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Show FISHERMAN DROPS INTO INDIAN TOMB roRTIAND. Ore., June 14 V. P i ' fish tales, but thla asparlenea, aamered while seeklnar bait, la voucn.3 for by tw men whose veraelty la unouee-tloned, unouee-tloned, not ta menllon tha fact loat they brought back lha erldeac. i. prove the yarn. .Wiu,,,!lt mni - Buraren. both of Portlatit raa out ef bait while fiahlna- the l.lttl. Whlta Balmaa. 0,r Hrevenaon. Haahlna-toa. They aouaht more la an opea field. flurSen. hla . lentlon arreeted by a aeat i aaale. worme, heard I'ratt ahaui. aad turned to aee him disappear Inle a yawalna hole, whoae eilalanre aelther had aa. peeled. rJuraen found hla eompanl .a am In aatunlahment from the deoiha of the cavity soma alz feet deep. Tha two eaamlned It. Ury. rounded aa If a well had been atarted. .nd covered over with a llal t roof through which Watt tad walk lid the hole contained a mummified . a. ure and th, tracea of two mora Wrapped In blanket, which had be. come rotten with ae. they found tha UW1 Z' V J1""! boy- Th "-mlfled "-mlfled heed of an Indian woman alao was discovered, and a bundle whu-u appeared to hava been the little fic. ure of a papoose. The woman's body and that ef the rhlld had succumbed to the ravages of time, hut that of tha boy. apparently mere skillfully eii-halmed, eii-halmed, was remarkably well pra-served. pra-served. The hoy's body and tha woman'a head wero brought back to Portland aa turloa. Doth faces hava h'ah cheek ' bones and flat noaas and hair, a typical typi-cal Indian black, atlll adheres to tha woman's scalp, Both akulta were I ound about with strips of buckaaln. The teeth were In fair condition. The else of the boya hones Indicated Indi-cated that he waa about It yeara of age a, the time of death. A metal rlnc enrlrrled the left Index flnarer aa the boy's hand. Pratt aald he noticed nothlne- peculiar pecu-liar about the ground before he stepped ppon the plot snd received his somewhat some-what abrupt Introduction to thta relto of the paat, which he faced Jowl to jowl : at the completion of hla Journey to tha bottom of the hole without warning No writing of any kind waa found ta the tomb, which might have given aa Idea how long the bodies had been burled. The hole, which was oa tha sreond ledge above the Columbia river north of the North Bank tracka, waa ao aklllfully eonatrueted and aeourely sealed aa to make proaervat Ion of tha bodlea eaally poaaible for a g-reat aaaav yiurt, according to Pratt. ' |