OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, NOV. 22 1912 WHERE ONG E MEN LIVED HOLES A BIT OF OUR COUNTRY BACK BEFORE HISTORY. A Visit to the Ancient Cliff Dwel lers Rulna of the Puye. (By M. J. Brown.) ' Facing the blazing sun I sat in the front door of a Cliff Dweler's ancient home for an hour, and I doubt if I ever moved. It was the fourth story of homes on the wonderful I'uye Cliffs in the Sanla Clara canyon. I sat in the doorway, with my legs hanging down and looked across the canyon and just wondered, imagined and thought. After a while the perspiration trickled down from under my hat and I came back to Taft's time jumped from hundreds of years ago to A. D. 1912, and realized it was hot. 1 crawled back into the little home of a forgotten day and fill ed my pipe. The scratch of the match in the tufa walls was a false note, and when I tried to whistle, 1 just couldn't. I tossed a stone down the cliff and timed it with my watch, to get the distanci and when it struck the sound seemed almost a sacrilege in this city of silence and mystery. Out there under the blazing sun of today, in that desert country, where coyotes go mad for water, and the big, black vultures hunt for food, are tno most wonderful and mysterious ruins of this con tinent ruins of a people of which there is no history, monunienU of a civilization that was extinct before the white inan ever saw America. And when one looks at the ruins of those unknown people, the old witchery and mystery of me lar dim ages get into his blood they fascinate. You look at these hundreds of hives that were once the homes of human beings, and it seems as if the great white walls must speak and leu wnose tno people were, when co they came and whither they went. But tho walls and homes are silent But there it is, a picture now of the unknown past. Many of the houses once had an opening at the back, but which were afterward walled up and ce mented over. A Smithsonian man told me that there were bodies walled in these places, that they were graves. It Is plain to be seen where the opening once was, but with a great cemetery on top of the mesa I cannot understand why they should use a part of their congested tenementes for graves. On, but I would like to have used a pick for 30 minutes. But thero are rigid government prohi bitions and one doesn't care to lake the chances. If you found a bushel of bones or relics it would be difficult to get them out. The forest rangers have a right to hold you up and search you, and the little railroad town on the narrow gauge is the only way out from these ruins, ami it would be very dangerous to take any relics there. 1 carried out a few bits I found, but they went out under my hat. In the Courier's front window you will see some bits of wizened corn ears and coos. These I dug out of the six inch dust THE IMPRESSIONS ARE WRONG FLIPPANT ALLU8ION TO SCI ENTISTS CORREOTED. Portland Writer 8hows Difference Between Truth and Nonsense that covered the floor of a cliff dweller's home. They had laid there hundreds and perhaps thou sands of years. The pieces of broken pottery in the window anyone is welcome to. There are almost car loads at the foot of these cliffs. And the finger and hand bones well, I refuse to testify, on the ground that I might incriminate myself. You won't find much history of the cliff dwellers, for there is none, and I suppose this is why so deplorably few of we Ameri cans Know anything about these prehistoric people. Jiut if you will take a trip down to the Jamez plateau, and see these wonderful ruins, you will have been taught a chapter in history you will nev er forget. Nobody knows where these people came from or where they disappeared to. The I'uenio Indi ans, who lived in this vicinity long before Columbus' time have no history or legend of the people of these cliffs. They lived there in thousands once upon a tune. and then they vanished, and there is absolutely nothing to indicate that there was a calamity, plag ue or general exodus. All indicat es a slow order of extermination, nothing to indicate haste or dis aster. How these thousands of people could have lived in this barren, rainless waste is a puzzle, but perhaps in ttie age or these cave men conditions were different. Alter 1 lelt the Santa Clara nv. Portland, Ore. Nov. 16 Editor Courier: "Mental attitude is a great thing," declares the writer of a somewhat facetious creed, that appeared November 8th in the Courier. He has the enthusiasm of a recent convert for his theory, and goes so far as to conclude that if Oregonians will only coup le this "mental attitude" with physical culture they may devel op a line pnysique ana live a nun dred years. Your readers, perhaps, enjoy ed it as a joke and then dismiss ed from mind, or possibly retain ed a lingering impression that "there might be something in it." If this is all tho letter did it was harmless. But there's a chance it lodged in the readers' minds a number of false impressions, and so I ask you for space to correct them. First, the writer of the letter vaguely associated the practice of, Christian Scientists with his the ory about "mental attitude" then he associated unnsiian science with an entirely different system of thinking, which, he says, "was practiced by tho Egyptians and other races," who projected their astral bodies into Space where they now roam." The teachings of Christian Science are diametrically opposed cause they simplify the matter for him, enabling him to swing nis careless and often wrong menial altitudes around into al ignment with the spiritual atti tude indicated in the Bible, help ing him to "fight the good fight," so that he can finally say, with the Psalmist, "Bless the Lord, Oh my soul Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy di seases: who redeemeth thy life from destruction; so that thy j uuui 40 icuoncu uic iiic tragic o. C. II . S. KING. BEAVER CREEK, Beaver Creek was a little be hind with their correspondence but hopes to do better in the near future. This little town is getting along fine ana dandy as usual but as there is not much doing the writer nas noi mucn to write about. Fred Bohlander is busy at his trade as carpenter and was over to Mulino recently building a large boiler shed for the Mulino Lumbering Cor and now he has a job of building a barn for M)r. Burch in Elyville. J. S. Jones is busy ploughing and seeding as his hired man has left him. His man has rented the Robt. Jones farm, better known as the old Oconer farm, for one year. . Some of our farmers are a lit tle backward with their late po tatos and with this bad weather it is difffficult to dig them as many are still in the fields. The farmers are hoping for a snell of nice weather. James. Oconer from Logan, is slaying with- Fred Steiner at Beaver Creek and after a short stay he will go to White Salmon, Wash., to' work for a flume Co. of that place. borne of the Beaver creek farmers were out looking at the Clackamas Southern Railroad and it is progressing swiftly. A large force of men are at work on the OUR GLIUrjTR Y S GREAT "PEACE" JOHN STARK'S WAY OF LOOK' INQ AT IT. Points on Which he and Presi dent Taft Disagree. Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10, a man was seen turning the corner of Eigth and Main streets walk ing in a quiet waynorthward. He was carrying a package suspend ed from his shoulder, and when he nearly reached Ninth he was overtaken by a young man and presently turned back only to face a well fed "gardeen of the law" who evidently walked him to the jail. An eye witness, having seen similar proceedings, concluded the stranger m our gaits was be ing "detained" because he was apparently a working man which, it seems, is a crime in the unwritten law of good society a workingman out of a job, for he had a roll of blankets as circum stantial evidence of guilt'. Grant ing tho above surmise correct, I would ask our local authorities if it is unlawful to be possessed of a ron or blankets, or if it is un lawful to walk the streets carry ing the same or in short, what was the offence of this man if it was other than poverty? "At peace." Now don't jump to conclusion for you are liable to make ine same mistake the auth or of the quoted words makes cut by Lamer's and Co. sawmill. 1 when he. wrote, "At peace within s. r. Lonigan has bought a new anu wnnoui, iree irom calamities i horse gasoline engine and a afflicting other neooles. rich in little Diamond chopper. He is do- harvests so abundantly that the overnow oi our prosperity." There are a few signs over the er until I got back I never saw doors and there are some rock pictures, but they speak in an un Known tongue mat none can translate. . Let me give you a little illus irauon oi wnai tneso c l is are liko, and of how many people once lived mere. , The cliffs are for all the world lige the blurt s of higher, and their and there is not a twig, a vine, a creeper or blade of grass growing anywhere. They rise xtraight up, as one uiuii does opposite tho do pot. On this one cliff I am speaking oi, pernaps tnree-iourths of a mile long, ten thousand human beings once found their homes, ami in a radius or perhaps a square mile one hundred thous and human beings once lived. Now compare. On this one bluff twice as our bluff does opposite the do the population of Oregon City, uvea ami on tile oilier Plulls in the vicinity, half tho population oi roruami. The homes are simply dug out of tho solid rock, and one above another from three to five stories. mummy in the day these men oug uipso noiues uio rock was sou, else tho work could never nave neon accompiisiiei . for re nough water to fill a medicine dropper. A city goat would starve mere, mere is not a drop of moisture, not a living green thing. I tiero is not a ration in the can yons, not n lion in the mountains. l here is absolutely not a moving thing or sign of life. The only living things I saw were three this city, only I black ravens and two rock squir- lace iu white reis. i ne nine annuals looked ai us oui or me Homes or tnese ror gotten people, and the black birds made me think of Poe's famous poem. And how did these thousands and thousands of men exist in the olden days? Why did they burro in these mountains when outside are open plains and great draws? How came they there? Were they white, brown or yellow? Where did they go to? Guess, I don't know. There has never been a metal lic substance found anywhere in these great ruins. These people lived in the stone age, but after the time of fire. Volcanic glass is the hardest substance found. Pot tery was everywhere onco, but vandals of tho early days must nave broken it up in tons. If you will nolo tho broken specimens in the Courier windows you can trace the evolution of these uten member they were not drilled nor Nils. There is the crude, baked niasind oul, hut were dug out I pieces of clay, tho burned pieces with small pieces of black, vol-land then the decorated, and if you canic glass glass that these I observe closely you will see one people went, fifty mile, to get in I with a hole drilled through it. tho Jamez mountains. I want to tell you a little more So they dug their homes in I of this wonderful old beehive in rows along the face of the rock, another letter of tho things one row anovo another, and there I that simply smell or age, of the is hardly a foot of space that has I great ruins on (he mesa, of the not been used. Intone stairways, the kiva, tho once tlieso homes, many of signs, and many other things. I them, had verandas or shades to want to make somo of you fellows protect the residents from the so long to see this place that you blazing western sun. The holes will lake mo down for your guide. anovo mo doors show where t ho 1 " r i ViV"n.ma 'i1'""."0-. . CANBY. tho upper stones? You tell. There are no signs or public elevators or revolving stairways, but it is said, surmised, that each home put up its ladder, climbed up it, reached it to the next, and so on un. You must remember these peo-1 : . ; A Die iliil mil hnv.i mi niirhi I,.,,,,. I '! nay, mere were no morning cars lo eaten, no milk bottles to put out and no fires to dread. They i-uuiti iiiko wieir iime. Twice I have visited these ruins and as soon as tlio Courier sub- scriners get educated to paying in iiuyiiim-.c, i am going Pack again. All day lung I went from one home to another, crawled into . then;, searched them. They are all. alike or nearly so. There is an opening about two feet wide and three feet high. A few have larger doors. Over the door is usually a little opening, whether a smoke hole or window 1 do not know. There is not a fire place, a chimney or anything that served Tor a stove, anil tliis indi cates the people were primitive. Fires were built on the floors of the homes, and the smoke is yet plainly visible on I he roofs and side walls of the dwellings. Nearly, all the caves have one main room, eight or ten feet across, round and arched roofs. And many have smaller rooms ad joining, back into the rock moun tain, ami any number of them have little nilches from I tin size to hold a baby down to the size of a hand. I suppose these were the handy places. Nearly every home is plastered, ami on some 1 look my knife blade and cut through seven distinct layers of plaster. It is put on as smooth as a plastered wall. Where they got. the cement, and they used great quantities of it, no one can tell. In one place, where a wall of stone was laid, there as plain as if moulded yesterday, is the full impression of a human hand in the cement. I laid my band in the mold and it fitted like a glove. I wondered if these men were about my size in this olden day, or whether perhaps this was the im print of the hand of a mischiev ous school girl, who made the im pression whoa pa wasn't looking. Vivian Wheeler is thinking of moving his family lo Portland in I he near future. Donnovan Wheeler called on friends at Needy last Saturday. Alvin Phelp.s and wife were vis- his sister Mrs. Vivian Wheeler last Saturday. Mr. Ilarrv Cochran was beloinur John Burns dig potatoes one day lasi week. Mr. and Mrs. Rano have somo friends visiting them who live near Salem. David Fancher started lust iueminy on his trip to Los Angel es to visit his sisters at that place. ne ion on me steamer nose City. Warren Kendall has moved in to his new house, un a well, put up a small barn anu hen house all in a snort lime. I here are a good mnnv potat oes in i ne ground yet lo lie dug n are wan.ng ior wenmer. iMiiiiK may ami wile were vis iting at Mr. lliltons a few days (go. Harry Cochran has been clear ing laud with his new grubbing machine. It nulls tho hazel nm dog wood slumps all right. mciiard Manner has bought a piece of land joining Warren Kendall s. He will build a house in the near future. Mr, Fisher went to Tillamook n few days ago to work for the Railroad Co. Mj Worf has been liniilinir wood from Hilton's place in to town. William Mainvvood has rented Mis. Dayton's place for the com ing year. Mrs. Clark was visit inir Mrs. Griffin the other dav. Harvey Hisse is working in Mr Hair's ware-house at present. Mr. Porter lias llllil no murn nl eplianls on his hands lately. Farmers Look Up Your FALL Requirements in Farm Tools NO W If you need a new Plow or Harrow, Feed Cut ter, Wagon, Buggy ANYTHING in Imple ments or Vehicles, you will find it in the Mitchell Cim The Best for The West See Us ! CANBY HDWE. (& IMPLE MENT CO. Canby,' Ore. ?3S Implements and Vehicles of Quality at Right Prices a. Hoosier Drills Positive Forced Feed Bloom Manure Spreaders Double Steel Reach' j. i. case rums The Plow a Man Can Pull Dick's Feed Cutters. A big line, and good Drew Litter Carriers A genuine labor saver HARROWS Disc, spring, spike-tooth Water Systems The Mitchell Wagon Monarch of the Road See Us ! w. J. WILSON & CO. Oregon City Ore. BIC FREE IMPLEMENT CATALOGUE SENT YOU UPON REQUEST CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of to theoaophy. or any other theory ahout "astral bodies" and their "projection into spaeo," aa any one ran clearly discern by con sult iiiK the Christian Science, text hook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs. Kddy. As for tho mental attitude of Christian Scientists, tho writer entirely right in his observation that they aro a happy and con tented class of people. Hut they would not bo if they were so ex travapant as to "say that to bo sick is tho greatest sin in the world" as the writer affirms they do. "Science and Health," teaches (page 411, line 20.) that "the procuring cause and foun dation of all sickness is fear, ig norance, or sin." It will be seen I hat Christian Science associates sin and desease only in the same degree that tliey aro associated in the Jtible (Cf. John 5:U.) The writer is also mistaken in stating mat. wun tno Lnristian Scientists there is "no effort about it" that is. making "troubles vanish" and reaching "a state of perfection." To stale the case more accur ately, the typical Christian Scien tist is merely engaged in the ex ercise of practical, genuino piety. He has ingenuously accepted the injunction of tho Master, "Be ye therefore perfect," as addressed directly to himself, and courag eously commits himself to its re alization though often with fear and trembling; and he enjoys the teachings of Christian Science be ing custom work, so get your grain ground at home farmers. T. Steiner bought some pigs from Mr. Wolfson of Elwood one day last . week. Mr. Steiner has plenty of hogs on hand now to supply the Oregon City markets. Tho Fisher Bros, are busy clearing more land and they think it a lot of fun to pull stum ps with their new stump puller. They expect to clear two acres by Christmas. ; : 1 1 1 Abe Thomas is going to start building his barn on his farm this week. It was election and nothing but election but now it will be no thing but Christmas from now on lo the 25th of liecomber and then something else. The dance at the Beaver Creek Hall was a big thing and every body had a fine time and return ed home at a late hour. Some of our Democratic nom inees that were out in this pre cinct, had old Undo Too m Jones' for a stopping place and a res taurant, and I tell you Toom be lieves in serving the very best to such men. Oysters, oyster soup, ham sandwiches and coffee were served and brother readers, Judge Beatie and a couple of his friends certainly enjoyed it and always will remember it too. If you read it in ht Courier it is so. Itching, torturing akin erupt ions, disfigure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan's Ointment brings Fifty cents ai any drug store. j Ho you get next to that done? Beats the "hypo" a little it would seem, when such rank stuff is dished out by the chief executive oi our common country. Separated from these words by a column rule is this headline "Five murnerers are to De Hanged Fri day, Dec. 13 at Salem." The paper from which this is taken con sumes perhaps three quarters of us space 10 election returns no, I wasn't going to twit on the prayenneetings; officially known as conventions I was just say ing so much space was taken up by election returns as not to fur nish news of every day affairs in uio usual volume, cut other head lines read: "Preacher Stabbed at Church Door," "C4irl Shot by Suit or, oman confesses She pois oned Two." In a St. Louis divorce, a part of I he complaint by the preacher piaimui was -preachers Wife Ragged' to hymn." Some "peace" in that, eh?Really. A tramp carpenter some years ago must have read the original draft from which Taft "cribbed" his Thanksgiving proclamation for ho observed "they cry peace, peace, where there is no peace," "rich in harvests so' abundant." Bear that in mind a while, nleasp don't forget to remember that when the- charity societies, sal vation army or other organizat ions for the relier of the poor, send out their cry this winter. Who will be the ones in dis tress? only the working class. The idlers will be at Broadway, N. y oh yes I Many of them have their plans for the killing of time in the official circles of Washing ton; some will cruise the Medit erannean this winter. Now don't get off that musty, old guff about these people being entitled to what they get and the poor don't know how to manage, for hear me thou two logged phonograph, there is red blood still coursing through the veins of this humble scribller and I should be tempted to use the shorter and uglier word. For you know or ought to know, that it is rarely a workingman who has a name en graved on the door plate: it is not the working woman who habitual ly rustles in silk and flashes among diamond, but these are the possessions of that class who toil not. At my hand lies a report by the Government Commissioner of la or on the textile strike at Law rence, Mass. I would that every human being in this Country might read it "then give than ks." No I an everlasting no! I re fuse to join in such a mockery if that be treason, etc. While I sit between four bare walls the rain outside is beating in torrents and I wonder how many of the images of God are destitute tonight to wnom inese humble surroundings would seem the ultimate of luxury and I re flect that they too have given their toil and sweat toward the creating of the necessaries of civ ilized man. are as worthy as I they are my brothers and sisters starving and shivering in this land of plenty, where millions of aouara wero iiierauy mrown about in order that this or that political bum might fatten at the public crib under a lying pretense of the public good. Oh, you are not your brother's keeper I hear you say, That all depends. You are keeping a lot of parasiien at, monKoy dinners ano dog weddings, and I will add also what ye nave not done for these, the least of my brethren, ye have noi aone unio me. At peace, did the rat man say? Somewhere in the tumble of papers, books and documents about rue is a copy of the statisti cal aDsiraci or ine treasury oe partment which tells of the hun dreds of millions spent every year by our statesmen (?) to keep up war. "At peace" when it is al leged that a crank took a shot at a presidential candidate for fear he would plunge this country in to cival war? "At peace" when ine president manes a no may re viewing 1250,000,000 worth of im plementa of murder, a part of which has so recently invaded Nicaraugua to force a fraudulent money claim upon a weaker na tion? Look over any daily news paper and note the orime report, then reflect.. You are seeing but a sample. Oh the misery, the want, the haunting fear of want, the destitution, the children un derfed, ill-clad; the defenseless women, mothers of the race, suf. fering the pangs of hunger, - of cold, or in desperation selling sex for bread; of the black dispair ano or ine nnai leap into etre nity which will be the record be tween now and the time when the dowers of the Held bloom again in the spring, In these United Sttates "rich inharvest so abundant." Just a pessimist, will you say? Is not the devil as black as I paint him? Ah, that I might have the power to paint just one "hundredth part of the blackness of the pic ture. Some of you have been happily denied such tragic scenes; others of you who read realize how feeble are my word pictures. You innocents and you Indifferent n ay asseniDie ai your "accus tomed places of worship" but no human who has ever seen the light will partake of such mock ery, and you of "the cloth" have ever been among us in the lower economic strata of human so ciety if not it is time you did can you play your accustomed part in the farce? Then in re ligion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text? " JOHN F. STARK LITTLE STORIES OF BIG OREGON CLIPPED AND CONDE8NED IT EMS OFF 8TATE NEWS. Stories of Interest Told in a Few Lines. The boy's appetite ts often a source of amazement. If you would have such an appetite take Chamberlain's tableta. They not only create a healthy appetite, but strengthen the stomach and enable it to do its work naturally. For sale by Huntley Bros. Co.. Oregon City, Canby, Molalla and Hubbard. Everybody's friend Dr. Thorn, as' Eclectio Oil. Cures toothache, earache, sore throat. Heals cuts, bruises, scalds. Slops any pain. A passenger train on the Cor vallis & Eastern went through a bridge one mile west of Chitwood, the smoking car going through into the river. No one was ser iously injured. Claiming that the recent local option elections held at Sutherlin and Glendale, Douglas county, were not conducted in accordance with the state election laws, Dis trict Attorney Brown was asked verdict of the voters. Plans have been set foot for making tho 1913 Rose Festival in Portland the biggest thing in tho history of tho city. It is expected to spend more money on the coin ing festival than ever before and to provide lavish entertainment for the thousands of visitors, A Made-in-Orcgon dinner held by the Oregon Manufactur ers Association in Portland this week, called the attention to tho importance of home industries and boosted stale made products. The value of such a movement is apparent but tho necessity re mains of sufficiently impressing it upon Oregon peoplo. Col.. E, Hofer, the well known Salem' editor, retiring from the management of the Capital Jour nal some time since, has launch ed the Oregon Manufacturer, a trade paper at Portland. He will have associated with him his sons, the first issue appeared this week and will have lor its principal object tho development of the state along lines directed toward the utilization of its many resources. It seems like a long time before. the full returns from this elect ion were in. but when it was un derstood that some precincts aro lou miles irom the countv seats and that the returns have to be sent to the county seats on hor.se- dbck, wun 'occasional delays by landslides, the wonder is that we tound out what had been done and who had been elected as soon as we did. Land and dairy shows have the center of the stage this week in Portland and many visitors are in attendance. Prize dairy stock and dairy products may be seen at North Portland and the varied wealth of Pacific Northwest soil is collected at East Morrison and East First streets where splendid fruits, vegetables, grains. Brasses. etc are displayed. Both shows are well attended and the exhibits are of a very high class, Prohibitionists are hnnnv nvpr their showing in the recent elect ions, 11 Oregon cities votintr drv against six voting wet. The fol lowing voted dry: Albany. Eugene, Hood River. Lostine. Rosehnrir Cottage Grove, Silverton, Enter prise, wailowa, Tigard and Leb anon. Ninety-four Grants Pass citizens hung the balance of votes on the "wet" banner and the sal oonkeepers will now start up bus . mess there a.arain. Woodburn went. wet by 32, Glendale by 19. Oak. land by 15. Sutherlin hv .'-hi rniil n 20 majority of Springfield citizens decided they would keep tho sal oons in their cjly a while longer. Statu of Omn. 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