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Show RELICS OF THE INDIANS. Interesting Discoveries Made in the State of Maine. A rare treat has been offered Indian , relic hunters at Kineo during the past week. The work of grading in front o( the hotel lias been undertaken and the plows and harrows have unearthed hundreds of arrowheads, many spearheads spear-heads and various crude flint tools. I Tradition has it that the ground being ' broken up was formerly a burying j ground of the Indians who came here : from all sections of the country many years ago to secure dir.; from the V mountains for the purpose of making arrowheads, spearheads, tomahawks and crude stone tools. It is also said that many a battle had been fought in this vicinity and valuable Indian relics !have been discovered here from time to time by curio hunters, but never before be-fore in this sect. on have as many evidences evi-dences been unearthed at one time. ; The ground being broken up lies di- j rectly in front of the Kineo house. It is the high bank which backs the point known to fishermen as the "Pine Trees." It is evident that the Indians in former times camped on this point, which was then covered with the for-"' for-"' est, and there worked the flint into definite forms. The ground from six to eighteen inches beneath the sod is literally alive with evidences to this j effect. Kennebec Journal. |