The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-01-12
MEN LOST IN SNOW STORM.

CARSON, Jan. 10.-Lost in the
SHOWS of the Sierra and probably froz-
en- to deth or starved ere this, appears
to be the fate Of Chris Jepperson and
a man named Russell who left Gard
nerville on January LIST to relocate
some claims just half a mile beyond
the Winters mine. Jepperson is well
known in Carson and during the sum
mer usually spends most of his time
fishing about Glenbrook while Russell
is a Gardnerville man. Yesterday a
prty of men left Gardnerville provid
ed with snow-shoes for the mountains
to try and learn the fate Of the men,
the rescuers being headed by "Snow-
shoe' Thompson, an Indian.
On the first day of the year Topper
son appeared at Gardnerville and en-
ployed Russell to do some work for
him and then hired William Richford,
the liveryman there, to drive them to
Lone Pine, the nearest point a team
could be driven to the claims. Topper
son told Ricnford that the property was
located about five or six miles from
that point and that he could return the
following day, Wednesday, and return
them to Gardnerville. The two men
then struck off into the mountains over
the deep snow accompanied by a dog
and provided with food enough to last
until the follwing day.
The FLOWING day Richford forgot to
return to Lone Pine for the men but
the next day, Thursday, he sent his
brother with a sleigh but he could find
no trace of the men and after a long
wait returned to Gardnervillc. Moth
ing was thought of the matter for
several days and then only when the
dog which had accompanied the men
arrived in Gardnerville limping and
emaciated.
Still, the friends of the meH did not
organize a rescuing party hoping that
the two men had either made their way
out or reached safety in some manner,
Yesterday, however, a party was
organized in G~ardnerville and left for
Lone Pine in sleighs and from that
point the men expect to snow-shoe
through the mountains in hopes of To-
eating the two prospcctors. The snow
in the mountains at that point is about
three or four feet deep on the level
while in the canyons it is from fifteen
to thirty feet.
The returning of the dog to Gard
~nerville and the strange actions of
the animal have resulted in much spec
ulations over whether the canine was
sent back by the men for aid or wheth-
er they have been overcome and the
dog deserted them. Many are inclined
to believe that the dog was sent by
the men in hopes that he would lead
resouers to the mountains where the
men are imprisoned. The searchers
took the dog along with them in hopes
he would lead the party 70 his master.
During the winter months the en-
tire region where the n n are lost is
deserted by miners arr rrospectors
owing to the heavy SHOWS, the miners
leaving there early in the fall to re.
turn in the following Aoril or May.
So far as known there is no food at
the Winters mine, hal'-m'l" from the
claims sought by Jeppcrso7 and Rus
sell, and if the men reac' 4 tho cabin
AT that point they would likely be in
a starving condition.
A telephone message froo, Gardner
vile at al early hour t'';s morning
stated that the party of roseucrs were
still in the mountains and that signals
lighted by the party co~vH"ea the in
~telligencc that they Ind found no
trace of the men and had cav ed, ex-
pccting to continue the search today