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Show FOUND 8l':LETOri8 OP 1NDIAN8. Workmen Unearth Evidence of Epl. demlc or Massacre. In digging n canal, which Is to carry water from tho el river power sta-tlon sta-tlon of tho Snow Mountain Water company, com-pany, a gang unearthed au old Indian cemetery in the Hush ranch when tho plow turned up n human skull a fow feet below the surface, says tho Baltimore Balti-more American. Further Investigation Investiga-tion revealed many moro skill's and a dozen were plowed up In making tho cut. Indications nro that' there are several sev-eral hundred skeletons there. Two aro now protruding from the side of .the bank, one with its head toward tho east nnd the other lying in tho opposite direction, contrary to Indian custom. No implements of war or other things were found In tho graves, and this, as well as tho helter-skeltor way th? bodies appear to havo been piled in, is taken as an indication that they wero burled after nn epidemic or massacre. Old Imllnns of tho Porno tribe say that tho Tartars once exterminated the Chamawa tribe, only two Biirvlv-In?. Biirvlv-In?. The Tartars and Chamawas wero wnillku and encroached on tho Pomns, who had no vrarriors, hut tilled the soil and made Las'.iets. |