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Show An Iult'reatliig lleltr. fl A spoilsman who lecently ruturneil UmW from n hunting trip in tho Indian Na- HM tion, brouglit with him lo Wichita, fJH Knn , nn Interesting relic, which ho tils- iimU entered hulf buried on the bnnk of n jH creek in the Cliorokee strip, forty mllea lLA west of fond ereek The rello Is an H old rifle bntrcl. On it Is the Inscription: SH "Old Jl Ike Jiiiios, prokente.l by Kit Cur- ;- H son, 1S.0." Ou the side of the barrel is ( tho woul "sculps," followed by twenty - m tin eo file marks. Around tho spot Tmt where tho barrel lay buried were the KH boiiobof horses und men and two bkulls. 7'tH Tho 'find piobably roveaU the futo of fl Miko Jones, who is lemumbcrod us u fM luoinber of Kit Cun.on'b advendirous iimm baud, ami who, ulxint I6i)a, niyslerious- !m ly dlsappeuied fiom his winter haunts, 'm and has never been heard of since. Tho jH bones lying around tlie old rlllo probu- H bly tell a silent tale or an Indian attack L and a raising otsealpk. H |