Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-22
WYONlNC'S ANCIENT STIFF
Remains of the Oldest Inhabitant Found or
the Banks of Bitter Greek.
THE BAD MAN A MISSING LINZ
Darwfninn Theory Given n Fresh I'm,
petus by the Discovery of u
New Observation-Disclosures Bones
Starts Learned SpecuIntioHs.

Prof. j. l.. Workman, paleontologist Of Co.
lumbia college, New York, and one of the lead
Ing scientific scholars of the world, arrived in
Denver Sunday. says the Rocky Mountain
News. The professor is on his way home
after an expedition Of six months along the
northern and western line of Colorado. He
was accompanied on the trip by a party of
Columbia college students, who have pre-
coded him on the way east. The object of
the summers work was to look up several
missing links" which are required in the
museum of natural history in Central park.
New York. The object was attained. In
addition the expedition made a discovery that
cannot fail to create a profound sensation
in the scientific world.
H ORIGINAL" MAN.
Prof. Workman has brought to light "the
original man." The bones Of this much
wanted individual are now en- route to New
York. They are wrapped in cotton and
never, perhaps, was a package more carefully
prepared for a long journey by rail. When
1t is remembered that the precious bones
were the framework of a being that lived
and moved 1,5OO, 900 years ago and the skele-
ton Is the only one Of the period that has
ever been found, the Importance of the dis
covery may be estimated. In the opinion of
the lucky finders Of the ancient relic, those
dry bones establish beyond peradventure the
truthfulness Of the Darwinian theory. From
the time the long neglected skeleton is
mounted in the ~freproof museum in New
York, the world of science and letters must
bow its acknowledgment to the doctrine that
the claims of the eyolutionists are based on
fact.
FROM SOUTHERN WYOMING.
Prof. Workman says the priceless skeleton
was found near the head Of Bitter creek, in
southern Wyoming, about ten miles from the
Colorado line. The region was once the bed
OF a fresh water lake. The sediment of the
lake gradually accumulated through unknown
centuries until 1t formed a deposit 1000 to
1000 feet thick. The sage inhabitant whose
remains are now disclosed to the eye of man
was apparently W in the lake. His
body was preserved as in an Egyptian
mummy cave. BY and by the water receded,
new forces began to operate, mountain
streams rippled across the dry lake bottom,
great chasms were cut through the soft earth
and the skeleton was exposed on the surface
of a vast cliff. The bones were broken into
pieces and portions fell to the base Of the
cliff. Prof. Workman came along In the
nick Of time. His practical eye detected the
presence of an unusual specimen, but who
can describe his Joy as he stopped and picked
up the tooth Of a monkey?
GATHERING THE FRAGMENTS.
THE fragments Of bones said the profess
sor. were many of them almost as small az
a pin head and Il required many hours OF
time and great patience to gather the pieces
together until We could make one perfect
whole. We gathered all the surface dirt over
an area Of twenty-five or thirty feet square
and washed II out as the miner washes oui
the gravel for gold. Then we located tn,
original resting place Of the skeleton In tn,