The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-12
LOST IN WOODS OR MOUNTAINS
The Only Possible Explanation of
Bixby's Strange Disappearance.

B1xDy's strange Disappearance.
The mystery as to the whereabouts of
]. w. Bixby, cashier Of the North End
bank, remains unsolved, but the search
for him, which has been diligently prose-
cuted by his friends, and by the PosT-IN-
TELLTGEscER independently of them, has
thrown considerable light On the direction
which he may have taken on leaving the
bank on Friday morning, December 2.
On reaching the bank that morning
Bixby walked up and down the floor in an
distracted manner, and the clerk, Harry
Leland, ir., asked HIM if he had an ap-
pointment to keep. He left at 9:10 o'clock
and was seen by Fl. ii. Ames to board
a Front street cable car. He got off at
Marion street and went down towards
the water front. having been seen
passing down the street by Edward George
who works for S. T. Stewart, on West, two
doors from Marion street. A. J. Wells of
Green Lake, met him a few minutes later
at either the Great Northern or Lake
Shore depot and wished him good morn
ing. From these facts it is supposed that
he took the train on one of these roads,
and, as the Lake Shore train must have
already left at OILS, it is inferred that he
took that leaving over the Great Northern
at $50. This theory is supported by the
fact that he has a ranch at Fir, on the
Great Northern, but II. w. Durant, his
father-in-law, says he went there on Sum
day, December 4, and Bixby had not been
there. G. NJ. Anderson, vino is interested
with Bixby in the Liliwaup property, is
convinced that the missing man has either
been lost in the Kitsap peninsula on his
way over to Hoods canal or is snow bound
at his mining camp in the Olympic
mountains. He has been searching for
traces Of him, and gave the results as fol
lows:
The cause for the first alarm as to Bixby's dis
appearance was a mistake made by Leland in
saying that he had gone to his ranch at Fir
from VIII foh he could return next day, instead
OF to the mines. Thus, when he failed to return
i'll day or TWO, inquiries were set on foot and
his real destination was discovered After
opening his mail on that morning he suddenly
said he was going away and it appears as
though he had fourd a letter from ]. ". Miller
a mining expert, asking him to meet Miller and
so to the mines with him on the Delta, which
left at o'clock that morning. Having got the
letter too late to keep the appointment, Bxby
seems to have started to Hood canal by another
route Miller went on the Delta, got Off at Lilli-
waup and hired man to take him up the shore
habit OF starting into the mountains.
Bixby might have taken either the steamer
Ellis or the san Juan 20 Port Washington, w here
he would get off at Silverdale or Anderson 3
landing aud walk over the trail to Hood canal
He did not go on the Ellis, but probably took
the San Juan. though have not yet seen any of
the officers to make sure. He might go either
TO pewasto or seabeck and take boat over from
there, but is more likely to have gone by De-
wa,to. as it is directly opposite Lilliwaup, and
there are plenty of boats there. while Seabeck is
some distance down the canal, and he would
have to sail much further with the wind almost
surely against him. By the trail to Dewatto it
is twenty-six miles, aud he could not get there
till after dark If he is not i'll tho mou ntains
already, he has most probably been lost or is
seriously hurt somewhere on the peninsula lie
might take the trail to Seabeck in the expecta-
ton OF heading of the Delta but he would
hardly do that, because that would be taking
some chances. II he failed to get the boat to
Port Washington he may have taken the Renton
TO Port Madison aud hired boat TO take him on
from there. He has not been seen at Union City.
Boodsport or 1illiwaup. but that does not
prove that he has gone TO the mines, for, know
ing the landing place, he would be apt to head
straight for it without landing at Lilliwaup.
+. +. Bulsom, the manager of Bixby's ranch
at Fir, Will so over to search for him in the
morning the peninsula, which he knows
will make straight for the place where he would
60 up 10 the mines. He can find out II he has
gone in, for there is family living al the end OF
the trail If he finds that only one or two have
gone in he will get together a party and go 70
their relief, for they will certainly be snow.
bound
Another party of prospectors went TO
Lllliwaup on the way 10 the mines week
ago yesterday, so that Bixby and Miller
will have company if they are showed up.
J. ". Bixby was about feet or s
inches tall, thick set and would weigh
between leo and i65 pounds. His features
were pleasant aud smiling, His checks
were red and set out his dark eyes prom
inently. 1t would he an easy matter to
identify him by the remarkable breadth
between the eyes. HIS hair was dark, but
not black, and his mustache very heavy.
While on the street he was In the habit OF
chewing gum almost incessantly. The
clothes he wore were dark, well-worn but
not all of the same cloth. His oyercoat
was light Drown, and he wore blac 1
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