The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-25


GRAND OF 1H1 D1s
I TERRIBLE 1xpeEienee Ct ; Lost
PrdspooeoF.
A special dispatch to the 8. F.
Chronicle from San Diego, August
18th. says:
Constable Juch Of Julian arrived
ia this city tonight with . strange
specimen Of humanity, dressed in
tatters, with boots in shreds and
unkempt gray hair and long, gray
beard. The man 10 insane and Was
placed in q cell in tho county jail.
Il he RECEIVERS his reason it will be
the first time q victim Of the Colo
RADIO desert has recovered after run
ming mad with thirst and hunger
over the hot eands Of the desert. .
Though only AZ years old and
known to tho people here as dark
haired, the man appears to be at
least 60. Though apparently rscov-
ering his reason. be is alternately
moody and talkative, telling ab-
surdly contradictory stories, reveal
ing that his mind is unhinged from
his frightful experience.
So far a. can 30 learned the man:
name is Pster Nathes. He is an old
prospector. He had been in the Al
hambra country and started south
on foot prospecting the mountains:
He had no burro or other animal
90 far - 10 known.
Somehow, in his search for gold,
or by mistake, be got out on the
desert and lost his way. Nothing
Was known of him until two days
ago. whom he was found on the
Mountain Springs trail, stark mad.
Nobody knows how long be was on
the desert. The awful heat 1t this
time of the year may have turned
his brain in few days, but his Ions
beard and hair indicate that he has
been suffering for weeks.
The most strenuous efforts failed
to secure 4 coherent story from the
victim of the desert. His remarks
however indicated that he had lost
his way and soon afterward ran ou'
of food. He had matches and . tin
can, and managed to get moisture
by stewing cactus stalks over thu
FIRE. No food was at hand excep1
mesquite beans which he chewec
raw.
When found Mathes had tire,
matches and the can, but nothing
else. He was violently insane whel
captured, but eubsided and Is nov
mOrose but not violent.
Constable Juch said that ranch
or, who happened to be on tn
Mountain Springs trail looking TO
cattle was startled by an object up
right but more animal than man
uttering inarticulate cries ant
lodging about across the sands
By the stratagem of offering waite
the rancher coaxed the maniac t
his side and after much trouble
prevailed upon him to get In hi
wagon and 60 to Julian where b.
delivered him to the constable
The rancher managed to get BIZ
name out of Mathes, but little else
He insisted that he did not sufe
much though his blackened ant
swelled tongue, torn clothes an,
bleeding feet told another story.
Mathes was not sane enough to
night to tell all his story, though
be claimed that the longest time b
was without water was fourteen
hours. He said that be did not sui
fer much, as he had prospecte'
eighteen years in Arizona and wa
used to the desert. He could no
say how long he had been on tn
desert.
Mathes will be examined for in
sanity, but the indications are tina
in time he will recover his faculties
Parties who know him here say tina
he was in Jail some months ago 70
vagrancy, that his hair and bear
at that time we're black, and tbs
be was . heavy man, Now he
old, wrinkled and almost skeleton