Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — FOR MASTODON BONES [ARTICLE]

FOR MASTODON BONES

Woman Demands $1,500 of Man Who Found and Kept Them. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov, 4. Last week William Hubbard and a crew digging a ditch on the farm of Mrs. Zada Cooper, near *this city, unearthed the bones of a mastodon. Hubbard appropriated them, as allowed by the state ditch laws. Today he was made defendant in a suit brought by Mrs. Cooper, who asks $1,500, the price at which she values the bones.