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        SKELETON FOUND NEAR ADA
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       Probably a Foreigner Who Dis-
          appeared 19 Years Ago.
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   On the William Guyton farm
near Ada there was discovered a 
skeleton in a lonly ravine.  Guy-
ton reported to the authroities
last Friday that his son Mark
and a neighbor lad Raymond
Clark had discovered a human
skeleton while roaming thru the
ravine.  Fragments of clothing
were still attached to the bones
and the feet were encased in
shoes almost decayed.
   During the fall of 1903, ac-
cording to Guyton's story a num-
ber of foreigners were brought to
Alger, near here, to work as sec-
tion hands on the Erie railroad.
One evening just as darkness
was falling, he said, four of the
foreign laborers passed the Guy-
ton farm home, walking toward
the west.
   One of them preceded the 
other three, and was mumbling to
himslef in an unintelligible
tongue.  A short distance from
the house, according to Guyton,
the first man turned into a field
on the farm, and the others fol-
lowed.  The first stopped and
was overtaken by his companions
Guton said.
   The four conversed in heated
tone for several minutes and
then walked on, passing into the
woods on his farm in which the
ravine is located, Guyton declar-
ed.  Guyton said a cry of dis-
tress was heard a few minutes 
later and then a shot rang out in
the dusk.
   The same night, Alex Carnes,
of Ada, returning home from
Alger reported that he had met
three foreigners walking in the
direction of the town to the
south.
   The skull was found first by
the same lads two weeks ago on
a Sunday when they strolled thru
the woods.  Curiosity led them
to search further with the re-
sult that they located the rest of
the skeleton.
   In addition to the bones, two
silver dollars, one bearing the
year 1891 and the other dated 
1894 were found.
   An investigation by Ada au-
thorities has failed to disclose
any marks of indentification on
the bits of clothing which were
______ clinging to the bones of the

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