Show TH E ev I 1 T N E ja y s J AN JEWE ILL A L 14 TO BE BIE S D BY P 11 t ce 4 t 1 X burrington DUFF INGTON PH 10 ay 3 THE ca 4 HE mind Is staggered the imagination atrophied in contemplation of the lost treasures of the east gold silver and jewels which lie in the graves of dead emperors in the ruins of ancient capitals render runder centuries of desert dust and in the forgotten mountain temples almost any one of them sufficient in amount to make the true adventurer who finds them abaz singly rich the east today Is wealthy in guts wil ornament and pre clois stones but think waise at it must baye have been four thousand or even eight hun dwerl years ago when it was the world s center of a adif the 1 most elusive clues to any of these very bovat treasures Is what Is now called the spaulding qui rw bearing the name of the young american who dis a Li epro probably bably forever three years ago while trying im a trail with two hillmen to what is calr cie famous mountain of the tombs of the great ot of st years ago news came out of that a young a a named spaulding had found two young tribes m in the market of that city endeavoring to sell hand ats et X buge huge diamonds rubies rubles and pearls and had learn ass d abat the two men had feind them in cave graves in tle many miles to the northeast evidently aass lios tombs of the khans and that there were tons dl tonai af the treasure left behind this first report to be inaccurate VS is little peculiarity of the he native correspondents of papers that they are rather devoid of 1 a their reports fell infinitely short of or satisfy satisfying in who ewh worldwide wide demand tor for more details the pread to morocco and an ail english author Amdi traveler a fellow ot of the koyal royal geographical comly who was more interested in the archago aqel research in that section than in the j ray 7 ws cr he the vast treasures tried through the lon papers to get more definite data but the mat Sw tail been teem forgotten by that time or was treated W a jola Q months before the truth was forthcoming 11 was found that spaulding bringing the two f had bad arrived in from samar I 1 by ray caravan from kashmar and that the won lind find was approximately sixty miles north of the kashmir border instead of ww ima dav to in the chinese portion of ia abt in other words in the heart of almost and arod unknown asia was the amut of touch wirch with the outside world and had come there to raise money and t sla mIze an expedition this he had little trou brou S sm ft luding for all that part of the world has t dr caming tor for centuries of the recovery of e ja agures of the khans he was mas last heard t j lame gears ago and it Is now believed that sam emu d the men with him died somewhere in the fit ids cs ec the p me unadorned tale of the adventure of the r wal men reads like a chapter from the arab j smut cin NY kats gats the two men belonged to a trading szn and being dissatisfied left it and set azef car which Is a town on the J I 1 one of the main tributaries of the a a m stir carn draining a region twice the size ax a atta blate of texas and emptying into the lob skor nor vach has no visible outlet they got lost r I 1 t att the mountains and turned into a trail hewn mm the rock wide enough for but two men to pass traveling for some time along the e sele they came to a great cave with a number vair buge images in a row before the door the entrance was a square open portal and were a series of tombs each with its pock deft ft the rock filled with many objects of gret they eald said that they saw more than eno agh stones to load sixty camels yet all that asmey could bring away with them was what they f f pat into tle receptacles of their clothing arul a rimmy cf of these they lost before they found svan the regular route to they made a tul observations of the trail and left heaps at vac saimes to mark it tor a certainty even when tiey they came to a greta cave with a number imie value of their theft find emen discovered by spaulding be had great m persuading anem to go with him he to tx organize an expedition in markind as alvy reached the market town they had no idea was danger of his being murdered and i by the thin half savage men he would have had aw aa employ there are many persons in the re believe that he found the tombs secured A of the treasure went on into the brit indian state of nepal and was robbed and dered there as many very large stones and of tartar worked gold have been coming beat df tt hat that state in the past two years without amy adequate source being ascribed to them ea fei to just south of the region described that aba Kara koram mountains lie but where Is the emt efty of Cara carum or Kara koram the an capital of the great tartar state where me enormous treasures lost at the time of its history shows that it was a very jarma atone stone built city that it stood within sight aa feast of the mountains that bear its name and thatah was the wealthiest of all the cities of eon asia marco polo visited it on his famous W about 1292 A D and on his return to described it in detail to his chronicler brit imd Rus t eight hundred years ago it was the capital ot of aa taa t tartar empire and literally reeked with wal um u all established under the financial genius acamo strange half mythical character presbyter csc ae drester john barco marco polo told of rooms in iwah the decorations were heavy emboss ings in seam val and silver set with great jewels and his show that he was surfeited with the tf daft of the wealth displayed rae city tell fell before the assaults ase aults of the wild it ahe the ambitious and ruthless or previous to the attack all the treasure fast could be assembled was put under the great in the center of the city and when the L 1 15 k iw 41 ji X ta k at 4 t A 1 V 4 4 r i e ab IL defenders were driven away they took the secret of the hiding place with them and later were eith er made slaves or killed collected much treasure and removed it to chandu but he did not get the great hidden store of wealth though he laid the city in ruins and filled a whole tower with prisoners whom he roasted alive in ven geanice today no man seems competent to say where those ruins lie and no one has gone over the old records to trace out the geographical geographical points that are known and fixed in relation to the unknown site of the lost city whose treasure would mould run into the hundreds of millions it Is thought to be in turkestan Turk estan equally uncertain Is the spot where lie the ruins of the splendid summer capital of clande marco polo even furnished a more more or les less acau rate map ot of the city proper it was mas in cathal and built in the bend of a great river with miles of defenses on the banks and extending toward the mountains behind it in many ways its de corresponds to the modern town of khotan in turkestan Turk estan on the khotan river yet other indications point to leh in kashmir on the indus river and it may mean gunduz on the great amu daria darla river a stream as long as the ohio but in so remote a part of 0 the world that it Is rarely even heard of genghis khan which mearis means chief of all chiefs was Temu djin a mongol and chieftain of the gol den hordes his domain in 1203 comprised all of china turkestan Turk estan persia and koptchak or south era ern russia and it was about this time that he established his summer captian at chandu here it was that he instituted the peculiar system of flat money which made gold pieces playthings for the children of the poor hound round pieces of the inner bark of the mulberry tree were stamped with the royal mark and so passed current as money within the bounds of the country all trading was done with these pieces of bark back ed by the force of imperial arms instead of by a treasury reserve merchants came in caravans from all western asia bringing gold jewels and merchandise of all sorts and all these they exchanged for mulberry bark fiat flat money and with it bought freight for their caravans the result was that finally all the gold and jewels of all drifted in thin but steady streams to clande and stagnated there decreasing in value till they were useless they were stored in vaults and buried in great caches in tens of million dollars worth when the em pire fell the flat money became useless the pos sensors of the gold were being slaughtered and driven oft off as slaves leaving the treasure behind them in quantities too great for the mind to corn com where Is it nowa now in what dust drifted valley what student of oriental literature and european accounts will trace out the location of and recover the vast hidden fortunes some one will doubtless uncover a very large treasure in the natural course of events in or about the strange gigantic castle of marld at el cowf arabia every new advance made by the antiquarians and the biblical scholars makes it a little more clear and certain that here lies a board lioard that is one of the richest in the world in a large oasis supporting the largest tion of northern arabia el joet Is a peculiarly isolated spot best reached by riding from the mecca pilgrimage railway or by caravan from ithema the castle stands to the north a monster pile of ruined sandstone now utterly deserted and feared and shunned by the joftes of the region they say strange sights and are to be seen and heard there at night and that once a year before the feast of ramazan all the blood that has been spilt split about it oozes up from the ground making a great red pool around the fortress and dripping from the walls till daylight the earia arabian ch eh ettkins were great looters hunters and hiders of treasure and the traditions are that el haap one of th builders of the cas tie ile during a life that extended over more than one hundred years spent his entire time not only in robbing all the rich caravans within ing distance of el cowf and in warring marring on his neighbors but in tracing out the traditions of all the tribes and in this work guided by dreams and visions he recovered vast quantities of treas ure bringing it all to el cowf and biding hiding it in the castle twenty five years ago this tale was pet pst in the same category with the entertaining yarns of the arabian nights but earh year of study of the refits of the ancient peoples of egypt arabia and palestine F produces c corroborative evidence in carvings writings and traditions that el hadj was a great treasure collector that the supposed fabulous hoards he Is supposed to have found once existed and that so far there thero Is nothing to show that el hadj was ever despoiled or that bis his treasures were found and dissipated by his sue censors carroll neide brown in 1898 1896 or 1897 discovered nineteen greek inscriptions built into the outer face of the acropolis at athens in that corner where there are evidences of turkish or roman repairs these inscriptions have been translated after a great deal of study of the older languages and they tell of the stowing away of many gold and silver silvor vessels and in many cases give the local tand the date of the burial ot of them there a cre re the troves ot of nineveh babylon tyre and sidon the gold of ophir of solomon and of the eastern emperors in eleven cases the dates of caches location and the value are given and there Is inscribed a note of a treasure which Is interred with a vase dedicated to athena near the Erect heum twenty years before the finding of this tablet by carroll belde brown the vase referred to was found but the treasure was not it Is expected that great discoveries will be made at Hessa elek and alalea by foll following oming out the dl di erections lons ions of the ancient greeks it has been said that the life of the dutch sol 01 dier of today consists of three periods anxiety over and enthusiasm concerning the lite life of in un dation dreams of the buried treasure of asoera bayan temples figuring off the days till pens on time one portion of this is literally true so far as it pertains to the troopers sent out to sumatra java and ta tie e other islands after they have been properly drilled and seasoned in holland over one hundred thousand men are maintained in the dutch possessions in the east indies where there has been constant warfare for over one hundred years though the world pays it no attention what unless a post gets wiped out and then there are a few lines in the world s morning cable news and that Is all on the way out the soldier will begin to hear aboard ship of concealed treasures in the strange land to which he goes and never an hour of the time he serves in the tropics will he be free from the sense that at any moment he may pick up the clue to vast wealth many men have gone home wealthy as the result of smaller finds and always I 1 always there is the possibility just in front front of their noses noces strictly speaking the treasure haunted temples are not those near Soe alone for front fron achenn in sumatra to kaupang in timor one Is never sure when one is not walking over the site of a cache from some temple or shrine not far away awai the mountains are a continuous ridge in the ct colter iter of the long narrow islands and in the dense growth of the sides stand old buildings of uncertain age though it Is now believed that they were built some twelve hundred years ago at the time of the conquest of the islands by people of aryan blood and buddhist belief from india A great and prosperous empire once existed there falling at last before disease and insular wars when the final calamity was at hand and raid ing piratical bands according to the old sanskrit records were devastating the realm be the priests in each locality were compelled to despoil every temple and shrine of the great wealth of jewels gold eold and silver and hide it in the earth in caves in the mountains then came the moslem raiders and that was the end of all hope of ever i ing to the temples the gold and silver overlaid work and to the eyes ears and fingers of the idols the beautiful jewels taken from them gradually the secret of each cache has perished save in one or two localities where buddhist priests have been able to remain contin and pass the secrets on from generation to gen all through the east indies are places where pirates have hidden treasure one of these is on the island of celebes on fhe the strait side where the great dyak robber sauk bulan put in with his aroas and pintas and according to the british admiralty records took all of his wealth ashore and came boldly out to fight the sloop of dfwar war nestor only to be blown out of the water by her guns As nearly as this can be traced it was at the mouth of a little river that runs down to the sea between and caloa |