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Show oo BONES OF CHINESE TO BE SENT TO REST IN CHINA Salt lflke July 12. In an hermetically hermet-ically sealed tin casket the bones ot eight Chinese who have died In Salt Lake during the past quarter of a century will be sent to San Francisco today under direction of tbelr living Chinese relatives In Salt lake With the bones of the bodies of many other Chinese who have died In other parts oi thf- I nlted States they will bo sent back to final resting places In tb" Celestial empire during early Septem ber A big steamer, entirely under Chinese management, has been engaged en-gaged to transport the remains from the California metropolis to China Work of exhuming the bodies of. the eight Chinese commenced at t o'clock Thureda morning at i he City cemeter Apparently observing i the office as a religious festival, more than a score of Chinese assembled I at the cemetery to watch the grave diggers unearth the skeletons of their dead The Chinese themselves la beled them with Indelible ink The work of exhuming the bodies was ompleted yesterday, when the bones were placed in the tin rnaket and hermetically sealed. Sexton P A. Hill supervised the removal of the bodies |