Arizona republican., 1905-10-31
DllLON'S DISAPPEARANCE
 MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR YET
The Old Man Can Make Satisfactory Explanation of
 His Long Wandering in the Mountains.

has been unable to give a satisfactory account of his absence from the camp from which he disappeared, and he has told a variety of stories of the
 things which happened to him while he was gone.
 The party, including A. $. Arthur,
 w. F. KelsO, J. B. Daugherty, and Dil- lon, returned to the city yesterday at noon They were accompanied by JO-
 seph Cope, who met them at Desert
 Wells, havIns left for Superior on re-
 ceipt of the word that the old man was
 lost.
 The story of the returning members
 Of the party told yesterday of the dis
 appearance of Dillon is similar to that
 printed in The Republican on Sunday
 morning, though it is more complete
 as to detail They said that they arriv-
 ed at the camping place on Thursday
 night. They pitched a tent within 300
 yards of the claims on which they
 were going to post notices. Next morn
 ing after breakfast they started for the
 claims. when Dillon suggested that the
 notices had better be filled in ink in
 stead of III pencil. He said he had a fountain pen at the tent and went back after it. His companions sat down to
 wait for him. They were, as they af- terward found out by actual measure ment, just 100 yards from the tent. After waiting ten minutes MT. Arthur started back to the tent to hurry the old man up. Before reaching the tent
 he began calling to him, but got no re- ply. He was not at the tent and Mir. Arthur went back up the trail. It was then decided that all of them should go back to the tent and make q search though TO alarm was felt. There seem ed no way in which Dillon could have got off the trail. On one side was the bank of Queen Creek and on the other a steep mountain.
 Reaching the tent, they inquired of i Mrs. BeHamy, who, with her husband, lived in a tent near by, if she had seen the old man. She said that she saw him about the tent not more than fif- l teen minutes before sne saw MT. Ar thur. She thought he was washing ! dishes. Her husband said that he had | seen him not more than ten minutes before the return of MT. Arthur to the ! tent It was certain that he had not
 gone down the trail, and it was equal | ly certain that he had not gone up it. ! It was at this point that the mystery ! set in. MT. Bellamy explained to them | that there was a blind trail left the ' main trall about thirty yards above 1 the tent. None of the party had noticed ] that before. There were tracks show ing that the old man had gone that way but that was the only way he | could have gone out of the canyon 1 without flying. It was known that he was without wings.
 1 Accordingly, a search was made along the blind trail and other parties hunted along the bank of the creek ] beating every foot of the brus-I. Men l from the Superior mine turned out until twenty men were securing the mountains and gulches. The women ol | the camp also joined in the search. Ii i had begun at o'clock in the morning
 and was continued until it was toe dark to see. The searchers returned | to camp, and after a nasty supper ! they resumed the hunt with the aid Ot i lanterns. At o'clock the quest was ! given up for the night. It was assum | ed that the old man was dead, proba- | bly having fallen from a cliff off the blind trail.
 The next morning at almost the ! same hour at which he mad disappear ed he walked into the tent where his | companions were eating breakfast l They arose to greet him, extending ] their hands. He did not offer his, but
 wanted to know what all the fuss was at all though he could not tell where he had been. From his description of ! things he had seen, MT. Bellamy said | been on the blind traIl He had eaten