New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-11-23
Indian Relioe IN Nains.

O10 VI tu0 must lQt0r0Stl0& lOC1lC01
and one Of tile latest unearthed In this
vicinity Is the Indian place Of execution
or torture GU Fort Island at the mar.
rows, near the mouth Of the Damaris.
Gotta RIVER. A few days ago. while
Postmaster Carnage and Mr.. Phelps
were hunting for relics ct the above
named place. they discovered among
numerous fish spears, needles and ar-
rowlleads, the remains Of i've skele-
tons. apparently Indians-the skulls
showing y very low order Of intellect
one skull Of which they were able to
get out nearly perfect, which 10 now In
the possession Of DR.. Chapman. They
found five under-jaws, one OF them
nearly perfect but mono Of them would
fit the skulls. One skull was very
large; they judged It to be nearly
twice tho seize Of the average. but 50
far decayed that with tho utmost care
it could not be moved from the place
where it lay. These skeletons did not
lie In any regular order. but appeared
TO have been burned ct . stake, &c q
space Of six feet square or more was
covered with ashes, charcoal and rocks
that had been exposed to FIRE. The
skulls were nearly face down and but
few other bones could be removed
whole. The appearance indicated that
there had been numerous victims
burned at different times, and the
whole was covered with an accumula-
ton of earth and shells in four distinct
layers one foot in depth. They also
found pottery, the skulls of deer and
jaws of bears, and one large stag or elk
horn. There is no doubt but that dill
gent search will reveal further evidence
Of place of savage torture.-Dan,aris.
Gotta (Me.) Herald.
Western Bonan1as.
The 6as,, is in receipt of number of
exchanges from the states and terrific
ries where silver and gold mining is in
dnlged in, and to read the reports of
the rich strikes that are being made
every hour in tho day and night, and
the millions upon millions of dollars
worth of ore that is in sight, all ready
to knock off with q club, we are led to
wonder how it is that there is poor
man anywhere west of the Missouri riv-
or. It would seem that every man
must have all the money he wants, and
yet we are told that even in Colorado
there arc men who are not rich, men
who even suffer for the necessaries of
life. Men who have mines that are full
of ore assaying hundreds of dollars to
the ton actually fail in business at
times. The fact is that while there is
silver in plenty out there, it takes as
much work to get it as it does to raise
crops of grain on the farm, and where
one strikes it rich ninety and nine walk
home on their uppers. The most of the
money that is made in mining is made
from those who carry money to the
mines from the states. Ninety-nine
times in q hundred not enough is struck
to pay for the time fooled away, and
the abandoned hole is all that anybody
has to show for the outlay. It is esti-
mated that in twenty years Colorado
will be one vast gopher hole. A few
men will be rich and settle down in
Denver and other pretty places and live
and die, while hundreds of thousands
will 60 somewhere else and dig more
holes, or occupy graves with no marks
to show who they were, and people in
the states who sent their money and
didn't 60, will thank their stars. Wis
consin should stop sending money out
west.-PecEs Sun.