Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-01-02
Lost CITY IS FOUND.
Believed to Have Been Built by
Chinese in Mexico,
Three Towns Were Erected on ii.
Same Site by Three Civilizations
Prior to the Aztecs-Monsolian
Image 10 Discovered.

'oU 70 sne ftztecS-Mongoiian
Image 10 Discovered.
City of Mexico. "A sensation has
been created In British scientific cir
cles by advices received from Sir
Martin Conway, Prof. William Niyen
and Senior Ramon Mena of the discoy-
cry OF absolute Monaghan remains
only couple of hours walk from the
City Of Mexico, thereby confirming
the hypothesis that has long been
held that the most ancient ciyiliza-
ton of Mexico and Peru preceding
that of the Toltecs and the Aztecs
was of Mongolian origin, says a cor
respondent.
Close to and partly beneath the
ruins Of the ancient city of Tootihua-
can, about nineteen miles northeast
OF the City Of Mexico, the scientists
uncovered the still more ancient city
of Otumba, which fiourished with
wondrous civilization centuries before
the Aztecs or Toltecs rose to power,
possibly even before Babylon and
Nineyeh swayed the destinies of west
ern Asia
With the financial assistance of the
Mexican government the expedition
began the removal Of a s1x-foot layer
of earth, representing the dust and
detritus of more than twenty cen
turtles. This soon brought into view
many evidences of vast and popu-
lous city of a very high order of civ
llization. Chief among these was a
great pyramid. It is 700 feet square
1T the base and its apex is 1877 feet
high, while many of the giant blocks
Of stone in it's massive walls must
have required extraordinary engineer
Ing skill to handle. This pyramid
also has its riddle, for the axis of the
main gallery is coincidental with the
magnetic meridian
The workmanship is of a high or
der the figures being boldly drawn
and carefully colored
Then came the greatest discovery
Of all. While excavating near the
base of the great pyramid Professor
Niven unearthed the remains of yet
third civilization beneath the ruins Of
lncient Otumba, making three great
cities of lost and forgotten races,
built one above the other.
In what appears to have been
omb of the lowest city. whose age so
lar defies calculation, Professor Niven
lOund the clay image of Chinaman.
With oblique eye Sits, padded coat,
lowing trousers and slippers. Only
The queue was lacking to make COM
plete portrait Of = mandarin Of the
recently defunct Chinese empire It
Dhoutd be remembered, however, ,that
the Chinese did not adopt the queue
until after they had been conquered
by the Tartar hordes from the north.
The image is about seven inches in
ength. and where the arms are
broken the edges of the clay show
red and friable In the center. The
Duter surface of the clay, however, is
II granite hardness and it is only
With the greatest difficulty that it can
be Clipped with a hammer.
This Chinese image" writes Pro-
lessor Niven, was not made by the.
Aztecs. It is much older and proves
Mat the ancient people Of Mexico
we're familiar with the MopGol type.
st should be borne In mind that
his image was not god or an idol.
but an ornament-perhaps portrait
lone in clay by some prehistoric
,culptor..
.'Ths ago of the figure isTdihlcuit to
determine without further data. Cir
Mmstances, however, warrant the
rough guess that about 5000 years
lgo Chinese navigators crossed the
Pacific in their primitive junks and
discovered America thousands Of
.Eears before Columbus was born.
Settling there, they built city. and
In a grave Of one of their number.
many years after, . clay image of the
nan was buried with him.
This great city fell into ruins
perhaps through conquest-but the
image lay safe: The ruins of this first
city were covered with earth and
there arose through the centuries an
pther splendid and mysterious city.
This, too, fell into ruins. and upon It
was raised third metropolis of some
forgotten race of men. At last the
third city crumbled into dust, but I'M
aerneath them all the Chinaman's
image still lay safe and undisturbed
until little group of searchers in the
cause of science in this wonderful
twentieth century of ours have
brought it to light. and perhaps
through it we may now solve the
Enigma of the new worlds beginning