Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
$AUSALITO'S GRAVES.
Remains OF q Lost Tribe Found in Cal
fornia Hills.

remains OF q Lost Tribe Found in Gals
fornia Hills
There is in Sausalito an old India,
burial mound, and every once in awhile
that grass-grown tumulus gives VI
rome of its forgotten dead, says tn,
San Francisco Call. 1t is not pleasan
even in Sausalito, where peace an
pleasure perches swallow-like on tn,
hillside, to have rude and savage pas
sliding down from its sepulchraI hear
into the busy thoroughfares of the liv
ing present.
The place where the former Sausali
tans laid themselves away to sleep i.
| in the northern part of the town.
| street has been cut through the eastern
| side OF the mound, and many skeletons
have been unearthed. Little except the
| skulls have been found in a state OF
preservation, the rest of these rude resi-
denters having passed back to the dust
of their common grave.
In the perpendicular bank made by
the pick and shovel of the worI<men
was discovered the place where a BODY
had crumbled and disappeared Like
the baker of Pompeii lying in volcanic
ashes. this aborigine had left his mold
when he had resolved Lack to earth
again.
In this bank may be seen the sue
ceeding starta of shells marking the
food periods in the life of the old
rancheria. 1t is the geological commits
sary history of the tribe. The Indians
evidently had lived on the big mound.
and the shells and animal bones of
their long-ago feasts had been dropped
nnderfoot. They buried their dead
there too, underfoot, and as the refuse
Accommodations of generations lifted the
living the departed went lower. The
deposits of the centuries widened the
space between the quick and the dead.
In the old earthly records can be seen
n strata of clam shells, demonstrating
that this peculiar bivalve flourished
plent1fully on the bay shore hard by
The projecting of an ordinary ina gina
ton backward through the years will
bring to view the early man of Sausa-
Tito with flint spade grubbing in the
prehistoric mud fer the ingredients of
his chowder pot.
Then came period when another
bill of fare prevailed after the clam
bake day had darkened A mussel
stratum shows itself, and the soft shells
are thick in the era marked by the
abundance of that food. 1t was the
proverbial feast before the famine that
evidently came in the next generation,
for the succeeding deposit shows earth
without any evidences of the tribal
menu. Possibly the vegetable and fruit
rad struck the Indians, and the perish
able nature of their kitchen refuse pre-
cluded the leaving of a dietary record.
Or more likely the root and berry crop
among the hills failed also. as a num-
Ter of skeletons found in this stratum
q haa let ~ 1,a1;
that the famine was then among the
mound people.
The following era was better for the
tribe. for the CLAIMS came back They
were large, firm, fat fellows, with seal
Topped shells, SO hard that they never |
crumbled under the succeeding periods |
that pressed down on them. There are |
only few skeletons in this stratum.
and the scientist reading the uneriing |
pages of the time may conclude that |
the deceased died from overeating
Then came geological era when the |
fragments of animal bones appear
when the mammalia of the Coast Range
came down to the mound and graced |
the festive board In the next period |
e1ther shells, bones no. human re-
mains appear. Probably plenty smiled
lmong the berry bushes On the rugged
ioSS VI dIldl pd1S OF the fculeEt grass
hopper swarmed bounteously in the
Wild oats during those summers of the
linn long ago. a large number of stone
nortars and pest1es found here is evil
ience that the acorn output was mamma
n the wilderness to the tribe
However, the ancient people of Sau-
alto passed down into their mounds
md the grass of to-day grows rank.y
'ver their dead periods. grove of
buckeye and pepperwood trees SEND
heir roots down among the bones. Il
which the street contractor disturbs II
With his pick and shovel. The other day |,
newspaper man, standing in sad con- {
emplation over the tuniulus of a lost
ace, saw a modern Sausalitan tr1ndle
wheelbarrow up 10 the hank and begin +
o shovel the shells and bones into tn,
Fair. |,
1T makes good chicken feed" he ex- c
lained. THE stuff makes the hens Law =
etter.' a
To what base uses we may all return
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