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Show DISCOVER SKELETON OF CLIFF DWELLER SPOKANE, Wash., May IS. Discovery Dis-covery of the skeleton of What is supposed sup-posed to have been an Indian, burled In a sitting posture, at the mouth of the Little Spokane river, north of this city, is believed by Dr H. C. Meyers of Whltworth college faculty, to indicate the presence of cliff dwellers in this vicinity in a previous ago. he announced today. Only cliff dwellers are known to have burled their dead in this mi inner. in-ner. Dr. Meyers said. He estimated that the body had been buried about 800 years. The site of its discovery was near an old salmon hole on the river and In tho vicinity of the former for-mer location of a block house, now under tho river bed. |