Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-09

tion and their reports fell infinitely short of sa
the worldwide demand for more details. The
news spread to Morocco and English author
and traveller, Fellow Of the Royal Geographical
Society, who was more interested in the archaeo
logical research In that section than in the
cry OF the vast treasures, tried through the Lon
don papers to get definite data, but the mat
ter had been forgotten by that time treated
a joke
It months before the truth forthcoming
Then it found that Spaulding, bringing the two
IFibesmen had arrived In Bokhara from Samar-
cand by caravan from Kashgar and that the
derfuI find approximately sixty miles north
east of the Kashmir border instead of Bokhara,
the way to Yarkand In the Chinese portion Of
Tur6estan; in other words. in the heart OF almost
unexplored and unknown Asia. Bokhara the
Grst point of touch with the outside world. and
Spaulding had come there to raise money and
organize expedition. This he had little trou-
Bile in doing. for all that part Of the world has
been dreaming for centuries of the recovery of
the treasures of the Khans. He last heard
from three years ago and II is now believed that
he and the with him died somewhere in the
wIlds of the Dapsang.
The unadorned tale Of the adventure of the
two hillmen reads like chapter from the Arab
fan Nights" The two belonged to q trading
caravan and, being dissatisfied left 1t and set
out for Yarkand which is a town on the Yarkand
river, of the main tributaries of the Tarim,
mighty stream draining region twice the size
of the state Of Texas and emptying into the Lob
Nor, which has visible outlet They got lost
In the mountains and turned into trail hewn
In the rock wide enough for but two men to pass
abreast and, travelling for some time along the
defile they came to great with number
OF huge images In row before the door
The entrance was square, o1en portal and
within series of tombs each with its peck
cts In the rock filled with many objects OF great
win al hot
precious stones to load sixty camels yet all that
they could bring away with them was what they
could put into the receptacles of their clothing
and many of these they lost before they found
again the regular route to Yarkand They made
careful observations OF the trail and left heaps
of stones to mark 1t to a certainty Even when
dehie, they came to a greta with number
of the value of their find
When discovered by spaulding he had great
difficulty in persuading them to go with him. He
feared to organize an expedition in Yarkand,
they reached the marker Gown they had no idea
there was danger of his being murdered and
robbed by the halfsavage he would have had
TO employ There many persons in the re-
gion who believe that he found the tombs secured
a portion of the treasure. went into the Brit
ish Indian state of Nepal and robbed and
murdered there, as many very large stones and
pieces of Tartar-worked gold have been coming
out of that state in the past two years without
any adequate source being ascribed to them
1t is just south of the region described that
the Karakoram Mountains lie but where is the
lost city Of Caracarum or Karakoram the an
Gent capital of the great Tartar state? Where
the enormous treasures lost at the time of it's
destruction? History shows that It was a very
large stonebuilt city, that 1t stood within sight
at least. of the mountains that bear its name and
that 1t was the wealthiest Of all the cities of cen
trail Asia. Marco Polo visited it on his famous
Journey about 1892 A D. and on his return to
Europe described it in detail to his chronicler
friend Rusticano.
Eight hundred years ago It was the capital Of
the Tartar Empire and literally reeked with
wealth. all established under the financial genius
of that strange. halfmythicsl character Presbvter
or Prester John. Marco Polo told of rooms a.
which the decorations were heavy embossfnes IN
gold and silver set with great Jewels and nj.
references show that he was surfeited with The
sight of the wealth Displayed
The city fell before the assaults Of the wild
troops of the ambitious and ruthless TImcar .,
Tm-Khan. Previous to the attack all the +roos,,.,
that could be assembled put under tho rrsa
stairway In the center of the city ana when n,