Show SURVIVED THE TH DEAT V VALLEY John rohn Joh B Colton Colon One of Eight Remain Remaining R Remaining mi ing Members embers Member Kansas City Star John B Colton Colon returned a few days ays ago 80 from fro California where he ho attended the te reunion of af the remaining members m br of a aI apay I party panty pay of Jayhawkers who were lost in I II j I Death Valley for three months In 1840 I j There J wore were In n the party r that li liI I left leCt Salt Sal Lake in October 49 tut lut of that I number only are ar alive alve today to Some SomeI j I of or these theo weary with the te weight of oC years were unable to attend the he reunion in is San Sa Jose ose on Feb 4 and sent kindly messages instead While Mr Colton Colon was ws In California he visited visie the old San F ranch on the Rio Santa Clara China near the edge of I the desert not far prom rom the town of that name w whee where here the te Jayhawkers w wee were ere II I I rescued nae years yer ago The ranch I was very old at that time ag and today toda today only one ono ver building remains the te adobe milk house houe Near Ncr a clump cump of t cypress tree trees a mound of af half purified petrified o brick briks marks the spot where tood tie the thE ranch house in Ia i which the famished p partY rt ty rested after their loner lonc journey M Mr tAlton ook k kI I an a artist ais with wih him hi h ni on his visit a a abort time ago and brought brugh horn home bome a a number nuber of views of the te ranch and a the e surrounding o country two of which are shown mown today During the three thre months that the tay Jay ay haw hawker hawkers kors were lost los in Death Deh Valley Valey h they were without food fo except the smallest ration raton of rawhide and the scent scant est supply of water For four an SI e wate Fr or five days da s a 8 a a time they had no water at all and wae al a ad their sufferings were we terrible Some of the Che te party pary became beme separated from fron frO the wagon train tran and wandered were away in the desert and a were seen een sen no nore ore When hope hop had ha nearly nely left le them m the wanderers sighted the th coast and range cot rae upon reach ing the te foot hills found foun water and reh later reached reche the he San Sn Fad quio ranch There was wa only one woman In the Mrs J W V V Brier Brer now living in Loch Lodl Ld Pr Cal c Of the th other survivors C B Mecum lives l in Independence Ia la IT 1 B Davidson in Wyo H ii n B Franc Frans Hy Rye Valley VaHey Ore Thomas Thoa Shannon Shanron LOS Gatos Cal Cal John ohn Groscup Saron L Cal Lt La 1 Down Stephens Sen Sn Jose Cal and Mr Cotton Con in Kansas Cu Cit City oe C |