Arizona republican., 1912-06-18
Footsore and Famishing and All But Dying on the
 Desert West of
 Wickenburg.
WATER SUPPLY
 LONG EXHAUSTED
Though He Had Lost His Sense of Direction He
 Saved Life by Ra-
 tional Conduct.

Dr. D. E. Wylie. brother of Dr. Win Wylie of this city, whose probable desert was recited in yesterdays Re publican. was found yesterday after noon about 5:30 o'clock, eight miles northWe3t of Wickenburg, by Sheriff Jeff Adams, other members of the same search party being in the near vicinity at the time. He had all but succumbed to thirst and starvation and was mixed Tn hls direction and rapidly approach ing the inevitable insanity that comes upon men in such predicament; nev-
 ertheless reason was not dethron- ed and doubtless his life was protected until help arrived,
 through his knowledge of what to do under such circumstances. When
 a canteen was placed at his disposal he
 told the men they need have no fear;
 he knew just what to do, and there upon he slipped the water a teaspoonful
 at time, and this too when he was so
 far over the brink of self control that he had lost his hat and spectacles. He was hustled to Wickenburg in an auto mobile as quickly as possible where he
 was placed under the care of a physi- elan and given nOurishment There is no doubt but that he will make good recovery, though last night he was so i'll it was thought better to leave him in Wickenburg until today, rather than to make the journey to Phoenix on the train.
 This Information was brought to Phoenix last night by John R. Norton who had charge of a search party that left here at 11:35 Sunday night in an automobile, MT. Norton returning from Wickenburg on last nights 10:45 train, leaving the others in the party to come down in the machine. Mir Norton did not see D. B. Wylie until he reached Wickenburg and between that time and the departure of the train he had little opportunity to learn details of what happened to the man turing his wan dering, for he was not in a condition to be worried a great deal by talking. It was not learned by MT. Norton. wheth- CT the horse threw him or how. Int came to be separated from his mount; how ever he saw no indication of any in- juries other than the fatigue of starva
 tiOn and thirst. It was learned how ever as carly as yesterday noon when the Phoenix party reached Hot Springs Junction, that Wylie did not leave WickenDurg until Friday night about 10 o'clocI, instead of Friday morning, and that instead of starting for Gila Bend. he had started northwest in the direction of Aguila on the A. & c. railroad, for the purpose of securing a horse he desired to take to Gila Bend. The earlier search of the lower country he was supposed to have headed for was therefore lost time. However from Friday night to Monday night is a good long pull on the desert without food, and with the small water supply he started with. How long the water last ed MT. Norton did not learn and as for food all that Wylie had was some chol- las or prickly pears her had eaten after building a fire and roasting off the thOrnS.
 The finding of the lost man. says MT. Norton, W as just a chance, a fool trick of Jeff Adams, as MT. Norton puts it. Everybody in the party had despaired of finding him except Jeff and he was about to give up the search when he decided to shoot his revolver a few times anyway, in the hope of attracting attention. He did so and responsive to the shots came a feeble cry for help from the man they had searched for so diligently which chanced to be no great distance away from the officer.
 The obove recites about all that could be learned last night concerning Wylie bu. Norton's story of the search is an interesting recital in itself Be- ing warm friend of Dr. Win Wylie and very familiar with the country in which tho task lay, Norton was placed in charge of the expedition and given carte branche. The news had reached Phoenix late Sunday night after D. B. Wylie's horse returned to Wickenburg and by 11:35 P NJ. the search party was in motion. It was not supposed that the man sought was in the Wick enburg country but had gone down the Hassayampa river toward Buckeye. Nevertheless Reggie Harrer was sent to Wickenburg to see what could be done from that end Norton first se- cured Wesley Hill in whom he had confidence as a motor driver, and he says now he is a world beater; that he made no mistake Tn ms Selectlon. Next he got Sheriff Adams as the best trailer in the country and De1ph Evans who lived on the fringe of the desert north of Buckeye for a long time and whom he believes knows everything there is to know about that desert that he. Norton, does not know himself. They burned the road up to the lower end of Buckeye, at the Montgomery
 (Continued on Page 0.