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I III JDISCOVER BONES ,OF INDIANWorkers in Gravel Pit West of Her* Turn Up Complete Skeleton, Aeeca- k panied by Arrowhead and Spears.William 13 raid and others were engaged 1 making excavations in a gravel pit thia morning, about one mile we*t of Berry• ville, thev unearthed a skeleton, no doubfe tluit of an Indian. probably buried thert j lifty or sixty years ago. when Racine ' was it wilderness and no settlement of \ any account pro vailing in and around ?Berry vi lie. !Mr, Hrnid states that it is a full skeleton. but that part* of the bones cxum- . pled away when exposed to the air. Tha jaw bone was picked out with three teeth in it and there was also found nine teeth and pieces of the arm and leg bones and a number of ribs.Close to the bones was dug out two largo stone spears, or arrowheads* tea i and one half inches long and several other smaller one*. All of the bones it w** possible 10 pick up were taken to tha home of Mr. Braid, west of Berry rille.So far as known there never was M cemetery of any kind in this locality and no * mound*. Where the gravel piti is situated, however, there is quite ta elevation. The oldest inhabitant at Ber* rwilK* cannot remember the time whcrt Indians were around that section, butt there were x'uros of ihom along the Root river in this city and hundreds were bnr« ried where Mound cemetery s* located* t_ iROADS DEDAY FREIGHT RAISE
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Racine Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Aug 18, 1908
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