Show mysterious SKELETON AT STEELING STERLING mr samuel killpack went to manit and sterling last week and gives u the following very interesting in formation dan funk Is the watchman of the reservoir at sterling last fall a very heavy rain loosened a big rock and caused it to give and fall from its place in the space it occupied some human bones were exposed to view and dan investigated he found the skeleton of a woman very well preserved she had on six dresses on on top of the other a hole like a rifle shot was thru all six in the same relative position and a dark brown stain around the hole giving reality to the thought that she was killed by a bullet her hair was tine fine jet black not coarse and about a foot long some of it still to the skull the material of the dresses was wag not cheap calico but some better tho figured material well made of a good fashion and pleasing pattern A patch in one of the dresses waa was put on so skillfully as to excite ad mi ration among her effects was one of the ald oval powder cans like the ones men of age can kemem ber mere in existence a long long time ago holding say about a pound of powder when in use the cap of this powder can was ot of lead and bore the imprint of the factory ev by what Is still readable the word michigan there were two cups in the grave one being the old fashioned conical kind more a weighing cup with a handle long since rotted oft off but the scare where the handle had been are to be seen one toot foot was still in the macca sin A purse was found inside ot of which were five bullets ot of the old round ball kind of several genera eions ago hand cast in a mould and the spew of the cast still plain on every one of them and the little round dingus at the top cut oft off by the slide of the mould all who have cast bullets by hand understand this la 14 tha jurss tot rate a silk small one and a bead fob of usual mexican or indian handiwork A round bullet betokens a smooth bore gun before rifling was in vogue one relic in the grave bears es pedal interest it was an ear ring of plated gold so well preserved that the hinge joint can now be op aerated easily and the clasp still ef the ear ring is a pendant shaped like a wide crescent moo well made a factory product not a made piece in the grave was also the remain der of a saddle horn lined with alf talo falo hide the forks of the tree made from pitch pine not a manufactured article apparently now the solve the mystery it if you can a woman six dresses on a natural death or shot laid away with all her possessions was she spanish of means an indian no or yesa how long ago agoa and all the other thousand questions that arise hundreds of people have seen this mysterious find from professors in the colleges to the tho ordinary curious and analysis has been made of some of the things to determine accurate ly what they were gold heavy tin plate four times as thick aa as we use now on tin plated ware and the analysts say blood stains on the var loua tous dresses 11 i fc the best judges place the time at isay approximately a hundred years ago it la Is very interesting and very baffling of solution jack killpack accompanied hia his father over there |