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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1908)
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TRACES OF EAELY INHABITANTS Discoveries of Lut Summer In an I n. explored Itegion of Woml A Little LlKki on Ita Pre historic Inhabitants. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Harlan I. Smith, archaeologist of the American Museum of Natural History, has returned from a. 462-mile wagon trip , of recon nolsaancc in northeasttrn Wyoming, made In the interests of the museum. Besides securing the first archaeological specimens ever brought from the region which extend from tha Black Hills to the Big Horn mountain in northeastern Wyjmlug, he photographed among other things pre historic quarries, anelent pictures painted on cava walls representing prehistoric cave dwellers and sculptures cut on the cliffs and sides of natural caves. . All of these were discovered by Mr. Smith's party and were unknown to the RClentlflc world until now. The results of tha trip will ba published by the museum in its ootavo anthropological papers, fully illus trated, and this report will throw new light on tna prehistoric Americans. The expedition was sent out to continue tha work which Mr. Bmlth started for the museum last year, when he made a three months' trip, crossing and recrosslng tho southern part or Wyomlnj. The whole work is a contrlhullon by the museum toward an investigation Into the archae ology Of a vast unexplored region. Includ ing tha great plains, the barre lands and tha plateau region of America, regarding which there Is practically no archaeological knowledge. Locating- Old Home Kites. Wyoming is near the southern center of this region and seemed to be, the nucleus from which the work might be started. Mr. Smith's task waa to look over ths field in order to locate Bites where people llyed before white men visited the stte and which it would be profitable to exca vate, incidentally securing as much In formation aa possible. Among the general problems which present themselves for solution may be mentioned the following: When did the region first coma to be inhabited? What was the natural culture of the first Inhabi tants? Were Hla living in the area, before the Introduction of the horse, and . If so, how did the coming of this animal affect their culture? Was there more than .on culture In the region either In various , Jiarts or during different periods of time? .And if so, where are the boundaries of these cultures and what are the charac teristic of each culture? MY. Emlth aecured the services of Pan Chalfant, an experienced cowboy, at Lusk. With a team and a wagon, on the aide of which waa lashed a five-gallon raak for .carrying water through the desert places, they made the trip with only one mishap the breaking of ail the spok.s in one wheel. Staring from tha Mine Bar ranch, at the aouthern end of Rawhide Buttes, they drove northward to Hot Creek. Continuing northward, they passed through a bad land country entirely given over to sheep raising and where the sheep herders live In covered wagons, so that houses are sel dom seen. If one looks at a map he will ace many places marked as towns and postofflces, but they usually consist of a single house, part of which serves .as a post office. On the maps many streams and rivers are Indicated, but few of them were found to contain - water, although there were evidences that In the spring floods had come down the ravines. The spring floods had washed out signs of wagon tracks, so that the route was fre quently without the guidance of even a wheel mark across the buttes and through the canons. Boniethimes on reaching a ranch It would be found that all tha men were away on the roundup and the women could not give directions as to the best route to follow, for they were acquainted with the country for only a few miles from the ranch. Roate Krom Newcastle. Finally. Newcastle, a town in the western edge of the Black Hills, was reached. The party then turned northwestward, follow ing the edge of the sparsely timbered mountains, while to the left was a graslng country. Here, about seven miles north west of Newcastle In Oil Creek canon, a cava dwelling, breatwork and cave man picture writings were found. Continuing, the route led down Wild Horse Creek. Crossing Powder river by means of a ford the wagon was finally pulled into Sheridan. For some days after seeing the Devil's Tower, miles away to the north, the snow on the northern side of the peaks of the Big Horn mountains had been seen miles to the west. Then for a time high ridges had cut off the view, until at Sheridan the party were at the very base of the mountains. Going southwestward, the canona of Craay Woman and Muddy were searched and in both caves that had been occupied by cave dwellers were found. In Muddy Canon the men felt particularly active, but later found that they had been drinking water charged with arsenic from the red rocks of the canon walls which was not sufficiently strong to poison them but caused the peculiar exhlleratlon. Leaving behind the cave dwellings Mi'. Smith pushed on past the Hole In the Wall country and the red rock region over the divide to Casper, where he left the wagon to return home, and took the train for New York. Qaary tor stone Implements. . Perhaps the most remarkable discovery made on the trip was a quarry from which the prehistoric inhabitants secured atone out of which to chip their arrow points, spear heads, knives, skin scrapers, drill and other Implements. This quarry cov ered at least five acres on the southern end of the mountain locally known at Brownell Hill, at a point about a mils east of the junction of Hat creek and Old Woman creek. In eastern central Wyom ing. There were numeroua pita 1n the top of the hill going down into atrata carrying seams and nodules of flint-like' rock. Scat tered about these pits were the battered pebbles which had been used aa hammers In breaking out the rock and smashing the pieces up into convenient Use for chip ping and flaking Into Implements. B.'iu of these hammers had a groove pecked around them to facilitate the fastening to a handle. Unfinished implements and corea from which pieces for Implements had been clipped were everywhere about and nearby were circles of stones that had been used to hold down the skin covers of the tents of the quarrymen. Theso quarry people must have been in the country long before they saw any white people, for there were no glass beads. Iron arrow points or sim ilar objects such as Indians at once gut by trade from the very first white ex plorers, travelera and aettlers. Specimens of the rock of the quarry, of the cores, unfinished Implements and stone hammers were sent to the museum and are the first specimens collected from the quarry, or in fact from northeastern Wy oming. This quarry Is remarkably large. A five acre prehistoric quarry would be pro nounced largo anywhere, but when It is considered that 'last year In the southern part ot tho stutjj several large quarries were seen, the addition of five more acres of prehistoric quarry work mufces an amaz ing total. The extent of this work seems the more surprising because it Is not known yet whither the product was car ried. The quarry is also remarkable for being further north in Wyoming than any flint rock quarries were previously known to exist. Plctorearraphs on Walla. Petroglyphs, or picture writing cut In the rocks made by other than white hands were seen and photographed on the sand stone cliffs and in the cava dwelling on the western bide of OH creek. This place Is on the western edge of the Black Hills jonr.c Klx miles went of Newcastle. Seme of these writings represent men, the cave men who lived there, and are, Identical In general outline, character and approximate size with both petroglyphs and ptctographs found In the cave dwell ing In Muddy canon as well as the rock carvings found last year near Hammond in the southern part of the state. This goes to show that the people who made them, If not the same, were at least in fluenced by each other. Ona of the petroglyphs represents an elklike animal and others ceremonial shields with markings which possibly may be Interpreted when tha photographs are submitted to those who are students of the old Slonan designs and religious ceremonial decorations. . The plctograpbs or paintings in the cave dwelling on the north aide of Muddy canon In the Big Horn mountains are in red and some In drab. The drab pictures are the first In that color which. Mr. Bmlth haa seen In his archaeological work, which has been continuous for more than eighteen years. The greater number of plctographs which he has wen In the northwest are red. Some cf the Muddy canon pictures repre sent shields and one a cave man with a bear. Along the route were seen numerous circles of stone marking the sites ot an cient tepees or buffalo skin tnta. It is dealrable to make a map showing where all these, circles are found; first, to show the distribution of the villages of the people using that style of tent fasteners and sec ond to determine If the tents in each vil liage were arranged In a camp circle or other ceremonial form. There is a large circle of atones with. cross lines of stones like spokes of a wheel in the Blk Horn mountains. At the ends of the spokes are the ruins of little stone sweat houses and the whole place is held In superstitious awe by the Crow Indians. It is called a medicine wheel and haa been seen by but few people. Both the cave dwolllngs in Oil Creek canyon and Muddy canyon were barricaded In front with piles of rocks forming "a breastwork. In the western part of the area the cow boys and sheep men had seen dishes cut out ot soapstone of a rare type not rep resented in any of the eastern museums. The,dlshes are larger toward the top than at the bottom, but the opening is slightly smaller in some cases than the body. An cient diBhea made of true pottery are un known in the whole northeastern part of Wyoming, the Black Hills and the Big Horn mountains.' Such pottery has only been found In a few places, less than a dozen, In the whole state, and that these places were all In the southern part toward the cliff dwelling and Pueblo area of Colo rado, New Mexico and Arizona. In various parts of the area examined there are lines marked by rocks and piles of rocks. Theso heaps are sometimes as high aa a mans head, but often very small, sometimes consisting of a single stone, again of two or three, but often by a pile the size of a bushel basket. The piles are frequently about eight feet apart, sometimes more, and the lines so formed sometimes extend for miles across the country. They are usually on hill or ridge tops and often cross large flats. Some termi nate at cut banks or bluffs. There Is much dlsousslon as to what these are. Some Bay they mark trails, others that they show Which way, from the desert trail water could be found. Bonudaries of Hunting; Grounds. A few believe them to be boundarlet be tween the hunting ground - of different tribes, but the explanation that seems most satisfactory 'is that they are either lines used to direct t the people In stam peding antelopes and buffaloes over a bluff or Into an enclosure, or that they are scare crows along which these animals could be stampeded, they being, afraid to cross them. On being run over the bluff or Into the enclosure .in confusion they could be more readily killed If not already dead or Injured by the fall. Mr. Emlth called attention to the lack of knowledge of the archaeology or pre history of titis region and the surrounding country aa far north as the Arctic oceap in the Boas anniversary volume published In 19u7. The museum authorities are par ticularly pleased that they were able to begin the work ot Investigation In the region. The task of solving all the prob lems will take many years even if other educational institutions co-operate in ex ploring the area. Mr. Smith sums up the resulta of his trip as follows: "Nothing was found to indicate that any of these remains were as recent aa the coming of the first whits men to the reg ion, as no glaa beads or iron arrow points or similar materials wiere found asso ciated with them. On the other hand, nothing was seen which would prove their great antiquity or show that they were older than the securing of tha horse by the native peoples who formerly lived in thla part of tha country. "While, of course, tbeae results are sot sufficient to prove that man did not occupy the region until after the Introduction of the horse gave him a beast which would facilitate his movements out into the buf falo plains anl until after the settlements in tha east had begun to crowd the Indiana westward, nevertheless this negative evi dence suggests quite strongly that at least a portion of the Great Plains must have been uninhabited until after the horse was known to the Indians. "There are certainly no deep deposits of village refuse nor a great amount of an tiquities to be found In the region, such as are easily discovered in places that are known to have been Inhabited for a period antedating the coming of the horse, as, for instance, Ohio and the state ot Washing ton. To be aure the results of quarrying are very extensive a great deal of stone haa been moved but those who know the real Indian are aware that this work could have been done in a comparatively short period of time. 'On the whole, the results of the two archaeological trips to Wyoming would suggest that that particular region until after the advent of the horso was not In habited." i MOTORS PUT TO GOOD USES Machines of the Honk Order Hooked Up to Do Good in Many Instances. The average urban resident looks upon the automobile merely as a convenience, more rapid In motion than the horse and less likely to ahy at strange objecu. Such an assumption Is far from an adequate con ception of the vehicle. In Connecticut the owner of a newspaper sends his paper to press by automobile. He backs the machine up near his presses, at taches the power and the news is chugged' out away beyond speed limit. Heedless persona laugh at farmers who mortgage their farms to purchase automo biles. It Is the farmer who has the laugh. At 4 o'clock in the mornirg and mayhaps at S or S. for the milk Inspector haa a way of walking In at 4 o'clock and Interfering with milking the carburetor amy be heard at the dairy. One motor car connected with six milking machines can milk twelve cows at a time. Is there churning to be done? The motor can do almost everything but roll the butter. Perhaps the farmer takes hit milk to the station in his machine and then he gets back in tlmo to saw the wood for cooking breakfast.- He attachea a cir cular wood saw to the motive power of the car and the result la highly satisfactory. This may even explain why so many tramps frequent large cities. There are now leas opportunities than ever for them to aaw wood for a breakfast In suburban places. The automobile fairly anorta at their shiftlessnest. This snort, redolent of disdain and gaso line, one bears often now at the hay mow in place of the accustomed sneeze of a horse trying not to contract hay fever while hoisting fodder into the barn. No longer need the patient animal at the far end of a pulley rope start upon a run, only to be brought up short, under the impres sion that he has made a false start, while time la given, him to reflect upon the per versity of mankind, and the farmer to un hitch hay from pulley and send the hoist ing hook out for more. A motor car runs out with the rope now, and lifts double the quantity without straining a muscle. In San Francisco the motor fire patrol is able to get to and" extinguish a fire while the speediest fire horse Is still panting on his way. Automobiles are used to haul snow, beer, dry goods, bank boxes and to cure consumption by rapid motion through the air. No longer need the mining pros pector wander wearily through arid wastes in the west. He may seek his nuggets by means of a motor car. No longer need a presidential candidate risk bursting tho rail of an observation car with his eloquence. He may speak from an automobile. No longer need the flower grower urge his horse through wintry dawns In the effort to get his blossoms early to the market. He may arise later, get to the train earlier in his automobile, and maintain, mean while, the aspect of a gentleman of leisure out for a morning spin. Plcnlo parties vote the automobile a vast Improvement over a farm wagon carpeted with straw. Stowing away dishes is no longer a task fraught with danger to ohina. The automobile hamper has in It every necessary for an al fresco luncheon, strapped and clamped Into an economy of space scarcely conceivable to the mind of an average housewife. Motor curs have all manner of little hidden cupboard contriv ances in which things may be stowed. With ter.t and living necessities tucked onto and under Us mechanism, one may move on to new places and pleasures every day to fishing, boating, hunting and climbing, with wide, free country contribut ing ever new sources of enjoyment and of fering ever new attractions to the wan derer afield. The luxurious traveler en joys llto In a touring car, which may be converted ' into bed chamber, bjudolr, li brary, living room and dining room at will. Electrlo dome light, speaking tube, sta tionary Clock, elaborate toilet articles and mirror, delude one Into believing this" motor car a minaturu hotel tin wheels. New York Tribune. TESTS OF THE NOISELESS RIFLE promlae Greater Hevolotlon In Modern Warfare Than Did Hmoke leaa Powder. With airships, aeroplanes and dirigible balloons war, Indeed, must become terrl bio, but the climax Is reached when one considers the latest phase of firearms a developed In Hiram Msxlm, jr.'a nolsoless rtfle, which, Indeed, must make war an Impossibility. Equipped with this new de vise, attached to an engine of destruction, the United Slates army would be practi cally Invincible, and no foe need be feared so long as the device remained an Amer ican secret. Experiments being made by an army board are being watched with the closest attention, and already the effect that the elimination of noise will have upon battle tactics Is. receiving attention. Colonel R. Birnie and Mejor TJracy C. Dickson of the United States Army Ordnance board realizes that Ita adoption means the re equipment of the entire army and the working out of many difficult problems. The government Is especially desirous of keeping the matter of the noiseless device as quiet as possible and an Injunction has been placed upo tho His of everybody in the service. "The lact of the matter le." said one officer, "that If thla Invention of Maxim proves entirely successful the United State1 army wlil be placed M per veat ahead of any other army In the world In efficiency, man to man. For the fir it time in years ihls government has a chance to take a big step In advance nf the rjst of the world In arming Its soldiers, and It la desired to take full advantage of It. "There Is no doubt that It will bring about a greater revolution In warfare than did smokeless powder. It will add an ele ment of terror that is almost Impossible to describe. Smokeless powder robbed the soldier of the sense of slcrt in the dis charge of firearms, and now the noiseless gun woi Id render his hearing of no value. Mentally, he would huve a feeling of help lessness that would tend to make cowards Of. the bravest." It Is believed In army circles that the Maxim invention can be applied as readily to. artillery as to small arms. Should thl be the case, it will result In both the army and the navy . ordnance being equlppei with the device. The expense would not be great, while the results, It the United States should engage In war, would bt be yor.U measure. The inventor of this device Is the fori of Sir Hlrum Maxim, who gave to the world the muchlne gun. He lives In Hart ford, Conn. The device is the reiu'.t of long study of the problem of muffling the rapid explosions Incident to the operation of an automobile. The report due to the sudden release of gases at the muzzle of a rifle when the discharge occurs Is pre vented through the action of a valve whic h, allows . the gas to esoape gradually, and with an almost silent hissing sound. The appearance ot the weapon Is not al tered, except for a small nrosKploce In the barrel a short distance from the muscle. Just as the bullet emerges the escape of the gases is shut off. This result Is gained through a piston valve, sliding across the bore cf the barrel Immediately after thM bullet papes. Tho valvo Is operated by the pressure of the gas, and there la no Intricate mechanism. Tests are being made at the government armory In Springfield, Mass., and accord ing to reports the discharge of a gun with out the noiseless device could bo heard (.700 yards. With the device It could be heard only 1.S00 yards, the Invention thus eliminating 71 per cent of the noise. All that could be heard at the latter Ulstanoe waa the click of the hammer on the shell.- Pittsburg Dispatch. Had Another Aeine for It. J. F. Johnston, the new United States senator from Alabama, Is an ardent agricul turist. One day, after retiring from, the governorship and returning to his home. In Birmingham, he donned his overalls and went to work In the garden. A society lady, a newcomer, entered tha yard to call on Mrs. Johnston. Her ring at the door not Bolug answered, she walked Into the gardkn. "How long have you worked tor tha Johnstons?" she Inquired of the man she found there. "A good many years, madam." "Do they pay you well?" "About all 1 get out of It la my clothes and keep." "Why, then come and work for me," she said. "I'll do that and pay you so much a month besides." "I thank you madam,' he replied, "but I signed up with Mrs. Johnston for life." "Why no such contract is binding. That Is peonage." "I have always' called It marriage," re plied the senator. Success alagasinev
