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Show I BEAVER STUDENTS FIND S.KELETON Students of the fifth grade ' I at Belknap Elementary School in Beaver made a grisly find ! Monday when they were on a ; spring hike in the hills south of Beaver. I One of the girls, strolling down a hillside, kicked a round, smooth rock. When she picked it up she let out a war-whoop war-whoop and threw the rock ! ; down the hill. It was a skull. The students dug up and gathered a quantity of bones of the skeleton and took them to their classroom. Sheriff Mel Tait, who went to the scene to investigate, said he believed the skeleton to be that of an Indian, and that it had apparently appar-ently been buried face down in a shallow grave. An arrow-bead arrow-bead found with the skeleton led to the belief the Indian had been killed. Old timers of Beaver recall stories of a battle among Indian In-dian tribes in the vicinity of the find, many years ago, and stories that after the battle the dead were left lying on the ground. White settlers are said to have gone to the scene and buried the victims in a common com-mon grave. |