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SKELETON IN EARTHED NEAR TYLERLast week while loading gravel from the pit a mile south of town, for the road. Peter Beck unearthed a skeleton about four feet below the sutface of the ground. From all indications the body had been buried without any ceremony as it lay in a somewhat cramped position with the head towards the south and the hones as far as could be determined were those of an elderly person, possibly a woman, as nothing was found at or near the remains to tell the tale of the grave diggers.We may speculate as to whether the skeleton was that of an Indian or a white person. Possibly it may have been buried by the Indians roaming the prairies to and from their hunting and fishing grounds around Lake Benton, or it may have been one of the early pioneers, who with the extreme and covered wagon wending their way across the prairies in the early sixties or another theory may be advanced that a crime had been committed and the body buried in the sand and gravel to hide it.But one thing remains certain, that a great change has been wrought on the prairies since the body was first buried, and that no men in autos dug the grave like on this occasion when Mr. Hermanson, with the assistance of Jens Beck and Peter Beck, of Hope placed the bones in the ground again a short distance from the place where they were discovered in the same hill so many years their resting place.— Tyler Herald.
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Askov American
Askov, Minnesota, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1917
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