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Show OLD PROSPECTOR IS FROZEN TO r DEATH ' . , DEAD BODY IS FOUND BY NEIGHBORING NEIGH-BORING RANCHMAN. He Had Become So Weakened by Starvation Star-vation That He Could Not With- x stand Bitter Cold. K " Buena Vista, Colo., Jan. 23 W. H. McClure, aged 65. a pioneer prospector prospec-tor and miner of the Mount Princeton Prince-ton district, six miles west of here, was found frozen to death in his cabin near the top of Mount Princeton today. A ranchman, living in the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, who had missed McClure for several days, went to Investigate nvl found his dead body. Every -scrap or food in the cabin had been eaten and indications are that McClure had lm come so weakened by starvation that he was unable to endure the extreme cold of the past week. The snow in the vicinity of Mount Princeton is ten feet dee), and the ranchman who found McCluro had great difficulty in reaching his cabin. Practically every trail leading thereto had been obliterated. |