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Show ' VETERAN MIR LOST IN NEVADA'S DEATH VALLEY It It Feared That Aged Prospector Hat Met With Horrible Death In Desert Which Has Claimed Sc Many Victims. Bullfrog, Nev. Judge L. Bethunc, brother of Hnrry Bethunc of Butte, Mont., a well known mining expert and promoter, Is supposed to bo dead In Death valley. Air. Bcthuno, who was well advnnccd In years, whllo hero a month ngo declared his Intention Inten-tion of going to Ilandsburg, by way of Death valley. James C. Wellcr, father of Earl C. Wellcr of Tellnrlde, Colo., who wns searching for the body of his son, claims to have found a black initio strnylng around a water hole about a half inllo north of Surveyors' Sur-veyors' Wells. A pack outfit which gavo evidence of having fnllen off tho animal, was lying a Bhort distance nwny, nnd n bible nnd somo letters mnrked with Ilcthune's name wero woro found nmong the effects. No trnco of Bcthuno's presence wcro discernible dis-cernible nnd It Is fenred that tho nged mini Is dead. Tho nnlmal Is supposed sup-posed to hnvo headed for water after Its owner lost control of It. |