Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-05-14

height rise one either side of the main crater
then sheer drop of several thousand feet of sui
phur-coated rock to the highest signs of vegeta-
ton Below this on the Pacific slopes stretch
beautiful rolling l1anos or steppes lower and
lower. on down to the palm fringed coast line. :
Somewhere on these immense slopes lies the
lost mine of the Indians "TisfngafD known to
and worked by the1early Spanish settlers. who
changed its name to La Estrela," Mine of the
Star =.er>5 7gL5 IL rf s4sa7 80 -
During the year1sss-s4. in going through the
archives at Cartago,s Costa RIGA, some official doc
uments pertaining to. this mine were found and
permission was obtained from the Costa Rican
government for their publication. Shortly there
after company was formed in Carriage to send
out exploring parties, and although considerable
time and money were wasted and several lives
lost In an endeavor to locate this mine. indica
tons OF its whereabouts found. Hsk
Reprints of some of the documents referred to
have come into the hands of the writer, in which
is preserved the old style Spanish in which they
were originally written during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. TRANSACTIONS of these pa
pers have been made and the information con-
tanned therein summarized, to which have been
added data obtained through personal acquaint
ance with the country described. During last
year an unsuccessful attempt made by the
writer to ascend the highest crater of the Chiri-
qui volcano for the purpose of verifying certain
information purported to have been secured in
the year 1906 from this point and pertaining to
the Tisingal mine. During the dry season of this
year second attempt will probably be made.
Among the documents consulted Is one that
literally translated. reads as follows: ~ 81
Within the limits of the department of Chiri
qui, contiguous to the Republic of Costa Rica,
exist places rich In gold, known by the names of
Tisingal. Quebrada Ancha. Quebrada de Orc and
others quite important The first of these places
was explored some time ago by Spanish colony,
which In the year 1901 founded the cityo of Com
cepcion de la Estrela. near this mime of great
wealth The excessive stinginess of the conquer
ors reduced the Indians of the locality con-
dtion of slaves they being the Spa nfsh-
to work. mining the of thesTfsingalzsThese
Indians became tfredAof the excessiv4 worR and
bad treatment and became desperate. In the year
1911 they revolted against their oppressors and
extermnatsd them; -but- -Spaniards--at-the-
place of the mutiny again compelled the Indians
to resume the working of the mine and made
most eliminated the Indians from this stretch of
country e
-on the twenty-eiehth of September some
years after these happenings thesIndians re
the life of every foreigner living in the country;
and not only this but. carrying stones from dis
tant localities they covered and destroyed, all
traces of the workings OF the mines. and they
also RACED all houses and churches belonging to
| the Spaniards- The only traces remaining of
these ancient buildings today are the foundations
| OF the church and bell belonging to it.
AT last the news of the new rebellion reached
Carriage in COSTA Rica, where 1mnedate prepas
rations were made for revenge, 1t is known that
at the beginning of the year RIO the government
at Carriage sent 200 by the way of Boruca
and Tus TO San Jose Cabecar, town to the east
/ about Is leagues from Eoncepcion[ Thisi expedE
ton took 500 Indians of both sexes prisoners and
reduced them to "a state of slavery such
consigned them the inha around about
Carriage upon their return to that place--rThese
prisoners and all other Indians they alene
the way were IA assacred shortly thereafter9 .
| From that time -au Indians <liv1ng in the
mountains in an directions up toa distance of 10
leagues turned btter-enemies OF the foreigners
and up to a few years ago would have nothing to
+ do with the white races Due to these events all
traces of the villages of Turrialba Tufsg Atirro
San jose Cabecar ana sothee PLACES fhaf lay on
the routeFto Copcepciun de - EstTella and 9isin@
with tie ninesswere covered -~ithH brush ana
completely destroyed that after 40 years in
Cs<tago knowledge be obtained to
tie locality of the Estrella and practically no
| person living knew had seen the mines at