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Show oo OMAHA WOMAN LOST ON-DESERT Salt Lake Tribune: After wandering wander-ing on the desert for over forty-eight hours without food or water, Mrs. J. T. Kennedy of Omaha, Neb., arrived exhausted ex-hausted and in a pitiable condition today to-day at Orr's ranch, an Isolated place on the edge of the Great Salt Lake desert, Tooele county. The first word of a woman being lost on the desert was brought to this" city last night by V. P. Martin, a mcr-J chant and rancher of Moab. Mr. Martin Mar-tin Bald ho was returning with his family from Los Angeles along the Lincoln highway. When about sixty miles this side of Fish Springs and UlgUlt'Ull UJHl-o LUC UIUU1 UL Ul I t ranch he mot a man named Jones afoot In the road. Jones told him that he was a truck driver for the Dugway Mining company and that ho was searching for a woman who had been lost on tho desert since Monday night or Tuesday. Jones safd he was driving his truck when ho mot the husband of tho woman, wom-an, J. T. Kennedy, a business man of Omaha, Neb., who told him that while ho and Mrs. Kennedy were touring to Los Angeles they wero misinformed and got off the highway. They drove along a sheep trail toward tho Cedar mountains all day Monday without discovering dis-covering the mistake. Monday afternoon, while the Kennedy Ken-nedy car was directly north of Camel's Butte, it ran out of water and Kennedy Ken-nedy left his wife in the car to go for a supply. When ho returned to the car later on his wife had disappeared. Jones Immediately filled a three-gallon three-gallon water bag and started across the wasto afoot Ho had tracked tho woman for over twelve miles when ho met the Martin party. Her tracks led among boulders and across wasto places without regard to paths or trails. Jones asked the Martin party to inform in-form tho people at tho B. B. ranch and to wire Sheriff D. M. Anderson at Tooele and ask him to send searching parties. It was many miles to St. John, the nearest telegraph or telephone tele-phone station, but on their arrival thero Mr. 'Martin wired the sheriff at Tooele. Sheriff Anderson Immediately organized organ-ized a searching party of a score of men experienced in desert work. Automobiles were volunteered by Arch Donaldson, Ed Macklnson, John Brazier Bra-zier and tho sheriff. Thoy left Immediately, Imme-diately, but before reaching Orr's ranch they wore met by parties who informed them that Mrs. Kennedy had arrived safely at that place. no |