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Show THE CUSTER BATTLEFIELD. The Vnburied Bodies Found by Captain Sweet and Company. Fort Cl'stkr, Mont., May 14 Captain Cap-tain Owen J. Sweet, Twentylifth infantry, in-fantry, who, with his company is setting set-ting the hcitdstoues over the graves of Custer's men who fell in the. battle of the Little Big Horn June 23. 1878, has discovered three bodies that hud never been huried. One of the skeletons still had on parts of a United States uniform, uni-form, showing that lie had been a private pri-vate soldier. The body was found in a clump of bushes near where Custer lirst attempted at-tempted to cross the Little Big Horn and. no doubt, is tho remains of one of Calhoun's company. He had probably been badly wounded, crawled into the brush and there died. The skulls of tho other two men had been broken in above tho eyes as if done by a stone mallet. A spur of un officer, of peculiar pecu-liar construction, a foot of a boy of about twelve years old, no doubt Otto Reid's foot, a top boot, to get her with sonio brass buttons marked "M. D." (medical department) and several sev-eral other relics were found on the ftlcld. The buttons arc thought to be ', those from tho uniform of Dr. Do Wolf, who was killed with Custer. The' setting set-ting of the head-stones over the spot where each man fell will be completed on the 12th. The finding of three more bodies has led to the belief that there are still others unburicd and a thorough search of the field and vicinity will be made. This makes seven bodies that have been found and buried, four hav ing been discovered hist fall by Scout J. A. Campbell and Winriold Brisbine, the general's son, who were searching for battlelicld relics, |