The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-11-21
SNOW HAND1cAPs THE SEARCH
But Beltrami Register of Deeds Pro-
ceeds to Canada and Offers
Reward.
OREGON PAPER PRINTS DETAILS
Says There Can Be No Doubt But
That Young Man and Compan-
w. ion Were Drowned.

Ion were drowned.
Fighting billiards. nearly the entire
distance and at one time blocked for
IL hours in the Rocky Mountains, J.
o. Harris, register of deeds of Beltra-
mi county, has finally arrived in
Portland, Oregon, to find his aged
mother and sister heartbroken as a
result of the mysterious disappear
ance of his brother, Charles Harris.
The following letter from Mr.. Har-
ris to G. A. Huffman shows that he
and his family have given up all
hope of finding his brother alive but
that he proposes to locate the body if
possible: z-
Has Hard Trip. ......
Friend Huffman: Just word to
let you know that I am still in the
land of the living, although had a
hard trip. I ran into an awful bliz-
zard, we had a snow plow ahead Of us
all the way up through Montana and
we were stuck for twelve hours in
the mountains just after we went
through the Cascade tunnel.
IT did not get to Portland until
Friday night, and found very sor-
rowful household here. My poor old
mother and sister are heart broken,
so it doesn't make things very pleas
ant for me and from all the informa-
ton I can gather it looks as though
Chalie was drowned.
ri do not know just when I will
get home. I am going to Kamloops
and see what I can find out there.
The snow is SO deep up in British Co.
lumbia now that we cannot get in
to search for the bodies but am go
ing to offer reward for their bodies
and that is about all can do
Enclosed in Mr.. Harris letter is a
clipping from the Portland Journal
which runs picture Of Charles Har-
ris and Henry Mccormick. This ar
ticle says in part:
Try to Find Bodies.
'It is possible that another attempt
will be made this month to find the
bodies of Charles Harris and Harry
Mccormack, the Portland timber
cruiser and compass man, who were
lost or drowned in the Caribou dis
trict of British Columbia in Septem-
Der.
"James Harris, a brother of the
missing cruiser, arrived from his
home in Bemidji, Mimi, yesterday
and will confer with his relatives and
with the firm of Brayton & Lawbaugh
for whom the two men were working.
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of heading an
other searching party to locate Har-
ris and McCormack's bodies.
ut is feared the snow is now too
deep in the Caribou country to make
it feasible to take up the search be-
fore spring. Brayton & Lawbaugh
have expressed willingness to send
out another party at any time, but
Parker Stennick, brother-in?law of
Harris, said yesterday he did not be-
lieve it would be possible to find the
bodies this winter.
Both Are Dead. -
"There is no doubt that both the
men are dead and no hope is enter
tanned of finding them alive. They
set out from their camp on the head
waters of the Clearwater to make for
the Big Thompson river in order to
get supplies for their party. They
had with them supplies enough for
four days. No trace was found of
them unless a broken raft, discovered
below the falls and rapids Of the Big
Thompson river by the searching
party that tried to find them in Oc-
tober is token of what their fate