Show CASTAWAY A skeleton round in the solitude of the ilie desert A from froni t tho special HERALD A few d days ays ago while tr traveling avelin I over ver the tr trackless ackless ackim ex expanse of the american desert about 60 feet from the surveyed lino line of the salt lake t western NV estern railroad about 15 miles from fish springs S rill i as between the north end of dunaway daway IN mountain fountain and the north nort cud of the fish spring canyon I came unexpectedly across a strail strange ge object on close inspection I found it to be the remains of ayoung man the sudden discovery had bad a very startling effect upon myself my elf and my companions who soon gathered gathe reI around the lonely spot where lay thelast odthe of the mortal coil ofa of a human being who roust must have perished in dreadful 14 agonies bics tortured by hunger and driven to despair by y thirst ilie rhe assets osseous frame of the man mail was to snowy whiteness whit ness as were the clothes found on and und about the skeleton in the coat we found besides numerous papers and I letters etters a tooth brush lookingglass looking glass lead pencil razor and quite a number of pocket trinkets on unfolding the apers which were rendered quite brittle by exposure and age and the writing on which partly in lead pencil partly in ink was a almost most illegible iller gible wo came across piteous appeals of the wretched castaN castaway my in tuo alio inhospitable solitude tender summons for succor in in his helpless destitution some of these cries from the depths of misery appeared to be directed to th the c address d rem of a lady presumably his wife her name was given as ms jane badger fairplay P grant county wis some of the writing conveys the impression that the one who penned egued it was then laboring under the the ban of that fearful mental derangement which is brought on by the torments of unquenched thirst and general privation combined with the tile horrors of being thrown far away from all civilization one of the papers is is a receipted bill and bears the only date late furnishing a pos possible clue to the discovery odthe of the identity of the victim of isolation i so it is the year 1860 which indicates that the remains must have lain there nearly nearl v a score I of I years unknown unwept unsung D P SALT nov nev nov 12 |