The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-10
Up to a Late Hour Last Night No
News Had Been Re-
ceived.
The Case Of George jackson, Which
Encourages McPhee's Friends
to Hope.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward offered
for the Discovery OF the Body-The
Brother Joins tho Party.

Up to q late time last night no news nau
been received from Elliston of the result OF
the search yesterday for missing John Mo-
Phee. Mr.. McPhee's associates expected
w. G. Hickey to return yesterday, and nj
he did not, they regard it as a possible sign
that some trace has been found, The
saddest feature of tho casa is the grief OF
Mrs. McPhee. Since she has known of his
disappearance she has eaten very little, and
finds it impossible to sleep. The uncertainty
concerning his fate il moro trying, If pos
sible, than the knowledge of his death
would be. There il a possibility that
Mr.. McPhee is living, though it 10 only a
possibility. The great fear is that he died
on Thursday from exposure. The storm
which started on Wednesday, the day he
was lost, continued that night, the next
day and the next night, and until noon Of
Friday. The fall of snow altogether was
over three feet, and it was quite cold.
That he could have pulled through, were
ence OF George jackson, a well-known
~wool-grower, living near Ubet. About the
1st of September Jackson and his wife left
Billings in q wagon, to drive to Lewiston.
The first night they stopped at a ranch on
the Muaselshell. Next day they drove till
two O'Clock in the afternoon before stop
ping to getting to get dinner. They had
taken a new road which Mr.. Jackson sud
was the shortest way home. Reaching a
lake they unhitched the team preparatory
to getting to dinner. Mr.. jackson started
toward the lake to get some water, while
his wife gathered some wood to build a fire.
When ready to light it she discovered
that her husband had the matches,
and started in the direction she
supposed he had gone, but was unable to
find him. She hunted around and called
him by name, but could get no reply nor
whole afternoon in the search Next day
she again spent in a vain effort to find her
husband. With a scant supply of food and
no fire she spent Friday, Saturday and Sun
day alone. On the last day a passing
freiphter told her the way to Rufus Thomp-
sons ranch, about ten miles away, and
hitching up her team she managed to reach
there Monday morning. almost exhausted
from exposure and anxiety over her hus-
bands disappearance. MI. Thompson and
his men at once started out on the search
for the missing man, accompanied by Mrs:
seen him.
The search was continued night and day
for four days. when a party of men looking
for stray horses ran across Jackson, IN the
DEVILS basin. He had been without food
or shelter for nine days and nights and was
so weak that he could not walk and was
apparently unconscious of his surround
When found Mr.. jackson was not more
than eighty rods from the place where he
and his wife had camped the day he lost his
way, and it is thought had become mystl-.
fed on trying to return to the camp and
had been moving around continuously in a
circle within a short distance of that spot
up to the time his strength gave out. He
has now fully recovered. III difference
between Jackson's experience and that OF
McPhee is that the weather was mild when
the former was lost and just the reverse in
the case of the latter.
Extraordinary efforts are being taken to
discover some trace of the missing man.
A reward has been offered and copies of the
following notice nave been sent to be
posted and distributed about the country
in the vicinity of Elliston:
5000 REWARD
For the discovery of the body of John McPhee,
lost in the mountains, in Deer Lodge county.
west Of Rimini and south of Elliston. Mr.. Nc
weighed about 1870 pounds. He had blue eyes,
brown hair. a reddish-brown full beard, trimmed
medium close. and a scar on the right temple.
80, about three miles east of the Ontario mine.
He had on glasses and wore a dark suit OF
clothes, dark spring overcoat and dark derby
hat. He carried a gold hunting case watch with
bis name engraved on inside case. Address any
information to The Grand Republic Mining Co.,
Helena, Mont.
THE GRAND REPUBLIC MINING Co.,
CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA.
Charles McPhee, brother Of the missing
man. who lives at Placer, went out yester-
dav to join in the search. Some news is ex-
pected to-day from either himself or Mr..
Hickey.