATED IN. Nev Mexieo
in 15Ao Antonio Az Mendoza was tho
vicoro,, ne New sna,n Having nracti-
calv concusred t1,e New. world the
.ava,turors who formed his co,,rt.
he, ins M 6ebt;nv RI do with common
crrr,ies bev.r Ia hact eact, other
on,or,rno,v FOR the v;cernv gro Mar
cos discoyerad New Mexico and
Ar;zone catberipo tbe do,1r;,+v
sr,orasr,sn togetbar turned
thoa, ansr ~ tha hr;,l,art sold;ar ana
ov,,Iorer Francisco vasonez de FOR
onado, with strict orders to get them
as far away from the viceroy as he
could. and then lose them.
Coronado and his band were the first
to see the Grand Canon of the Colorado.
in the latter weeks of 1910 they we're
in the town of Tiguex. AS they we're
less welcome than the modern tourists.
who are now preyed upon where these
proved the natives sent them on to the
pueblo of the Pecos. Mendoza had sent
Coronado into New Mexico on the
strength of the trimmings of the myth
of the "Seven Cities of Cibola." The
tabled cities of gold proved to be peace
full settlements. Coronado attempted
ia lose his c1ltthroats by having them
settle In the unit A plains Indian,
captive among the Peeos. changed his
plans. and led him to undertake. his
wonderful march. The Pccos wished to
get rid of the guests. so they concocted
a marvellous story of buried treasures.
and made the poor captive father 1t.
To the gold chasers the captive was
known as 1.-THE Turk his head being
shaven and adorned only with a scalp
lock. a custom noticeable because of it's
variance from that OF the 1ong-haired
Pueblos.
s.1-ho r,,rb. .o,d or a tribe 90 -,la;ns-
,,o, who had q great store IF t1e vel
Low, snhs+ance The,, a,ars cal,ed ths
ouivira IIa u,o,ta load thor, ~ tl,a
annio,t pockefe,,ers roronado nut
I,i,,, ~ tho hasd of his hand and fol-
i,,rod hi,, nsstu,ar ri over tl,s Mains
Eo,. ,,,o,,tbs tf,o,, ,,ioddod aftar hin, the
Ind;an tr,,inr ~ loso coronada and
that ,.aiisnt r,orrior e-ndeayori,v "a
ohe,- orJsrs ~ ..s+sse, h,s ha,d Abo,,t
tbe ,niddlo If what ia now the Indian
Coronado heean ~ s,,snect