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uri.li-r id.- north ami south <ln.li dug with in.v -i.-|.-..n mul found a jumble of 

 what I Itelieve an- the skeletal part* ..f :i vnth. 



The next o|icrations were made \\itli Mr. Itaiikcy. We tiM.k fr.in n .'l-foot 

 level <>ii tin- northeast corner of the Intersect! ...... f Ixith ditches. or at the north 



n.l of the north and south ilit.-h. a badly mashed skull In some si-ore <>r more 

 of pieces. I Itelieve this is no. \ in the <i>llcetloii. The skull IH wry thin, anil 

 when taken out it was linn I to tell wlileh way It ln.v. There were also two 

 femur Indies revising vertically, which led to the Mlef tltat tlie Itody liad been 

 buried squatting. 



I hail determined when at work with my -i-|.-on and again rerifleil In my 

 own mind when working with Mr. Case that an intrusive Inirlal had taken 



place. 



I llrst showed the crania of nog. :t. 4. and ft to |M>ople In the ofli<-e of the U'or/rf- 

 Hiniltl. then to Dr. E. C. Henry. demonstrator of anatomy at Crelgliton Medical 

 College In Omaha, and Doctor Henry wrote a description of them, which we 

 published. I took the three skulls to Lincoln and showed them to Doctor Ward 

 and Professor Harbour. . . . When the featured article In the H'or/rf- 

 Ili-riilil of October HI reached my brothers and ulsters in New York, they noti- 

 fied Prof. Henry Kalrchild Oshorn. win) came at once to Omaha, examined the 

 material and gave me a statement for publication, tjkulls n..-. 1 and 2 had 

 l>cen added sini-e Doctor Ward and Professor Itarliour had seen the collection. 

 and I > r>fessor OslM>rn immediately noted a variation and called on me for an 

 explanation, which was given him as I give it to you. 



A week after my story was tijnired In the Wnrhl- Herald of Octolier -.1. .Tseplfs 

 father .-ailed me by telephone and told me that his son had a skull similar to 

 the ones figured. I visited his house and saw the similarity to my own crania. 

 His mother told me to take It, that her sou was at the university, and that she 

 knew he would IK> fjlad to have it no with the others. 



The lad came to see me a month afterwards. He said he had been looking for 

 Indian turnip* in the ncighl>orhood of Ixuig's hill and had come onto the old 

 excavation made by the three men twelve years ago. He said he had. with the 

 aid of his knife and sticks, penetrated into the old loose earth and run onto 

 skull no. '' when he had gotten down to a level of his shoulders. He Is nearly 

 <! feet tall. It took him a half day to get it out with a large |M>cket knife, and 

 he also found a |>ortion of another. He thought it was an Indian skull and 

 took it home. With the skull was a piece of a jaw (lower), and this fitted 

 exactly with the one found by Mr. Itmikey. 



I have said little almut this skull. Joseph thinks he can get a fortune 

 for It ... 



With or near the Ixwes discovered by Mr. Gilder were several 

 stone, implement-. amoii them two Hint blades of ordinary form. 

 There was no trace of pottery. The better-preserved Ixmes were 

 collected and kept alxnit Mr. Gilder's house until the question of 

 possible <reolopical antiquity of the deeper burials arose, when they 

 were transferred to the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln. 



On Novt'inlx?r 10 Prof. E. II. I Jarbour, geologist and paleontologist 

 of the 1'niversity of Nebraska, by arrangement with Mr. Gilder, took 

 rh:ir<re of the further excavations. As the work progressed he became 

 ronvinced that the bones of the lower levels that is, those more than 

 t feet, approximately, from the surface, were contemporaneous with 

 the original (lacustrine) loe depo-it.s: ami thenceforth the excava- 



