Show Poison Spring Is Death eath Lure to Aged Prospector SAN BERNARDINO Cal Aug 5 After a fight for life across tho the waterless waterless water water- waterless less Mojave desert an unknown miner staggered to a water pool in Salt Wells canyon twenty twenty five five miles from Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannesburg Jo Jo- drank and for a moment believed his struggle with ith death was over But the desert had merely spared him to let him drink from an unmarked poison polson spring spring- In the last spasms of arsenic poisonIng poisoning poisoning poison poison- ing the prospector was found by miners min mm- ers era 18 who were traveling to Skidoo So that he exhausted was the prospector had dropped down on the edge fdge of the pool The rhe water that was killing him soaked through his clothes As the dyIng dyIng dying dy- dy Ing man was found he sought to tell his rescuers something his name or 01 pe perhaps the location of or a gold strike Ho lie lapsed into unconsciousness from which a physician at Borax station where he was taken could not revive him Under Sheriff F. F G. G McLain re returned returned returned re- re turned from the region today The temperature reached degrees rees says the officer The rhe miner was about 60 years cals eals old |