Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-01
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PHOENIX MINING MAN
 MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING
,. DILLON WANDERED AWAY
 FROM A PARTY OF FRIENDS.
1t Is Feared That He Has Perished Near Superior, in Maricopa County. Searching Party Is in the Field.

Phoenix, Oct. 31.-L. Dillon, a min
 ing man of this city, was mysteriously
 lost in the vicinity of the Superior
 mine Friday morning. He had not been found early yesterday morning,
 though search had been prosecuted all
 the day before. His extraordinary dis appearance occurred within fifteen
 minutes after he had been in compa-
 ny of three friends. and the hunt was
 begun almost immediately. Dillon is
 more than 70 years of age, and it is
 feared that an all-night exposure at
 this time of the year in the mountains
 would be fatal to him.
 ] Information of this incident was re- i ceived here yesterday morning from 1 A. s. Arthur. one of the party, who telephoned from Florence.
 On Thursday morning, Dillon, in the
 company of MT. Arthur, J. B. Daughter ! ty and W. Kelso. left for the Superior , country to do assessment work on min ! ing property in which they are inter- 1 ested near there, and to post the usual legal notices. They arrived near the 1 scene of operations on Thursday night.
 and made camp in a canyon, 300 yards | from the place where they were going i to work the next day.
 Early in the morning they left for their property and had gone but a short distance when Dillon remember ed that he had left his fountain pen in the tent and went back for 1t. His companions waited about fifteen min utes. and when he did not return. they went back to the tent. Dillon was not. there, nor could any trace of him be found. There was no work done. The hunt, which it was supposed would be quickly over, stretched along through the day into the night. but nowhere was there an indication of the presence of the old man. His dropping out of sight was So strange that it was un- canny. The search was kept up fev- erishly all day, and was abandoned only when it grew too dark to see.
 A telephone message was received by the Republican last night from the hotel at Florence. The stage driver who arrived there in the morning from Superior said that when he left noth- ing had been discovered. and Worth Bellamy, wto arrived at Florence later. said thst when he left the mining  camp the mystery was still unrelieyed.
 The disappearance is the more re- markable by reason of the fact that Dillon is an experienced prospector. and has been in nearly every part of the Territory. is familiar with thel mountains and canyons, and, presuma- ply. was one of the last men living to be lost
 The theory that he had been sudden ly stricken is regarded as unreasona- bie. for every foot in the vicinity of the camp has been carefully gone over. Another strange feature of the case Is that it would have been diff cult for anyone. however inexperienc- ed, to lose himself in the canyon, since his wandering would be confined with in comparatively small area
 Dillon, who Is unmarried and who has relatives in this part of the coun- try. has made Phoenix his headQuar- ters for several years.
 Joseph Cope, who Is also interested in the mining claims on which the work was to be done, left for Superior yesterday morning. on receipt of word of the old mans disappearance.