Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-25

Valentine Frank Probably VIC
tim to the Recent Cold.

NUieGttme Frank PrODnD1y N1c-
! tim to the Recent Cold.
HAMILTON, Jan. %, 1888.
Ed. SENTINEL: Valentine Frank, who
came here last July from Eureka to open
boot and shoe store, is lost, and has
| probably frozen to death. He left here a
week ago to-day for Mount Ophir, to see
Mr.. Spiker on some business matter.
Mount Ophir is about eight miles from
Hamilton, on the south end and western
slope of White Pine Mountain. This is
the distance by trail, which route
Valentine took on foot. The trail, which
all the old timers of this locality will
remember, crosses White Pine Mountain
at u point west of Shermantown. Mr..
Frank started from here about 10 O'Clock
on the morning of the 10th. About noon
of the same day it set in showing, and the
cold became intense. The thermometer
here registered 80 and 81 degrees below
zero. On Treasure Hill it must have been
too cold for any human being ex-
posed to the air to live, as its
summit is 10000 feet above the
level of the sea. No one here had any idea
that Mr.. Frank had met with any accident,
or had got lost until last Sunday, the 21st,
when one of Mr.. Spiker's men came in
from his Silver Queen mine. Mrs. Frank
at once sought this man out, and asked
him anxiously if her husband had arrived
safe at Spiker's. She was driven almost
insane by the response that her husband
had not been seen by him Mt all. Her an
guish was intensified shortly afteryard by
tho arrival of Mr.. Wilmarth from the Car
lin mine, half-mile distant from the
Queen mine, who also stated that nobody
thoreabouts had seen or heard anything of
her absent husband. Several other per-
sons arrived during the day, who likewise
had heard nothing of the lost man. The
alarm was given, and on Sunday several
parties started out in all directions to find
somo traces of the missing husband, whose
wife and little ones were disconsolate over
his prolonged and ominous absence. They
returned late the same day after fruit
less search. Some parties started out
again yesterday (Monday>, but could find
nothing to indicate the path that Mr..
Frank had taken. Up to last night there
was no news of him at all of
any definite nature. The only tidings
of him worth mentioning are what we get
from Nappias Jim (the Indian who discov-
cred White Pine District. He was started
out alone Sunday, and got back to camp
last night. He said he had got on to Mr..
Franks trail on the summit of White Pine
Mountain, and had followed it northerly
in the direction of Spiker's mine and
Monnt Ophir. Jim says he saw marks on
the snow such as would be made by man
staggering and exhausted, at point which
is known to be rugged and precipitous-
the rocks there being almost perpendicu-
lar. From the description Of Nappias Jim
it seems that Mr.. Frank took the spur
north of the one which would have led |
him to Spiker's. Jim is satisfied he was
on the right track to find the lost man,
but owing to the lateness of
the hour at which he ar
rived at the point described he could
prosecute the search no further, and re-
turned to Hamilton. He started out again
this morning early in search, but he has
not yet returned. Other parties started
out, going to Mt. Ophir in teams, by two
different routes, one "a ard the other
Is miles, in a circuitous direction. Mr.. |
Franks family consists of wife and a
little son and daughter. There is great
sympathy felt for them in Hamilton. 1t
is a very sad case, made more distressing |
by the daily expectation that Mrs. Frank
will again become mother.
JOE GRANDDAUGHTER.