The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-11-27
A STORY OF
CANNIBALS
Missouri Valley Once Home
of Man Eaters.
Silence Tells Of People Who Pro-
baby Came From
Mexico.

Lincoln, Neb.- Scientists digging
into the ground have found remains
of a wonderful people in this region,
concerning which A. Edwin Long
writes as follows:
Who were the people that centuries
ago overran the great Missouri Val
ley, even before the modern Indian
appeared in America? Why did they
live in carefully constructed rectang-
ular caves?
Why did they devour each other?
Where did they learn the fine art
of sculpturing in soapstone with
crude flint implements?
Where did they learn so much as
tronomy or mathematics that every
one of their caves uncovered today is
found to be rectangular, lying as truly
north and south and east and west as
the homes of a modern city?
Did they indeed come up from Mex
leo in the eleventh century, a peace
loving and party cultured people.
driven forth by the famine and the
tide of fiercer and warlike Aztecs?
The Peabody Museum of Harvard
University wants to know. The Uni
versity of Nebraska wants to know.
The Universit yof Nebraska. thru
Robert F. Gilder,it field archaeOlo-
gist and the discoverer of the sunken
cave ruins of these people, has work
ed for some years for a solution of
the master secret held by the soil of
the Missouri Valley prairies.
Sent Out investigation.
This year, however the Peabody
Museum. of Harvard University has
determined to learn more about this
lost race. So it sent Prof. Frederick
NJ. Stems. a member of its staff, TO
Nebraska this summer to do some ex-
cavating and make a field survey IF
the territory once overrun by these
people. Early in the summer he es-
tablished a general headquarters at
Omaha. All summer he has lived in
a tent along the river and has moved
from time to time, only as he decid-
ed to open a new cave in another To-
cality. ..
During the summer he has opened
dozens of these caves. The farther
the excavation goes the more evidence !
points to a relation between this lost |
race and the early partly civilized |
races of Mexico, Central American |
and Yucatan. .......
No. these people are not Aztecs.
That is pretty well agreed upon.
Not so certain, however, are the
scientists that these people were not
related to the TOltecs. Mayas or 9TH
,r semicivilized races of Southern
Mexico who throve before the Aztecs
displaced them. Similarities between
some Toitec and Magyar relies, and
ome of the remains taken from the
Valley cave ruins are re-
narkabei
\ pink soapstone head. delicateiy
a,yed, dug from a cave near Omaha,
nd now in the Carnegie Museum in
hat city, is one Of the most remark
bile in this respect. Scientists from
he greatest universities of the world
lave niarveled at the delicacy of the
work, and the striking features of
he face.
."Weat does it resemhle?" they
tsk each succeeding scientist that
observes il. "Is it Oriental? Is 1t
Mexican museums by
heir collection of Toltec and Magyar
of Central American and
Yucatan give mute evidence of the
possible answer. For in these mu-
seums of the Southland lie hundreds
1f stone bas-relief faces believed to
represent the Adam of the early May
as or TOltcs; and these bas-relief
faces are strkingly like the little
pink soaphead which Robert F. Gill
der dug out of cave ruin in Ne
braska, and which is chiefly respon-
sible for inspiring the Stems ex-
petition of Peabody Museum.
Tho 1t was this sculptured head of
soapstone that startled archaeology
cal and chronological science, and
called forth the Peabody expedition,
his is by no means the only evidence !
pointing TO Mexican or Central
American origin of these lost people.
Many burnt clay heads about one /
third as large as mans fist, have
been found by Prof, Storms and Dir.
Glider. In the gaping mouth many of
hem resemble the rain gods of the
re-Spanish 'Mexicaps. Likewise do
hey resemble to a vast degree the
he many terra Gotta masks and idols
plowed up in the fields