Show HEAT AND THIRST HAVE KILLED MAN fANY Maintains Its TerI Terrible Ter Ter- Death Valley I Reputation as a a Charnel House j LONE BURR BURROS S WANDER IN I If f tors Are Ic Still Stil Socking II for the hit t t Tot Bet Mine I Goldfield Sept 3 While While It would seem scent from the data at bau hand d that t the I list of fatalities among prospectors s in lii inthe the thc Death Valley region so far ar this thit i. i year car Is Iser very er ery much smaller than It L. L k was last yet ct there is much evidence r f I loading to lo the conclusion that there t P c been mall many deaths from heat anti and p st of oC which e Is no knowledge and that hat I many nany man of or the disappearances reported here liere are arc to be accounted for fOl In lii this way war Fred S S. Washburn who ua has hus Just r returned turned from flom a prospect prospect- prospectIng r 11 E Ing trip III in the northern end of Death t Valley says that at ranch I 1 5 miles northwest of Hh resl re- re sl 7 several se burro trains without f. drivers drivelS have ha wandered In from the thc theS S- S desert and the supposition Is that thai they belonged elo to prospectors Only a few I j days ago three burros came In and a ar r J i little later latel two others evidently c belonging be- be ifo r longing to a different ep outfit t. t The ani- ani i mal mais were vere gaunt and about famished i s Some of them still had their packs s on their backs 8 while others had hall evident evident- 14 t ly Jy grown n SI so lean that they had slipped XiV j. j their bur burdens ens There was no possible k way fly of l identification however The TheL L first bunch after aftel ha having been fe fed and 3 r watered at the ranch when driven en took the road toward Goldfield i t awa away while the second headed north In the 3 direction or of T rule Tule Ie Canon if The burros came me from the locality to whore Judge Bethene Bethone thene Is supposed to have ha perished looking for his lost Jost silver shiver mine and it Jt Is believed that t t. t their th lr owners 0 met a 11 similar fate Cate while hiie searching for the Bethene deposit Briefly the history of the lost host Bethene Beth Beth- cue ene n mine Is that Judge J Bethene Dethene local local- located ed ll l some one er very ery rich sliver silver oro ore somewhere somewhere some some- where In the upper end of Death val val- I ley Icy He came camo out thinking that hoI het ho he t had the tho locality Joc properly marked marl ell so I that he lie would be lie able to identify It Iton on tin n his return He lIe was unable to do 10 this however el as ns far as aN known al although although al- al though he ma made e several se trips In search of the deposit lt He never returned L from the last one and anti Is supposed to have lost his life Last 1st winter the bones bone of a l man were vere found Coun in this f region and the they were thought to be bethe the remains of Judge Judg n but this W was never w clearly established It is beHe believed 1 that a great gnat man many of or tho the disappearances which have been reported here ma may be traced to Death valley A great many letters have been received from relatives all over the country Inquiring about missing husbands fathers and anti brothers last heard from at some point In the Bulla Bullfrog Bull Bull- I a Cro frog district It is j a n reasonable conclusion conI con con- I elusion that man many of or these have embarked embarked em em- barl barked ed on prospecting trips to Death valley and antI perished from Crom heat and antI f thirst |