Arizona republican., 1913-03-05
The Ten "Lost Tribes" of Israel

The mystery of the ten lost tribes has been a subject absorbing many centuries and their whereabouts is still unsolved. Hundreds of volumes have been written upon the subject, and many explanations have been given their probable whereabouts. But still seems to have come to any definite conclusion as to what became of these twelve tribes of Israel When they broke their alliance with the tribes of Judah and of Benjamin. the latter remained in southern Palestine establishing Jerusalem their capital The Is- raelites who seeded went nOrthward to Samar- ia and others elsewhere
 Close eight centuries before the birth of Christ Sargon, the king of Assyra, swept down upon Samara and carried away many thousands of it's citizens into captivity and whither they com peiled to find new home no one knows, but the Assyran king populated their country with Baby lOnian and Syrian colonists.
 With their captivity these ten tribes if swallowed up by the earth much so that no def mite of them has been learned. The de- scendants of the remaining tribes overcome later, and when they too finally driven away they possessed strong a personality and racial that they endured despite the bitter oppression to which they were subjected throughout the cen turies, and with splendid tenacity and and being able to keep their religion, their history and their customs intact.
 This being the case how it possible that the ten other tribes completely vanished? It could not be possible that they were all slan or that they all died in captivity, leaving descen- dants It is to be presumed that they migrated somewhere, but where? This question has puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. Some writers of the opinion that the lost tribes long afterward appeared as the lawless, gallant Anglo
  Other European nations have been supposedly traced these missing Israeltes while few commentators believe that they became merged into the nationalities other conquerors and of neigh boring peoples.
 Of special interest to Americans is the opinion of certain writers that the lost tribes in some found their way the country and be- what were later known Indians, and they especially traced in the Aztec race Among those who most firmly believed this were the early Spanish priests who settled in America. So also did Roger Williams, Cotton Mather and many later theologians and scientists Certain Indian dialects were have words and phrases and other forms speech strongly suggestive of Hebrew ori- gin.
 Tn 17GS Charles Beatty, eighteenth century missionary, wrote that he he had found traces of the lost tribes" among the Delaware Indians, the that Indians had once shown a white man ancient scroll that contained DOT tions of the ancient Hebrew law
 Despite all the theorizing and guessing as to the ten lost tribes" absolutely authentic word has ever or be learned as to their fate The earth in those days was, of course sparsely populated. and there many sections where they could have settled and flourished as an independent nation. Yet the archives of no na- sion and land describe such settlement and no trace be found anywhere of the missing Is- raelites.