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Show WEALTHY WIDOW IS LOST IN BLIZZARD Fort Collins. Colo , Jan 2 Mrs Alice Al-ice McMillan. 55 years old. a wealthy Oro county, ('aliforula, widow is lost in a terrific bllz.ard at Chambers lake, near the crest of the continental divide, di-vide, 7.r miles west of Fort Collin-, and there is no hope of finding her alive Forest rangers and the few men within reach irom Chambers lake have 1 joined in the search, which has been m pi ogress since Tuesday noon, hut I no trace of bor body has been i' covered, and the snow, which Is two feet deep on the level, has drifted so I badlv In a 50 mile gale that her I body may not be recovered for man . months Mrs. McMillan came here last June to look after a mine Investment In I which she was interested with Isaac Bllven and Peter Anderson, a retired banker of this city She went to the mine at Chambers lake with BUven and her health was so improved dur- : Ing the summer that she decided to remain all winter. Sunday Bliven went to the postof-fice postof-fice at Home, a distance of 25 miles, and did not get back until Tuesday morning, and then only after a long struggle in which he nearly perished perish-ed from cold and exhaustion The blizzard started Sunday nipht and continues unabated When Bliven Bliv-en reached the mine Mrs. Ml Mlllan was nowhere to be found Perhaps she left the cabin for some reason i and became lost, perishing miserably i In the storm Mrs. Mi Millati has been married I twice, but both of her husbands and all of her hildren are dead She was the owner of extensive orchard property prop-erty in California. |