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Show BIIGHAM CITY MAN MISSING Jeweler Disappears on Desert Returning From Coast RRIOHAM. Nov. 11. Searchers who have combed the desert near Tonopah, Nev.. for two weeks have as yet found no trace of O. C. Jacob-81 Jacob-81 n, son of Mr. and Mrs. J p. Jacob-H'n Jacob-H'n of Brigham. The fact that Mr. Jacobsen was al Jeweler and may have had valuable gems In his possession leads some to believe that he may hav met with fOUl play. As far as Is known a man known as Nelson luet saw- Mr. Jacob-sen Jacob-sen Neon gives this version of the affair af-fair On October 26 Mr, Jacobeen, en rOUtfl from Bakersfleld, Cat., to his home in Brigham became demented while on the road about 50 miles this side of Tonopah Ho ordered Nelson, who' had been riding with him to leave the car. Then he drove on. In about half an hour he again appeared, driving swiftly toward Tonopah. At a point about a mile from where he passed Nelson. Mr. Jucobsen turned his machlno In-1 to tho desert. After he had gone about three miles he had engine trou- :: blc ,md abandoned the machine Not far from tho spot at which the ma- 1 ' bine was abandoned. Mr. Jacobsen's 1 hat and Coal were found. But of Jacobsen. dead or alive, there has beou 1 no trace. And the finding of his hat and coal I .oids to the mystery of Me disappear ance. For the temperature in that' section on the day Mr. Jacobsen dls- U appeared was around zero. j on 1 1 |