The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-01
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GOAT HUNTERLOST
IN MAKAHA VALLEY
Harry Newcomb Missing Since
Sunday Morning and Grave y
,.,, Fear Is Felt +
BELIEVE HIGH CLIFFS -. =.
. MAY HAVE TRAPPED HIM
Other Theory Is That Real Estate
3 Man Shot Himself BY " -
., ..1 Accident

AIRY Newcomb, real estate sales
,ent for the Henry Waterhouse Trust
ompany, is missing in the mountains Of
dakaha Valley. He has not been seen
since early Sunday morning. He did
not respond yesterday to shouts and
shots that filed the valley. Search will
be continued today by many men. A
party of seven, headed by Alexander
Hume Ford and +. L. steere, New.
comb 3 superior at the Waterhoune
Trust, left by automobile last night.
A severe accident or death is fearel.
Mr.. Steere said that he did not see
how Newcomb could have become lost I;
that is, merely have lost his way. The
valley would be in plain view always.
Unless he crossed the mountains in
one Of two directions it is believed that
he fell from elf or shot himself, by
accident. He does not know the noun.
tains well.
lie was hunting goats. lie AMI
Thurston Taylor, son Oh Mrs. Ethel NJ.
Taylor, left here Saturday afternoon
by train. They spent the night at the
ranch house of George Myers, at tho
valley, and left at daybreak on their
hunt.
Suggests Separate Hunt
Neweomb suggested that they hunt
separately. Taylor demurred, holding
to the rule that men should 90 into the
mountains by twOs, but he gave in, and
they separated. Taylor took the north
side of the valley; Newcomb the south.
TaylOr's side was the best shooting,
md Newcomb may have gone far il
search of game.
About elghtthirty, Taylor heard a
shot near the head of the valley. About
noon he thought he saw figure on one
Of the peaks on the north side of the
valley, but Steere said he could not
understand how NewcOmb could have
gone 50, far over difficult ways in such,
a short time.
Taylor finished his hunting and re-
turned to the valley in the afternoon.
He waited for Newcomb and shoute
and shot, but there was no reply. He
returned to the ranch house. Yester.
day mornin =, he and Myers, with 9th
eys, went out, but they returned at
night without having found a trace Of
Newcomb. One trace WAS found Sun
dnS by persons coming down the valley
--NewcOmb' 8 canteen. Steere attached
little Importance 20 this, but Mr.. For
held that 1t would indicate that New
comb, if still living, might be in bal
way for water.
Deputy Sheriff Helps
Deputy Sheriff Richard Gilliland was
notified, and he telephoned Sheriff Rose
here. He aided in the search yesterday,
and Taylor remained at his home last
night. Gilliland told Mr.. Steere late
last night that they had found moth
ing.
Lieut Harrison II. G. Richards of the
Fourth Cavalry, Schofeld Barracks, vol
untecred to help, and he is expected to
head a party of men today,
The valley is thirty four miles from
Honolulu. Spurs of hills run close to
the sea, enclosing the valley. Mount
KaRla, 1880 feet high, is at it's rear.
There are many treacherous cliffs, some
of great height. Passage directly to
the east over Mount Kaala would be
very difficult; in fact, Mr.. Ford said
last night that only six men had scaled
it. of whom he was one. That was last
September. 1t is a difficult and a long
climb.
Taking into consideration the ap-
proximate place where Taylor heard
Newcomb shoot at eight thirty, there
were only two likely routes for hin. %
follow from the valley, if he left it.
One would be over the ridge beyond
Mount Kaala to Mokulena; the other
on the west side of the same ridge to
Makua. However, IL Is so much easier
for man to remain in the valley than
to leave it, that it is not believed he
took either of these routes; especially
when he knew Taylor would be await
ing him. |
Here for Four Years
Newcomb is thirty-One years old. He
has been here four years. During the
last few months he has made name
for himself in the real estate business.
lie pnt the recent Royal Grove addition
on the market. lie lived at the Y. NJ. !
C.. A.
The party that left by automobile
last nirht was composed Of Mr.. Steere,
Mr.. Ford, II. f. Lambert, Gilbert
Rrown, Joseph Stickney, Frederick !
Cramp and Fred ZiegIer. Four, Steere, |
Ford, Stickney and Ziegler, know Ma
iaha valley. Five of the party are
directors of the Trail and Mountain |
club, and, as Mr.. Ford said, "all are
good hikcrs."
Mr.. Steere expected last night to be |
able to have definite word tonight,
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