| Show E I 1 G ILI Y A R OL i r y bw OY LOST F 0 K v 4 73 HOUKS 11 ah 1 T C A imil 0 N F UND fa il 4 1 avzi r iw Z 40 9 T q ir CTT 4 1 1 0 4 aff za 0 t 70 fitt vt V t over aver if eight hundred undred rl basin ba a s i n people bopae r take part in buoy boy 0 hunt kenneth smith hitchcock proves to be real frontiersman while lost in uintah canyon seal chins inz party finds boy bov in splendid shape after roaming the fumed uintah for over 73 hours the glad news of 0 the finding ot of the lost boy which wu wis broadcast over the uintah daila basin sunday afternoon was a relief to vv vry ry ot of alii lie bas a and cupec lay daiy to the heart gi bevel mr ali and mrs allen alien who reside liere here in roosevelt thursday evening july 21 at about 11 deputy sheriff arthur jacobs of roosevelt and game warden dennis mitchell itchell Hl of hayden received a phone call from hallie finston at neola that the young hitchcock boy bad been lost and asked them for help mitch ceiell ell and jacobs with the help of 0 ron ren fenn city marshal of roosevelt several carloads of men were rushed to the canyon and from that time on for three days and three nights the road between neola and the uintah canyon was a busy highway big liway carrying food supplies and relief men from all parts of the basin was lost Thurs thursday dav at I 1 o cioc k I 1 the hitchcock family left roosevelt 1 thursday morning for a few days camping trip in the uintah mountains and arrived at what is called the big park then finally decided to go up the river as far as possible after traveling about three quarters of a mile beyond the I 1 park they stopped and the hitchcock hoy boy in company with another lad wandered down to the river when the west toy boy told lc kenneth enneth to return to the wagon meanwhile tile the father of the boy had decided to turn around and go back a short sh ot distance and make camp and when the boy got back to where he had bad last left the wagon it was out of sight tile the boy then started stalled out in search of lilt his parents search started for boy bov at once the parents of the boy claim they missed him within ten minutes and andi started searching for him and that within a half hour they had it at least twenty five camp ers rg who were near by on the hunt but were unable to find any clue as ag to the direction lie be had taken that evening several big fires files were kept kelt going as a means of sinal signal si nal thinking that the little fediow fellow continued on page eight 1 KENNETH SMITH HITCHCOCK PROVES TO BE frontiersman continued from page one would see one of them and follow the light find root foot prints game warden mitchell in plating his story says that saturday evening some neola boys reported in ili camp that they were sure they had discovered the foot prints of the lost boy near a small stream about a mile up the river a party of men were detailed to examine the tracks which they did and reported back to camp that they could not determine just what had made them mr air mitchell Ml says from that time on he was left in doubt and in order to clear this up he decided early sunday morning to strike out and pick up this trail and go on over the mountains lie he dated that it at several points he picked up plainer tracks which lead him over the top ot of the hill and on to lo a point where he first saw the boy mr matchell Ml says that for foi one in his life he experienced a real thrill when he heard the shout shou of fie searching party and heard hear the answer of the lost boy callin to lo biern papa here I 1 am tl mitchell Ml left camp sunday morning about 8 hundreds start on final search arter after the leaders or captains of the je arching crews had consulted with abner richens of vernal wh who has done one considerable work of this kind and who told them that the boy was ivas evidently over the mountain they immediately formed a line from where the boy was first lost or last seen and started over the 1111 1 this line was formed about tell leu sunday and about 20 2 0 in tie tl e afternoon they first heard hea rd the houts from the lad the boy lid did jot i ot seem much excited at first but legan 1 agan to show uneasiness after the large crowd gathered around him when asked if he knew where he was lie he ansbe answered red no he told lold them that he had been lost three days and nights and that he had dept under bushes and lived on berries some one asked him if lie he thought he would ever be found tie he answered no ile he also remarked ked that he had seen an animal that looked like a cat with a long tall tail some seem to think it was possibly a mountain lion but the general opinion Is that it was a small bear or porcupine |
