Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

Is Found at the Point of Death.
The family of Godfrey Hughes,
member of the firm of assayers owning
the Customs Assay office, recently went
to spend the summer months visiting
friends who own a large ranch ABOUT
seventeen miles above Albuquerque,
The family consists of the mother, two
sons and a daughter. One Saturday
the children asked permission to go to
II corral some 800 yards away from the
house and on the other side OF knoll
that INSTRUCTED the corral from view
to play. Permission was granted, ana
the youngsters bounded away for their
afternoon frollc. Soon the little sister
wearied and the older brother proposed
that they take her to the house. 10
this the younger brother, Emerson, who
was only years old, demurred az he
wished to play more. SO the older
brother took his sister to the house.
! Upon arrival there the mother asked,
where is brotherw I'VE left him
playing at the corral" said the boy.
The mother then sent him back for
the little truant. Shortly the messen-
ger came back painting from his hur-
ried running, and exclaimed that his
brother was nowhere TO he found; that
he was not at the corrol. The fright
! eued mother hurried over to the corral
and there found the report of her boy
to be true She searched and searched,
but could find no trace of the missing
child. At last she came upon some lit
tie footprints, showing that the child
had taken direction opposite to what
he should have taken, and the harassed
mother became more and more alarmed
as the fact that her child had strnyed
and was in all probability lost became
! apparent. She followed the footprints
| for three miles and only ceased because
| darkness was approaching and she was
powcrleSs and had to call for aid. AS
rapidly as her nervous and exhausted
state would permit she retraced her
steps to the house and alarmed the
household. Immediately n search party
was organized, and despite the oncom-
ing of night started ont in quest of the
helpless child.
Through that disheartening night the
weary search continued. And the next
day the trained services of scventy-tiye
Indians were impressed, and all that
long and trying day the search went
on, and yet no clew to the wanderer.
The grief and agony of the poor atllict-
ed mother were beyond consolation.
The continued discouraging reports
that were from time to time brought
her only added to accentuate her suf-
ferings. The tracks could be followed
for distance of twelve miles and then
seemed to double upon themselves and
finally became lost. Without rest the
their hopeless quest 80 The thought of
the poor little tot being out upon the
dreary plains alone, without shelter or
food, wandering on with the helpless
ness of the lost, crying possibly with
fright tormented by the pangs OF hun
ger and thirst, was simply maddening
TO the poor mother and friends seem
ing so helpless to terminate the trying
situation.
All of Sunday night the search con
tinued and early Monday morning the
father, who had been ignorant of the
tragedy, was wired. He arrived that
day and added his untiring efforts to
those of the large party already out.
TO think of the dreadful pathos OF II
all. The poor child was not found until
Wednesday morning. 1t was then found
by Il Mexican, who carried the exhaust
ed little form to his cabin, where the
child fingered for three hours and then
passed away. The ordeal had been
beyond the little ones endurance The
remains We're taken back to the ranch
ind next day were Inferred in the Gem.
etery of the neighboring Nillage-El
PaSo Times.