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Show LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS Family of Three, Father Afflicted Wtth Smallpox Fort Collins, Colo., April 5. With the man suffering" from small tox, Calvin Cal-vin Miller, his wife and their scn months-old baby are lost In tho Medicine Bow mountains,' somewhere betweeu tho I,ararulo river ataiion of the United States forestry son-ice and the settlement of Elkhorn, fifty miles west of here. Scathing parties have been able to make little headv?y because of snow which lies from throe to five feet deep In the mountains. moun-tains. Miller with his wife and baby arrived ar-rived at the forest ranger's station from Elkhorn yesterday, hauling a scanty supply of food, and some hed clothing on a sledge Ho was suffering suffer-ing from smallpox which had broke out after his departure from Elkhorn, and was given one of the rangers cab-Ins cab-Ins until medical aid could be secured. Later It wag discovered that the Millers Mill-ers had left the cabin and the trail of their sledge led back into the mountains from which they had come. oo . |