Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-15 | Page 1 | Supposed Tragedy Turns out Happily

SUPPOSED TRAGEDY MS OUT HAPPILY Mining Man Lost on Reservation Reserva-tion "When Exhausted Happens Hap-pens on Herder's Camp. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. VERNAL. Utah, Aug. 14. Tho first apparent ap-parent tragedy attending tho opening of tho Uintah reservation was reported here shortly bsfore noon today. A messenger who arrived from a point on Ashley creek, about thirty miles northwest from Vernal and just outside of, the reservation, reserva-tion, brought word that Joe Brown, a wealthy mining man of Canon City, Colo.. CO years old. had disappeared from his camp Thursday noon and had not been seen or heard from since, although a man named Hapner, who was prospecting with him, had mado every effort to locato him. Organize Searching Parties. Sheriff Preece Immediately organized a searching party and started for the hills. Members of the Masonic order, with whom the missing man had been associated asso-ciated for many years, also organized and left to search for him. Brown left here Sunday a week ago in company with a man named Hapner from Steamboat Springs. Brown Is said to bo quite wealthy, and when he left Vernal is supposed to have had several hundred dollars on his uerson. v Foul Play Feared. Notice received here from Hapner said that Brown left camp Thursday noon. Friends of the missing man fear he has suffered some serious accident or foul play. Tho country In which ho Is prospecting pros-pecting is known to bo extremely rough and wild, and abounds with bears and Hons. Brown had no gun with him. Came ou Herder's Camp. Late this afternoon word was received here that Joe Brown, who disappeared In the mountains thirty miles from here, had been found. He had been lost for two days, but Saturday night, when exhausted, exhaust-ed, came upon a sheepherdcr's camp. The herder furnished him a horse and conducted con-ducted him to tho camp of Hapner, with whom he had been prospecting.