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Through the learned encampments of Santiago last week, a cold war of science raged with white-hot fury. Rival scholars at the National Historical Museum, the Museum of Natural History and the anthropological department of the University of Chile maneuvered fiercely for possession of a newfound, well-refrigerated human body that all seemed to think at least 400 years...
...action opened with a burst of scholarly enterprise in February when two grizzled Andean muleteers came down from the mountains near Santiago to report that they had a "mummy" to sell. They had come upon it, they said, while rooting about in a rock-walled enclosure atop 17,712-ft. El Plomo, where one of them had found some silver objects years ago. The mule drivers offered the body to the Museum of Natural History, but demanded 80,000 pesos ($728) for their find. And all that the government gives the museum each year for purchase and preservation of specimens...
...pesos in all-for the body. The mule drivers agreed, and led the students up to the point, 9,800 ft. high, where they had reburied their find. The body, well preserved and wrapped in cloth, looked old indeed, and the students rushed it by pickup truck to Santiago. There the students took it to the university's institute of anatomy, where it was put in a freezer along with other cadavers...
October 26, 1936: Santiago Igleslas, Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner, shot and wounded by Domingo Crespo, Nationalist party member...
Died. Joseph Wright Powell, 76, naval architect and shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...