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Show ! Indian Skeleton SkeletonUnearthed SkeletonUnearthed Unearthed by byWaterworks byWaterworks Waterworks Crew CrewThat That Vernal in i , e dim past has hasbPen hasbeen hasbeen bPen been an Indian burial bunal ground round was wasagain wasagain again demonstrated dt'monstrated dtmonstrated ' Monday when whenworkmen whenworkmen whenworkmen workmen digting digging trenches for the thenew thenew thenew new water mairLs mains near the fair fairbrolllld fairirounds fairgrounds theI I brolllld irounds , . r i ncovered the skeleton of ofI ofan ofan ofan I an aged IndlanAt Indian Indlan IndianAt IndianAt At a point about 40 Inches be below below below low the thf > surface workmen workmf"n workmfn " dug Into Intoth.e Intothe intoHie th.e the . skeleton kl'll'ton klllton ' ' the thp pick breaking tweaking breakingsome tweakingsome breakingsome some partly decomposed rib bones bonesJust bonesJust bonesJust Just at the edge of at tlie the trench the theskull theskull skull . , kul ! was carefully uncoveredlA uncoveredLeo uncovered uncoveredLeo lA > Leo 0 C Thorne was called and andtook andtook andtook took photographs of the skull skuil as asIt asit asIt It waa W9 was . ' ! exposed When taken out outthe outthe outthe the skull was almost alm05t perfect The Theteeth Theteeth Theteeth teeth told tlie the age as they had hadworn hadworn hadworn worn down to the gums Mr MrThorne MrThorne MrThorne Thorne looked carefully for tor artsdes artl arts artlcle'l articles cle'l clel des . ' to try to determine the age ageoC ageof ageof oC of the burial burlal but none were dis dls discovered dlscovered discovered discoveredAbout covered coveredAbout About two years yeBr ' > ago a skeleton skeletonwas skeletonwas skeletonwas was found fOWld about 100 yards , distant distanttrom distantfrom distantfrom trom from this one while white digffing digging ' a atrench atrench atrench trench to a home This makes the theseventh theseventh theseventh seventh or eighth skeleton which whichhas whichhas whichhas has been uncovered Wlcovered In the trenches trenchestor trenchesfor trenchesfor tor for water and sewer pipe through throughout throughout throughout out the different sections of the thetown thetown thetown thetownIt town townIt It Is Mr Thorne s opinion that thatthere thatthere thatthere there have been several dUferent different differentivillzatlons dUferentcivilizations differentcivilizations civilizations ivillzatlons of ot Indians residing in inthe Inthe Inth the valley from a few hundred hundredyears hundredyears hundredyears years back to everal several thousand as asindicated asLndicated asIndicated indicated Lndicated by the different difterent burial burialcustoms burialustoms buriajcustoms customs ustoms : found tound here |