Arizona republican., 1917-12-18

That Rhodes and Gilmore have been Waylaid and robbed and their bodies concealed is the belief of Manager Harelson. Each of these men is known to have had large sums of money on their persons and each disappeared after leaving Phoenix for Buckeye, where they expected to pay off the members of their baling crews. From the time that Rhodes left here last Friday and from the time that Gilmore started for Buckeye on December 6, no word has been received from or of either. Both Rhodes and Gilmore are men of families and each has larger interests locally than was involved in the amount Of money each is known to have had about him at the time of his disappearance.
 The Southwest Hay and Grain com pany has large contracts to supply stock feed to the government for use at the various army posts and canton- ments. It is the policy of the com pany to buy entire crops of alfalfa and to send baling outfits to the ranches. In each instance the com pany either furnishes it's own baling outfit and places foreman in charge who hires and pays his own men, or contracts with men owning baling out fits to prepare loose hay for shipment,
 Gilmore was working for the com pany the latter part of November and into December. On December he 'drew S103, only part of the amount due him, and started for Buckeye to pay off his men. That was the last heard of him, either by Manager Harel- son or by Mrs. Gilmore. Neither the manager of the company nor the wife ff should have dropped rom sight When Gilmore disappeared, Manager Harelson entered into a contract with Rhodes, who owns a baling outfit valued at about $2,000, to take up the work begun by Gilmore. The Rhodes outfit was shipped into the Buckeye country and was moved from ranch to ranch as the baling of individual crops was completed.
 Last Wednesday Rhodes came into | town to purchase supplies and to have some dental work performed. He drew $S50, less than was coming to him. visited the dentist. and went to Buck eye on Thursday. He returned the next day and was at his home part oi the afternoon. He told his family he | expected to return to the vicinity o1 Liberty early Saturday morning to be on hand to pay the men working fol him.
 About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon according to J. P. Rhodes, father ol l the young man, a telephone call came ! for the younger Rhodes and a few minutes later he started out in a smal Studebaker truck for Buckeye having announced that he had received al urgent call to return there immedi ately. Since then no word has beer | received from him. He did not arriv, at Buckeye and has not been seen a Liberty. No trace of his. machine ha! 1 been found since then. His disappear ance has been complete.
 His father became alarmed on Sat
 urday evening when he learned tha his son had not arrived at Buckeye and instituted a search, which he con
 tinued yesterday. Doubly alarme, when he failed to learn anything rela
 tive to his sons whereabouts, he ap
 pealed to the sheriff's office yesterda,
 morning. and an investigation was in
 augurated by Sheriff Wilky and hi
 deputies. The preliminary steps to
 ward unraveling the latest myster
 case were gone into but failed t
 throw any light on the strange disap
 pearance of the young man.
 The disappearance Of Rhodes, follow
 ing closely on the equally strang
 dropping from sight of Gilmore, unde
 quite similar circumstances, has give
 the sheriffs office an apparent
 harder problem to solve than that c the strange disappearance of Kennt C. Folston, who disappeared in No , vember and of whom no trace has sine been found.