Arizona republican., 1905-09-06
E. P. GRINDELL'S QUEST
Starts Today After His Brother, the
 Explorer of TibarOn.

The anxiety which was felt at first over the continued absence and silence of Thomas Grindell and party who left Douglas three months ago on an ex- pIOring and prospecting expedition in the island of Tiburon, was changed to dread and now has almost passed to despair. His brother, E. P. Grindell, will leave Douglas today on a hunt for the party. At his request Cover nor Kibbey yesterday sent him a let ter directed to Governor Rafael YZa- bal of Sonora requesting any assist ance which may consistently be af- forded MT. Grindell in his quest The letter is not in any way of an official character.
 MT. Grindell requested it on Mon day by telephone and yesterday there ernor a letter from him in which there are set forth certain facts regarding this expedition which have not hith- erto been published.
 Thomas Grindel had visited this in hospitable island of Tiburon twice be- fore, the first time in the company of Professor William J. McGee, the eth nologist.
 The party now unheard of consists of Thomas Grindell, Olan Rahl of Douglas, Lieutenant Hoffman, a for mer member of the Rough Riders, and David Ingraham of New York. The explorers left Douglas early in June, intending to travel by the way of NOgales Santa Ana, Altar and Ca borca and reach Port Libertad on the coast. a few miles above the island. The last heard of them was on June ,F ITah I,a wrote that they would leave for Lima Wells, two days distant, and there they would procure Papago guides to conduct them to Port Libertad, also a journey of two days.
 The party had arranged to be at Hermosillo on July 20 and to return to Douglas by August 1 certainly not later than August 15, when MT. Grin dell had important business demand ing his attention.
 His brother in the search will go to HermosiIlo and make the necessary arrangements for conducting it and then he will go to Caborca and en- deavor to pick up the trail of the missing men. It is presumed that the party reached Port Libertad safely. though it seems somewhat strange that they did not send back word by
 
 have been forwarded to civilization. They may have been lost in the short voyage down the coast to the island or they might have met death on the island for though the Seri Indians are not cannibals, nor as blood thirsty as they have been painted, it is known that they have murdered visitors. among them R. E. L. Robinson, former newspaper correspondent of this city, and a companion.
 Robinson was a newspaper man of the yellowest type, always wanting to attract attention to himself. Once he planned a voyage on the Gila from Phoenix to Yuma and he had arrang- ed with friend here to report his drowning few days after his depar- ture. He did not, however, start on the trip. In 1895 Robinson and two other men fitted out a boat called the Examiner, at Yuma, and set out for Tiburon. After they had gone it was given out that Robinson had employed a friend at Yuma to send out a story in the course Of two months that they had been killed and eaten by the is flanders.
 Late in the summer of that year Spanish papers from Sonora brought obscure reports of the killing of Rob- inson and one of his companions. Ev- erybody who knew Robinson laughed. The story was later reported in great CT detail but still it was not believed. It had been brought to Guaymas by the third man of the party who said that his companions had been mur- der and that he had narrowly escaped. Robinson and the other man had been induced by the Indians to go with them around the point of a noun tain where they said there was an abundance of game. They also want ed the third man to go but he pre- ferred to stay by the boat. Robin son and his companion were well armed while the Indians were unarm- ed After they had passed out of sight the man in the boat heard a couple of shots and then he saw Rob inson running toward the boat pur- sued by the Indians, who overlook him and struck him down. He lay as if dead and the survivor pushed out from the island and made his way to Guaymas.
 Notwithstanding all this reasonable detail the story was not believed until the fall of the following year when Professor McGee returned from his first trip to the island accompanied by GrindeH. Professor McGee talked with the Indians about the death of Robinson. Their story cOJrobrated that of the survivor The Indians said that they came wi:hin sight of the game which they were going to show the visitors, who seemed to have no fear of them. An Indian asked Rob- inson to let him have a shot Rob- insOn handed him the gun, whereupon he shot RObinson's companion. Rob- inson ran for the boat and several shots fired at him missed. He was finally overtaken and beaten to death.
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