Show AN AS 4 INDIAN One George TJ U S B Hovey of or White WhiteChurch WhiteChurch Church Kan 1011 Is said salt to ta have among hits his collection of ot Indian relics a II small entail stone book bool which he lie found near the th throe three Indian mounds In town township township ship Wyandotte It Is made malic of or red reth pIpestone clay It 11 Is about three Inches long hong two Inches wide anti and one ono inch thick k The rho story stor as ns told by Mr Ir Hovey In tho lie Toledo flinde Is III this Near the tho mounds the tho book was found was the site of n a prehistoric town Hero men dwelt for fOI ci many litany years year t Ir with their wives anti children hero are nrc to be he found In great number their Implements lam for war Will and amid tho the chafe Wo VITO 0 know their workshops tram from tho the hint flint chips nUll ami M alls Thousands of ot arrow orrow have been found and aHI nut many cur knives called by hy tho the Smith Smithson Smithsonian son Ian professors humpbacked knives Indicate that there therl were tere also located there tanneries The extent of ot the ground round the tho many loads londs of ot flints re removed moved since the pIneo has hns been beau known to tho time whites white nil show how that it was vas UR n a town of ot considerable importance The rho number of ot thieve thene ancient town sites Rites and mounds within the limits of rif makes It not a n rush assertion to say MY that 1000 years ago ego enough peo plo pie lived hero here to make muke a n great city At 45 to the book bool hits his explanation is that when hen the first missionaries came camo among the Indians a 11 certain medicine man that they always preached from a n book Jook and he Ito concluded that the tho book was the secret serret of or their Influence over the tho people pt ople So Po he be made mado a n book of ot stono stone and preached front from It lIe He told tol them what this Indian Bible con contained tamed about traders who wh would come como anti ml who would take their furs fur In ex cx exchange change e for firewater making 11 ln them then at ot atall atall all times crazy fools tools of ot men who would come como with weapons of ot fire that made n a grout great noise nolle anti and would kill kilt and scare all 01 the tho game ame Then he lie told of ot many more mON white people who would come collie and who would want their land haiti then great groat troubles and quarrels and finally of ot white warriors who would kill Wll and drive nil all the tile Indians away So powerful were the sermons of ot this medicine man that he was as reinstated among his people turning many litany away aWn from Crom following the missionaries Thin Thill Mr Ir Hovey nays Is a tradition Tho rho interesting question Is whether the stone book really is a specimen of ot very or ancient literature or whether It Is II a 1 hoax perpetrated by b a clever medicine man mati It Is conceivable that the mis missionaries referred to would regard It as asa I Ia asa a hoax and that the th tradition as to that point would originate with them Just ns as the most precious Maya 1011 doc doe documents documents came caRte to be bo looked upon a III gis Idol abominations on the tho testimony of fit fanatical Spanish monks It U la III i quite certain that thiat tho the medicine m man if It ho spoke loko aa us attributed to him hitta by tradition had tho thie spirit of ot prophecy For fire 1110 WilIer water anti and fire weapons wuI on great troubles and quarrels have certainly followed the path of oC tho Ito missionaries until today tola there Is but a IL remnant left heft of ot the th native races If It an all Indian ut uttered uttered uttered this prophecy centuries ago 00 that thatIs in Is ns liS as the finding of ot n II book written on clay CIa tablets thousands of or years ago and containing similar pre pro predictions dictions be he I |