The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-25
BONES OF A GIANT RACE

ISSUING OF u Nlne-Eoot Father, a Mother
Nearly as Tall. and an Infant That Must
Have Measured Five Feet.
lFrom the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
While Minnesota as a state is getting
fairly we'll along in years, as western
states go, still there are many large
tracts over which white men have not
Travelled to any extent, and about
which little is known, except as frag-
mentary information has been brought
in by hunters and guides who have had
occasion to pass over the territory.
This is particularly true of the extreme
| northern portion of the state, which,
until gold was found there, was as lit
tie known as We're the vast Wilderness
es to the west when the Pilgrim Faith
ers landed at Plymouth Rock.
The steady rush of settlers to this
section and of the gold seekers to the
regions further north has resulted in
| opening up many thousands of acres Of
entirely new country and placing be-
fore the world a farming territory as
rich as any in the United States and
| mineral deposit SO wonderful and va
rled in its charactr- that no one may
say the end has yet been reached.
| With the martial settlement of this new
country have come MANY strange finds.
showing that at one time in the dark
past the northern section of this state
was inhabited by men and animals OF
which the present generation knows
nothing, except what scientists and
searchers after the curious may say.
The country around Ely is particu-
larly rich iy, relies of the mast iudginp
| from the MANY finds made bv various
people since farms have opened up
here, Scarcely day masses but some
new discovery IS made and the relics
are particularly Interesting ia those
who have delyad info fine records of the
mustv mast ~ anv extent There ia
evidence to show that at one time This
country was neonled nv men of tremen-
dous size and nv animals in comnarj-
son with which the elenhants Of the
circus of to-dav would saen like Mo
| mics There is also evidence to show
| that the neonIe who then rpled the
| country were not Nero bAwers of wood
and drawers of water hut nossessed
| skill in various directions
Thomas ucKinetar bae recentlv
taken nm a farm, naa, tho n,outb ~ the
Little Forl, River in Ttasca comfy
| AT one corner of his farm stood knoll
possihlv one hundred and fiftv wards
across covered with. a, heavy growth ~
nine. on ton of this knoll YVES hinge
bird or rather the outlines of one
made Of stone not found in anv other
locality In the state 81 far az known
l
that the place was once a buryine
ground Of a nrehistoric race Human
bones of great size were found and the
positions Indicated that the original
owners thereof had been hurled in sit
ting posture. 1t was an easy matter to
distinguish the homes Of the male from
those of the female for thew were
llareer. more massive and had IRE
served their shane better. In some
cases the bones fell to pieces at the
slightest to1ch while in ntbers thew
vera soft and sponey the earth seam
lingly HAVING. entered the cavities for
merIv occupied bv the marrow and
furnished a sunnort for the shells
In one grave were found the homes OF
what were once nrobah1v farther moth
or and child Tho huge homes of tbe
male were abnut font distant from
those of the woman and child which
were IocIxea in a close embrace as
though the mother had drawn tho IN
font IN no., boeo,,, i,,s+ bafora aa,+h
came The larger homes vere those of
a man who in life mpst have haen
r..r1, ;f ~ en-, ~, foot 4, ho,ah+
while those of tho uop.n sbouoa ~,
she had hnen no dyvarf meoeuring az
thew did eight feet four inches from tho
hottom of tho boros IF tho Foot IN tho
ton of tho slyull which was larger fat
for ana considerab,v bes1,ier than the
skulls of the neon1e of to-day
Tho child must have baen vary
voung for tic homes wont to nieces "a
soon az exnosed to tho air and covered
tha homes of tho n,otbar vitt fine
white nowder Nv measurinp the o,t :
lines of tho homes of tho child If was
found that tho infant had been nearly
five feet in height which is really MT
so bad for child Of tender wears In
the skull of the woman was a hia dent
between and s1;obtIv above tho ewes
showing that she had met death in a
violent manner nv tho sida of the
man lav STONE voanon sbanad Soma.
| thing 1il,e an ao,o with a danression ON,
around ono end l., which q. tborg miobt
have bean twisted II was of the samo
kind of s+ona 40 tbo bird on ton of tho
knoll or mound tard h1,e-oolorad