The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-04
BARBER GETS LOST
WHILE RABBIT HUNTING
Much Excitement is Created at lone
When Dick Turpin is Report
ed Lost in the Hills.

Our neighboring town of lone was
thrown into state of feverish ex-
citement on Sunday evening, when
at about eleven o'clock 1t was report
ed that Dick Turpin, the barber of
the town, was lost somewhere out
in the hills near Ella.
Mr. Turpin had gone out to the
hills early on Sunday with some COM
panions for a rabbit hunt. They
were in the vicinity of the Phil
Doherty ranch and knocking the rab-
bits right and left, when the party
became separated The other mem
bers found their way back to the au-
tomoble about In the afternoon,
but Mr.. Turpin failed to show up in
reasonable length of time. His COM
panions becoming somewhat alarm
ed, took hunt for him but without
success. The fog had come up pretty
thick in the meantime and they real
lied that their efforts were fruitless.
They decided to come to town for re-
Inducements, and when the town
people were apprised of what had
happened, a few automobiles were
placed in service and crowd of
twenty-six fellows proceeded to the
hills to make search.
Getting in the vicinity where the
boys had been hunting the posse
was divided up in companies and they
spread out over large area. The
shooting of guns, firing Of sky rock
cts, building of fires and excessive
yelling failed to rouse the lost and
for all their efforts, almost sufficient
to raise the dead, Mr.. Turpin failed
to show up.
During the interim Turpin had
wandered around many miles, miss
ing all the sheep camps. and the gov
ernment camp as WELL and at about
8 o'clock he stumbled onto the home
place of Phil Doherty, completely
exhausted. He thought to call up
the people In town and let them
know that he had at last reached
safety, but Mr.. Doherty informed
him that he could not get telephone
connections, and that they would
consider him O. X, so he might just
as we'll go to bed and rest easy. This
he did al about eleven o'clock, and
here he was found about three the
next morning by Johnny Bryson.
The hunters had lot of exper-
ience in the meantime, and not few
of them lost their bearings and wan
dered for several hours before get
ting back to the machines. They all
were made to fully realize that it was
indeed an easy matter to get lost out
in the sand hills and especially so
when the fog covered the country
heavily as it did at this time.
The result of the chase was a lot
of tired and sore fellows, who were
glad, nevertheless, to find Mr.. Tur-
pin safe and sound. They had i'm
agined that all kinds of things had
happened to him, not the least of
these being that he might have ac-
cidentally shot himself and their an
xiety for his safety was expressed in
the thorough search they made.
AS stated above, Dick had missed
all the sheep camps and the govern
ment camp in his wanderings and it
is hard for the boys to reconcile the
fact that he finally wound up where
there are couple of fine looking
young ladies. And it is also stated
by some of them that he was head
ed in the direction of Heppner June
ton, where there is said to be anoth-
er fine looking young lady acquaint-
ance. Dick says there is nothing to
this, however, and that he was just
the worst lost fellow ever turned
loose in the hills, and has no desire
to repeat his experience.
The original bunch of rabbit hunt
ers were Shorty Shaver, who fur
nished the auto, Elmer Ackert, bar
ber supply man from Portland, Tiney
Sheppard, Dick Turpin and Chester
Titus. They began rabbit shooting
about two in the afternoon, and not
long after this the fog came up very
thick. The boys think they must
have been at least six miles from the
Phil Doherty place when they be-
came separated and after some time
spent in hunting for Turpin, two of
the company came back as far as j.
Troedson place at Ella where they
secured a good lunch and returning
with this they renewed their wasted
energies and then proceeded to hunt
up their lost partner. 1t is only nee
essary to say further that Mr.. Turpin
has been very busy since squaring
himself with his friends for his fail
ure to get word to them of his safe
arrival at the Doherty home, and
they have promised to forgive him
this time, but if it should ever hap
pen again--D GU.
w. L. Barlow was in Heppner
"Wednesday He ratilrned to his