The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-01
SKELETONS OF Two CHILD
RfN FOUND NEAR lOYELO(K

While out for an early morning
walk the telegraph operator at Toy.
small station on the Southern Pa
cific about twelve miles west of Love-
lock, discovered what appears to be
the bones of a girl of IS and q boy of
IS or 9 years of age. Appearances
would indicate that they had not been
dead a great length of time. as the
dress was in fairly good state of
preservation and showed the marks
of blood quite distinctly.
From marks on the skull of the
boy 1t would seem as though murder
had been committed, but SO far no
information has been obtained Of any
one being missing answering this de-
scription.
The following description of the
finding of the relics by the discoverer
is taken from the Lovelock Review
Miner:
Il started out in the morning for a
along for about two miles. and had
decided to return home when l dis
covered a girls dress lying on the
ground few feet ahead of me. This
was rather unusual. as the hills we're
not inhabited, and the place was some
distance from the road. / examined
the dress and found 1t to be covered
with blood-apparently belonging to
to girl Is or 16 years of age. 1t was
still In good condition except where
the coyotes had torn 1t.
II began to get a little excited by
this time and decided to walk on a
little farther and see il there was any
thing else. l walked around the hill
and on the south side was a rock pro-
jecting out making a dangerous prec-
ipice for one walking on top of the
hill. At the top of this rock I dis
covered human bones scattered about
and back among the rocks was the
nest of a mountain rat / took Ions
stick which l carried and pulled out
the nest. This contained some more
pieces of dress and some sort of coai
or wrap made of fur. The bones o1
the arms of two different persons ther
came to light as we'll as rope, which
had been chewed up. Far down ir
| the corner of the nest found ths
lower jawbone Of the girl. The per
manent teeth were all through an(
the wisdom teeth were just coming
| through.
Moving q rock, ! found q shor
string of blue beads. of which tn,
string had been broken, evidently tn,
property of the girl. ! looked arount
here but found nothing more, s.
climbed to the top of the hill ant
found two more long strings of beads
one blue. the other green, eacl
measuring about three yards II
length. l picked these up and pu
them In my pocket. and finished look
ing over the hill. but found nothin
else.
II then went below, and a shor
distance from where l found the othe
bones I discovered a small waist be
longing, I should judge. to a boy 81
or seven years Of age. This was ais
covered with blood and, In one sleev
was a bone with small particles O
flesh still clingipg to 1t. locke
around there closely and, findin
nothing else. proceeded on down tn
hill / had about given up hope c
finding anything else when, upon
hill short distance from where wa
standing I saw a 'grinRtng skull
must confess / felt a trif1e shaky. bl
after a minute or 80 picked up coul
age enough to so and look at it. an
found II to be the skull Of q small be
with only few of his permaner
teeth. Back behind one ear was
hole. and a little higher up on tn
skull a small dent that might ha,
been caused by . blow of som
weapon"