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Show EARLY INDIAN PESTLE FOUND FAR UNDERGROUND SPOKANE. Wash . Ib. 1 That Indans lived ln the vicinity oT what now Spoksne more than a thousand v. ars ago Is believed to be Indicated i by the recent discovery of Indian: ' stone pestles, an implement, used in grinding corn and other grains, spver ; i fed undr the earth by workmen . m ating for a basement here. Four of the pestlea t.nind hae been examined by nuseuni experts who de . lure thorn to be very old The sp,, near where th' ) WgPS munil Is near a large spring which alwaxs has been the fcone of Indian encampments and large pine tree1 were growing over the 1 area. "Those pestles were no! aged b ih.: I recent Indian tribes such as the Nez Perce, YaklmaJ Spokane or Kootenai j Indians." said T. A. Ilonst l , curator of ( the Spokane museum in a discussion it following their unearthinc " Th wore probably used by Indians. wb nt lived in the Inland empire several cen- f turles. perhaps a thousand years ago. f "Indians do not bury their dead fit deep in ihe ground as these pestle. . jH 'were lound. Also, there are uo indict ,H tions of a grave where ihe pestle.-. Tl wore unarth-d and it seems almost il certan they were left on the surface j IH of the ground by the people who use.1. jH tbem. later being embedded in the ; ,H clay deposits and covered by pina fl |