Arizona republican., 1910-10-16

made by man. The Casa Grande near
Florence, is the ruin of a building seven
stories in height and the crumbled re-
mains of the ends of the timbers which
formed the floor supports are still in
evidence in the ancient walls. Burial
mounds have been opened in which
were found stone and copper tools and
utensils and pottery, some of which
had upon it cuneiform characters that
were evidently the words of characters
of a language lost and gone, which no
scholar was able to reconstruct.
The puzzle has been to determine
what became of this prehistoric race,
which existed at a period of time 50
remote that the people who built the
pyramids of Egypt forty centuries ago
were recent in comparison. 1t was
conjectured by some scientists that
successive years of drouth and intense
heat caused the Aztecs TO emigrate To
North Dakota. Others have claimed
that they were murdered or driven out
by the Apache Indians, who lacked the
civilization necessary to enable them to
avail themselves of the possessions of
those whom they conquered, and others
I y
this portion of the world a prehistoric
| lick with its prehistoric tail and incin-
Grated every living thing, and swept
the ashes of the people from the face
OF the earth. A more plasible explana-
tion of the disappearance Of the pre-
Histories and the return of Arizona 10
| desolation $500 years ago is now Of
| fered by Professor Muley AL Hasan of
| Cairo Ill. The professor, who is Il
| learned Psychologist, was travelling to
the Pacific coast during his summer
vacation. When the ears stopped at
Ash Fork for dinner the professor, be-
| ing economically inclined, patronized
the lunch counter He noticed that
the baked beans We're served from a
large earthen pot on which were some
curious characters Investigation
showed that this vessel had been re
Gently unearthed from an Aztec mound
and the finder had hold it to the res
taurant man for a bean pot. The pro-
feSsor purchased the pot-after the
baked beans were emptied from it
and carried il home with him. COmpar-
ing the characters on the pot with
those on an Egyptian Obelisk-of which
the professor had photographs-he
was able to offer a solution of the
mystery. The professor SAYS that
about sixty centuries before the Chris
tan era the salt river valley contained
a population of over 100000. with i
seat of government at what is now Ky
rene. The government was a cOnglom-
crate theOratic, autocratic, democratic
institution. the laws of which were
made by a sort of amphictyonic coun-
ell and administered by ruler called
the Grand Hiymuckamuck This ruler
was elected every seven years, and,
unlike Roosevelt or Diaz, was disquali-
fled for reelection. 1t happened that
there were several distinguished pre-
Histories whose ambitions were too
eager to make them willing to await
their turns, so they persuaded the peo-
pie to adopt into their constitution the
initiative, the referendum and the re-
call. which in their uncouth Aztec
phrase they named the Kumback. the
Kersmash and the Kibosh. The Kun
back was first placed in operation, and
six weeks after the installation of the
last constitutional Hiyamuckamuck he
was recalled by the people and his sue
cessor chosen. This successor, not |
proposing to take similar chances of |
a short term, Immediately invoked the |
Kersmash for the repeal of the Kun !
back, by which a recall could be had |
and invoked it successfully The can
didates who had failed to make the re- !
call loud enough to call them into Of |
flee now induced - per cent of the |
voters to propose a Kibosh or initiative, !
by which the entire government was to |
be abolished, taxes were to be dis |
pensed with, and every man was to be |
permitted to govern himself. by him |
self, for himself. The Kibosh was sue
cessful, and Immediately the long |
headed property owning prehistOrites |
began to sell out and move out. These |
were followed by others, and these by |
others again until the country was de-
serted. Some went to Colorado, where
their descendants elected Simon Gug-
genheim United States senator. Others
went to France and founded the Pin
chOt family, and others yet crossed the
Colorado river into California, and
Tommy Woolwine is one of the results
of their exodus.
And prehistoric Arizona returned to
aridity and silence for over 5000 years
until now. and now, unheedng the
warning inscribed on the prehistoric |.
pot, some of her statesmen are trying
to repeat the performance of B. C. Il
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