Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — EXPLORERS FIND SOME INDIAN MOUNDS. [ARTICLE]

EXPLORERS FIND SOME INDIAN MOUNDS.

A party of explorers from South Bend have been spending the past week on the Kankakee. Near Shelby, Lake county, several Indian mounds were found, three particularly fine. One of these is 15 feet high and occupies half an acre of ground. It is covered with wild fruit trees and wild onions, indicative of early occupation and additional evidences of aboriginal life were found on opening it. Its interior was a mass of Indian relics. In another mound an alter was uncovered at a depth of five feet, and all about were traces of the early trappers. —Hammond Tribune.