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along plenty of provisions and other supplies, packed on three burros. 

 They made their main camp in a cabin at a point about six miles east of 

 Pine Flats, called Chillao, but after a time moved on six miles farther east- 

 ward and camped in Buckhorn Canyon, one of the tributaries of Rock creek, 

 which runs into the desert north of the Sierra Madre range. Mr. Reed, who 

 is a resident of Sierra Madre, took one or two carrier pigeons with him and 

 one of them arrived home a week ago to-day, bearing the message that all 

 the party were in camp in Buckhorn Canyon, and all well. 



"The next morning (Friday) it began to snow and blow, and the three 

 men immediately made preparations to pack up and start for home. While 

 Reed got breakfast, Winston and Brown went out to hunt up the burros. 

 They kept together for a short distance and then separated, the former going 

 west and the latter southeast. Brown soon found the animals and accord- 

 ing to agreement gave a signal by hallooing. He kept this up until he came 

 back to camp, but there was no response. The two men then fired their 

 guns and blew a tin horn they carried, keeping the signals going until about 

 eleven o'clock, but getting no response. 



"They then concluded that Mr. Winston had kept on in the direction he 

 had started, expecting to find the burros at Chillao cabin, so they packed up 

 and left for that point, arriving about six o'clock in the evening. When 

 they pulled out of Buckhorn Canyon the snow was still falling and had 

 already attained a depth of nearly two feet. Farther west, however, the 

 fall had been lighter and did not ob.scure the trail. 



"No signs of Winston were found at the cabin and the two men spent 

 an anxious night. Saturday and Sunday they spent in searching for their 

 lost companion, but to no avail, and Monday morning they packed up and 

 started for home, arriving at Sierra Madre Tuesday night at ii o'clock, all 

 worn out and distressed. Brown was hardly able to return this morning 

 with the rescuing party, but he did go. 



" Mr. Brown says that on Tuesday night last Mr. Winston became con- 

 fused as to his location while out hunting and was obliged to remain out all 

 night and wait for daylight to get his bearings. It is a very rough country, 

 and in a blinding storm it is easy to lose all ideas of place and distance. Mr. 

 Winston had a narrow escape some years ago not far from the same camp, 

 when he was out two days and two nights without food." 



That was Thursday. Then Friday's paper said : 



"Two of the best mountaineers in town, Jud Blick and Lew Newcome, 

 started up the toll trail immediately upon the return of Mr. Winston's com- 

 panions, Messrs. Brown and Reed, yesterday morning ; and this morning 

 another party composed of Palmer Reed, Charley Winston, Charley Brown, 

 Cal Hartwell, Mart. Weight and Frank Grant, left for the summit in one of 

 Wiley & Greely's teams, proposing to take pack animals at the foot of the 

 trail." 



The next week the paper reported : 



"Two of the men who have been in the mountains since last Wednes- 

 day and Thursday hunting for L. C. Winston returned about noon today 

 after more provisions. They are Charley Winston, a half brother of Lang, 

 and Jud Blick. The returned men bring no tidings of Winston that affords 

 the least reliable clue as to his whereabouts or his condition. Charley 

 Winston went on home soon after arriving, to prepare several pack loads of 



