The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-02
STRANGELY LOST.

dance again.
STRANGELY LOST.
y history of the early days in Colo
rado would be incomplete without mar
rating mauy instances Of the mysterious
disappearance OF individual or asso-
ciated hunters, trappers and prospec-
tors, under circumstances which left
little doubt Of their having been mur
dered by Indians or white outlaws. In
most cases the mystery has been clear
ed away--sometimes after many years
by the finding Of the victims scat
tered remains on the trackles5 prairie,
or in some lonely mountain gulch, but
the story here told has no such sequel.
Ia the spring Of 1873 there came to
| Denver from Dayton, Ohio, young
Gaan named Brown. He brought let
! ters CT introduction to number of
persons h-re and stated that he has
COM 10 Colorado partly for his ne.
anS partly to look into the cattle bus
mess with 4 view Of engaging in the
occupation providing the outlook was
favorable. He was the son of Colonel
! L. +. Brown, at that time comman-
! dant of the soldiers home at Dayton,
and among the letters vas oae to Cen
eral Z. NJ McCook. Colonel B. and
! the general, who was then governor of
Colorado, having been warm friends
during the war.
Young Brown also had letter to an
ot&er old friend of bis father who had
a cattle ranch about seventy five miles
| east of Denver, ca or pear the head OF
Beaver creek, and as | recollect, some
twelve miles from Cedar Point, a station
On the then Kansas Pacific railway.
This man, who still lives in Denver, l
will call Smith. Colonel Brown bad
made arrangements with Saith through
correspondence for his son to stay at
Smiths ranch during the summer, for
the purpose OF studying the details OF
the cattle business, and acquiring that
art, now numbered among the "loSt" in
Colorado, namely, Of getting rich by
turning your investment loose in the
shape OF 4 herd OF COWS, aud allowing
them to "rustle" or Uncle Sans pas
ture for four or five years.
Brown came into Denver frequently
during the summer, and almost always
came to my headquarters for chat. l
was then United States special Indian
agent. l could see that he was i'm
proving in health, and be seemed -
have made up his mind 10 ::
COLORADO and be a cowboD~c
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: ters went on until S S-ptember, when one
fioe mornlng Mr.. Smith walked into
my Office looking tired and troubled,
and after the usual sautations we're
exchanged, he asked if | had seen
Brown within day or two. | replied
that | had not. Mr.. Smith, at my in
vitation, took a seat and proceeded to
tell me that the young man was miss
ing, not having been at the ranch the
day or night before, and that after
''riding the range" all the previous day
without finding any sign of him, he,
Smith, had come to the city thinking
that possibly his young friend had
taken sudden notion to visit Denver.
He said that two days before he and
! Brown had left the rancn in the morn
ing for Cedar Point, to get some tools
and provisions shipped flom Denver.
Smith drove his team and Brown was
mounted on fine gray horse, the
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