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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-04
THE MARKETS,

Portland.
Wheat-Track prices: Club, 79c:
bluestem, 83c; red Russian, 78c.
Barley-Feed, SGT per ton.
Oats-No. 1 white, $31 per ton.
Hay-Timothy, valley, SIG; alfalfa,
$14.
Butter-Creamery, 36c.
Eggs-Ranch, SIC.
Hops-1911 crop, 44c; 1910, nomi-
nal; contracts, Csc.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 9@16c;
Willamette Valley, 15@17c.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-04

Sharon, N. D.-Train No. 8, of the
Great Northern railway, the Oregon
ian," was wrecked four miles west of
Finley with a loss of six known dead
and Is injured. The wreck was due
to a broken rail
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Seattle.

Wheat-Bluestem, Sic; club, 78c;
red Russian, TIC.
Barley-$35 per ton.
Oats-$30 per ton.
Eggs-Ranch, soc.
Butter-Creamery, CSC.
Hay-Timothy. SIC per ton.
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The Original Bull Moose
. BY s. P. TAMPLOCK

was shot out vertically to the height of severa- yards. This and similar unusual phenrnena led them to conclude that the norti coast of the sea of Marmora, of the pardanelles, and of the Bosphorus lies directly over the earthquake center whih in prehistoric times here rent E'u- ropl and Asia in twain. A large number offlew chasms were discovered, and rear Msriophyto hot springs have appeared. A. Servian geologist last week was let down two hundred foot rope into one oi these chasms but he saw no sign of the gulf coming to an end, and was threatened with suffocation by sulphur GUS gases Another phenomenon was that rom Rhodostro to Gallipoli, a distance of 50 miles, the sea was covered with an ominous, shiny film. This was petroleum from the under world. Measurements made by two Roumanian geologists after the first earthquake showed that the whole country between Heraclitsa and Audimion is sinking; and that the site of Myriophyto, which was itself entirely destroyed by the earthquake, has fallen feet
 The latest examinations show that these seismic changes affected slightly the south coast of Marmora: also the east part of the north coast and extend to the Bos- phorus, where constantinople stands. These examinations are being made by the Austrian seismologist Hedemeyer. Hedemeyer writes that "all the threaten ing seismic phenomena observed near M}tiophyto to apply to eastern parts including Silivra, San Stefano and Con stantinople itself. It is only a question of mtensity. Constantinople itself is sinking and it is sinking unequally. This sinking caused th fects recently discovered in the moscue Santa Sophia. Constanti- nople ss gically falls into two parts, dividef lie Golden Horn. The vest nartf A0pA proper) is sinking more rap idly l.i Salata, Pera and the rorth- eas burhs. But even parts sAsA f tb .alden Horn are doomed, As Il su Dolma Bastsche and lrs an. asr dig kiosk. and the who 'is lets
 qlf.n chauteaux Europ4 Ne an .h 'ierake region, and mere
 apee Hat they have not m the ies lhquake. As it of the
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coast of Marmora, from the lighthouse
 by quaint Sedil Bahr on the Hellespont
 to the Bosphorus, where the imperial city
 lies is threatened with death. That has long heen suspected, but investiga ions made since the great earthquake of Au- gust 9 have now made it certain. This earthquake. though it passed unreported
 was one of the greatest in constantino- ples history. Thirty small towns and yil- lages on Marmora's shores were destroyed and 1150O0 persons left without rccfs. Within his modest means the charitable, bloody-minded Turk provided for the suf- ferers-Greek Giaours though they were; and Greeks all over the world sent quick help. No one else took note of the earth quake. The minor earthquake which fol- lowed the cataclysm of August was felt in Constantinople itself. It came also from the north coast of Marmora, and it
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Venice was doomed to subside into the waves while Istamboul, built on eternal rock, would outlast all but Allahl' And now Venice is not perishing while It's great rival is: If an earthquake does not destroy the city then subsistence will It may take a thousand years, 1t may take a day. But it is certain that thousand years hence all the present lower levels Of Constantinople. including the Bospho- rus palaces. will have sunk beneath the sea-"
 So it is all t'-e same today whether Turk or Slav win. Neither will keep for- ever the new Rome. And it appears that the Dorian colonists who built Byzantion two thousand five hundred years ago were told truly by their augur that "ali the peoples will strive for this city, but it is destined to belong to none"
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Euphrates, and so that of old India along the banks of the Ganges
 It was somewhat the same in Central America. The continent here consists of backbone of mountains, with narrow strip of lowlands along the coast. The Motagua river flows 9ut of the mountains in Guatemala, and 1t has a valley about five miles wide run ming from this backbone to the sea The mountains are so situated that they catch the water-laden winds of the Caribbean and give 1t heavy rain fall At the same time they shelter it from the winds and make it trop- ieal paradise.
 The Home of the Mayans
 This paradise was the Garden of Eden of this nation a thousand years ago It's people were the Mayans. They conquered the jungle and lived here no one knows how long, until in time they were conquered by the wilder tribes. and the Jungle again came into it's own.
 The exact dates of these events are unknown It was probably a thousand years ago when the jungle again re- sumed its sway and from then until now nature has reigned supreme. It s only during the past century that any one has known that a civiltzation ever existed here. And it is only now, when
 railroad mas neen cut tHfouBh to Ste
 the highlands and wlkn the Amer iean fruit men have beguh to cut down the trees and make theit banana plan F tations, that any idea of the extent of that civilization has corhe to be known Thra. a ieEsir hf raii inisa hya ths EEaaasss as nsl sH as 4 four-storv house, and for forty miles along the hills on one side of the valley were found graves with walls made oi smooth round stones, brought from the creeks and the rivers. On the other side of the Motagua mounds of greater height were discovered, and in them pieces Of utensils of various kinds. There were also pieces of jade and obsidian.
 It is now known that the ruins are scat tored over an area of about 100000 acres, and that they include not only these grave mounds, but mighty monuments and the remains of a great city.
 The City of Quirigua
 Our first knowledge of this city came anout seven years ago, when the Ste- phens expedition went through Central Alnerica. and a man named Catherwood saw some of the ruins. We learned more about it in 1883, when Alfred P Maudsley made his way through this region and photographed some of the monuments.
 The real work of excavation, however was begun just about two years age when the St. Louis Society of the Ar theological Institute decided to do some work in Guatemala and at the instance of Victor M. Cutter, manager of the Guatemala division of the United Friiit Company. came to Qurigua and began their work here. The United Fruit Com
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pany has aided them in their work, granting them seventy-five acres of land which contained the most important parts of the ruined city, and forming what is to be known as Quirigua Park.
 It is in that tract that the excavations are now going on. They are under the charge of Dr. Edgar l.. Hewett and Prof. Sylvanus c. Morley who have gangs of natives at work. They are now uneqv- ering what was once the great temple city of the Mayan, and they have all ready cleared away the Jungle over a great part of the tract. They have cut down mahogany and other trees, and are now digging up monuments so gigantic that they remind one of the mighty statues of the upper Nile.
 Thirtee aashss AanssFsss
 Before l M tiH le- me tell ya at tlS Htl
 mighty ents Thets
 them which tafe Hefft fitc
 cred. althuHgh sefns ffH
 deep in HH earff fhrs7
 nonoli oN seof
 from 20 to 80 rect niss ,,+,4fa yE sat.la must weigh many t6. Then srelt figures stand right j cha ssns1e lffr for instance, is sur t0 te sa set in length. It rise 70 fecl h he ground and it is s4a fl txtsnd $ east IF feet below it esrs Hsr the Tower of Pise hu Il Haa ,bably straight wher q crectti
 Another rclulfe s ea feet in height and four act sr diameter; and third mHlrlot sforb Vh1ch ] pho tographe9 Wa aa fan t cireumfer- ence. All of C re naHs aynts are cov- cred Wit % iaEH aad the archeolo- gists have lslatA one of the writ ings iHaH li lhas believe them to have eea iffs nlsHg abouA 500 years after en naf n that tase they woeld easN years oldA
 a nasifr lg Civilization
 VT aiHiQH Q Reconstruct ! civili- sation NHfn / has nothing huf stones tel tha ny. So far the archeol- 0Hisia 1eff not gotten much beyond iof of the dates aud they solutely sure of them They h. ie monuments to be argely ielisl and that the City of Quirigua vas temple city and the place of worship of many people.
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l.oa Allnates, QautemaIe

Los Alnates, Guatemala. \ HAVE you ever heard of Quirigua?
 Seven hundred years before Co., \ 1 Iunbus discovered America, when our ancestors of northern Europe were Irving in huts, eating with their fingers and sleeping on straw, it was the most civilized place on the western hemis- phsre. It had it's pyramids and .ts pal aees, it's tarnples and it's novels. It had men who understood fine masonry and artists who did wonderful carving. It was the capital of a great population, which filled the valley in which I am vyriting-a valley which in it's fertility is equal to that of the Nile, the Ganges, the Amazon or the Kongo.
 The Valley of the Motagua
 Today this valley is covered with jun gle. Palm trees of a hundred varieties wave Nbeir fanlike leaves over it, and aianas, fre-n- the snickness of your finger 1o that of your leg, bind the great trees together. Mixed with the palms are ma hoganies and other hardwoods, so that the vegetation is almost impenetrable. The undergrowth is dense and it is a good woodsman who can cut his way for Two miles through the jungle inside of twelve hours. The soil and climate
 such that tho clearing of today reAa sli.. forest within a few years a narts wili shoot up to from a do aa 8 ssHa4Iu feet in the course of si1 aaaths At tho same time tl;e ss, $ .ss .eg- citation is rapid Gu I taNnNeyl 1t rots ku quickly that toip i fcn Anonths the Hh-1llrr tTeeF e.Nf1 5f5ssss s Inc aid os b. Vas Ar sNof ants, tho larger ses iaft ban a lew years. tof this ssan. the Noodwork or thdt ~H tion has fbfg since passed
 a m stonewc*as remains, and with s h. ,,ast thirE or forty months tns acan archeoJ5gists have been dig
 ng if out of the jungle and trying to discover -tiic. character of the people who lived there a thousand and more years sgo What they have found and what aey are doing I shall tell you further or n this letter.
 Where the Ruins Lie
 But first let me give the location [ ioubt whether many of you have ever saesrd of the Motagua river and of this great Garden of Eden known as the Hotagua valley. It was we'll fitted for he home of great people. If you re- member your history you will find that iie first civilizations have sprung up A.pe valleys The soil there is rich and he river makes it easy to carry the rcducts from, one place to another. The fight for sod is not hard. and the people have lsure to cultivate the sentler arts. other peoples come to btiy of their abundance Commerce fol- lows and in time civilization grows. Sc the civilization of Egypt sprang up in the valley of the Nile; so that of Baby Ion and Nineveh in the delta of the
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The leaning monu Quirgua thirty feet tall

dore Roosevelt. The open mouth shows great teeth and a joyful grin is seen at the corners. The archeologists here say that this Is the Simon-pure origin of the Roosevelt smile, It proves the antiquity of the genealogical tree of our former President, and it may be that when the cartoons of the man who heads the bull moose party are exhumed from the debris of a thos years hence the archeolo- gists as iture may connect the two in ths t5ea narrative of past civiliza-
 ke the Chinese
 cthaf 1UuIf 1ts make me think of the TartaFa fiieV nave Tartar features, and thrv od no a4like the giants in stone wicn ard the Ming tombs at Ranking aud naat ahe Nanko pass through the
 ah rs Nrinc F- o0--fzii
 deihees dH a is tag
 E Ha a3,s nCHa ih= l.Alnesc sa ioaHei4 es s iirsn hy esfE4 ataae trf as In sfrug tasts sf
 t saa Cpe a q '1e!'le hsYe sefn llefs 9u,sit tHt' ii nat5 tnitse Naieh apee1 twenty .o.l., and $ least elgnt rect in height. It is entirely covered with biero- glyphics and is one great mass of carv- ing.
 How the Monuments Were Built
 The monuments which surroand the ancient city of Quirigua are sad to be the largest of their kind upon tie Ameri- can continent and the wondtr is how the people of those ancient tmes could have lifted such enormous weights. We have no record that they bad beasts or burden, and machinery WIS at yet un- invented. They probably used levers, pulieys and cables and rolled the stones into place upon inclved planes. There are evidences that tbs great stones were brought down upon rafts at the time of tho floods. and the remains of an ancient canal Is shown. The stone itself is such that it hardens with age, being compara- lively soft when it comes from the quar- Iy, and the carving may have been done with stone axes and stone chisels, aid- ed by knives of obsidian.
 In Quirigua City
 |, So much for the monuments about Quirlgua. Now let us look at the main part of the city. I found the men working there when I visited 1t yes
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l can only give you the note which have made of the monuments as they stood before me. What they mean, you must figure out for yourself Here. for instance Is a great stone column which rises eight feet out of the earth and extends many feet below the surface It is about 10 feet vide and the whole is co4vered with carving On one side is woman's fgurd I take my tape measure and find that the face is about a foot thick. It Is evidently that of queen for the head has a crown. and in the ladys ears are plugs, which re mind me of the women of Burma, ap wear great plugs in their ears
 The lady who sat as a modei lor EHis enFravins may have bee gaa s.4naHss m sEa aH eniv faag cor piue m8
 near found anu
 aumelt is
 eieD tfais
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 We yai- 3sth that hat sa fai and ea co stone which 1 a oman fl on one side and that azarKss the other. This is like so fsbe Last Indian monu- ments It ass one worder whether the ancestor ltSS pSopf NiN iiOe e'i'N from Asia.
 still farther on is the/ieading monu- ment of which I have ypoken. It is as high as two story hoyse, and has gi- gantic head carved ut near the top. The face is of wondrfu1 workmanship. and it seems as thoggh the thing might talk. The eyes arc fat and bulgy. the nose is that of a Jew the forehead is low, and tue beard, which hides the chin. is like that which one sees on the stat ues of the Egyptian kings. The great ears on eacB side of the face are half hidden by phigs Of jade, and the features remind uSyof those of the Assyrians or Egyptians.
 The Original Bull Moose
 strangerlthan all these. however is the monument which has been recently ex- humed is great stone upon which, in alto-relisvo, is carved great round face which bears the happy expression So often seen in the cartoons of Theo-
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Constmtinop1e Doomed to Sink Beneath the Sea

killed only 20 pefsons. But in the towns of Periostatis, AEriophyto and Ganos all that was spared by the first earthquake tumbled down. The small loss of life was due to thk fact that people were sleeping in thd open air or in timber emergency houses. The earthquake was so violent that dven the emergency houses as we'll as thel temporary baking ovens put up by the charitable. blood thirsty Turk were destroyed. Even now many thousands are wandering about almost naked and starving. Their plight is SO bad that they almost pray that the last and overwhelming earthquake which the geologists predict may put an end to their misery.
 Geologists who have investigated these earthquakes have come to some strong conclusions. They found that on August a pile driven deep into the ground
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Fraak Carpenter On the Ruins Of Qur'gua
Amid the ruined temples Of.the grand plaza

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Constantinople, November 16.-(speciaL) Al Europe is ready to fight for peerless Ccnstantinople; yet Constantinople is doomed. In the end none will have it, neither Turk. nor Greek. nor Bulgar, nor Serb, nor Russ. And it appears that all the Thracians, Avares, Persians, Arabs. Knights of the Cross and Venetians who fought for it in the past fought for it in vain. There is to be no Constantinople. Earthquakes are shaking it; landslides are undermining it; and some day when the last northern invaders descend the rose-clad Rhodopes and look for the city of Justinian and Solyman the Magnificent lthey will find it no more. It's cloud caped towers, it's gorgeous kiosks, min .arets. serais and cypress shadowed tombs will have perished and left not a wreck behind.
 So say the geologists. The whole north
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outlying buildings and mosques at Yildiz have had to have work done to their foundations. The accusation is made that this was the result Of bad building but there is no doubt that serious subsi- dences are taking place.
 Herr Hedemeyer examined the foanda- tions of the Seraskiarat buildings in stambul. and says there are here also signs of an uneven sinking. And he con- cludes. .Constantinople is doomed.' There is double irony here. At one time the Turks themselves looked on Venice, the wave-girdled, as the doomed city. and boasted of their own city as a citadel of strength. The grand vizier Mahommed Sokolli. the ambitious favorite of Sultan Selim IT, reported to his master that the republic of Venice would have to cease making incessant war on Turkey, because
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One of Bunyan's Books

From the Pall Mall Gazette.
 It is not often that book from the library of John Bunyan is offered for sale. Such an one is, however, now on the market, and the secondhand bookseller in St. Martins Court who prices it in. his catalogue at ese does not seem to have overrated it's value. Its authentici- ty seems undoubted.
 The book is Three Tracts by Isaac Ambrose 1850. It has been submitted to the curator of the Bunyan Museum tBedford), and both he and the mavozs of Bedford concur in the opinion thsarf th, numerous marginal notes are in tfX hand of the Inspired Tinker" It was lin all probability one of the books that belped toward 'The Pilgrims Progress, hVhicb was published in 1878.
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is covered with carvings, and among them is tfat of a woman, elaborately dressed. Nearby lies another great stone, which looks like the head of tiger and all about are blocks of carved stone Of one kind or other.
 In the Midst of Banana Plantation All about the excavated city is an immense banana plantation The sev- enty-flve acres of park contain some jungle but the fruit company has cut down the dense woods surrounding this, ands bananas are now growing among the logs and in the ashes of the burned veg etation. Some of the trees on the ground are twenty feet in circumference, and these giants of the jungle show the work that has to be done in the clearing.
 A part of the park will probably be left as it is for 1t is as fine specimen of tropical jungle as can be found on the face of the globe. I am told that the woods contain deer, mon- keys, sloths and ant eaters. and l saw birds of bright plumage flying about the trees As if Is now the ruins can be easily reached by railroad, the city of Quirigua being only a mile and a half from the track and about so miles inland from Puerto Tsarrios the Caribbean sea
 A Word About the Mayans
 And now in closing, let me say a word about the people who probably hiiilt this city and made these wonder
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terday. They were laboring in the heart of the jungle Palm and mahog- any trees some of the latter 150 feet h.gh shaded them. and the trunks of great trees lay among the debris of the temple mounds which they were cutting out. They have already cleared a space of six or eight acres which is filled with great mounds, under which lie some mighty temples of the past. The mounds are 20 or 30 feet high. and you can see the stones of temples show ing out. On the tops of some of them grew trees many feet thick and in mound number 1 l saw negroes cut ting out the stumps of mahogany trees. They were taking away the earth in one corner and there under the su- pervision of MT. Merely the ancient walls were being relaid The temple on which he was working was about 90 feet wide and 100 feet long. The stones taken out were covered with carvings and upon them were the faces of men and women. There were also glyps or characters cut in the stone.
 The stones I first saw were a part of a frieze and Mir. Merely showed me that the wall of the temple was nine feet thick and that the whole of the, outside is covered with carving. One door has been excavated and the slabs o' CT this are seven feet long. I saw one piece of sandstone which had q hole cut through 1t, and it seemed to TO as +Haurs r. --'~ht have been the
 3hs Grand psaxa
 Etnt thss lesnpif we otn1rs. climra D a siat 4n r9ii e'k itaulds Of leoiias laT 1ca hele
 .sls. If,ink af fih s' 31ian af Athfus s21 I can see that when the earth is all cleared away the site will be very im- posing. Much of the buildings has al- ready been uncovered, and you can walk about through the ancient structures and wenGer what kind of people put them into shape. There is no doubt but that the stone all came from some distance.
 The soil of the court Is q sandy loam, and there are no rocks of any kind within three miles of 1t excepting those in the temples. The chief quarries are tbree miles away, and 1t is believed that the heaviest monuments were brought here by turning the course of the Quiri- qua river so that it ran past the temples
 The city seems to have been laid with a grand plaza or court, with q smaller court adjoining, for the temples or main buildings The main buildings surround q court. They had terraeed walls from thirty to sixty feet high, and in some Of them are rooms with walls of square stones and doorways arched with flat stones. To the north of the plaza Is ! pyramid, which is 150 feet square at the base and forty feet high Near this pyra- mid is round. carved stone so big that It would take forty horses to haul if it was put upon wagon. This stone
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 kne*leage thsee syiassgs 70 she
 tt tf1t9t ai- aale epos -sal1e sl fhe arc us the dates I have given. pr tiewet. believes that their civilization wes largely religious, and that the govern Irent was thes4 Tatic republic. He thinlxs that they lived in houses some what similar to the bambooAhuts of tho tropics, and that these great temples monuments and pyramids were put Up only as a means of worship .ug thear gods. Some of the other acheologists think that the faces on the monuments were those of the queens, kings or pTiestesses of that day.
 These people are believed to have belonged to the Mayans, race stock which included many nations and which lived in southern Mexico, and in q reat part of Guatemala and Salva- dor. According to the Mayan trad : tions they came from the north and it is said that it was not long after the time of Christ that they made their way south into Mexico. They are sup pcsed to have been in Yucatan about 500 A. D, and here in Guatemala a lit t,c later. The people of Yucatan are said to be among their descendants. and the same may be true of some or the tribes of Guatemala.
 FRANK c. CARPENTER.