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Show Sheepherder Object Of County Search A search for a sheepherder, missing since last Thursday, was called of Wednesday morning until Garfield County Sheriff's Department Depart-ment officers get more leads in the case. Sixty-year-old Johnny Begay left his sheep camp on the Antimony-Johns Antimony-Johns Valley loop road at 9 a.m. July 24, suffering from what he told his companions he thought was food poisoning. He started out alone on foot for a Cedar City hospital and has not been seen since. At 7:30 p.m. in the evening of the same day, his two companions from the sheepcamp, Tiger Grimshaw, 14, who was also ill and Jared Farish, 16, both sons of Worth Grimshaw of Cedar City rode their horses into the Johns Valley ranch of Met Johnson who transported the Grimshaw youth to Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch. Physicians there treated him, but were unable to discern the exact nature of his illness, assuming it to be either flu or food poisoning. He was released after a few hours and he and his father went to the Garfield Gar-field County Sheriff's office shortly before midnight to report Begay missing when they learned he had failed to arrive at any nearby hospital. Begay, from Chinle, Ariz., had been in Utah only two weeks, spending most of that time at the sheep camp at the Cow Creek trail head. He had been hired by the senior Grimshaw as a sheepherder. Grimshaw had brought him from ' i Chinle, with Begay spending only a i few hours in Cedar City and entering the sheepcamp area through Antimony An-timony to the north. Garfield County posse members began a search for Begay at 7 a.m. j July 26 with nine vehicles, utilizing two of those the next day also, three posse members from the Bryce ', Valley unit also searched on hor- j seback for the missing man. A j helicopter search was also em- ployed without success. j Hard rains had obliterated any tracks and a trained search dog, "Panda" and his handler, Ronnie Judkin of Cedar City were brought in Monday afternoon and again on Tuesday. Dispatcher and posse spokesman ! Arnold Keown of the Garfield ! County Sheriff's office said that he called the Chinle, Ariz, police j department to speak to Begay's wife ! Amelia and his daughter Eileen Marks. Neither had heard from the j missing man. Keown said that at the time of his disappearance, Begay was wearing tan corduroy pants, a white and maroon shirt, blue jacket and blue tennis shoes. He also wore a black baseball-type cap. He is reported to be an American Indian about 5'8" weighing approximately 180 pounds. Keown said that searchers checked with campers in the area of the sheep camp but none reported having seen Begay. I |
