HORRORS OF THE DESERT: AS REPORTED BY SHORTY HARRIS.

Shorty Harris has returned from Death Valley.  Reporting finding
four men dead on the desert.  Skeleton of one man was found about twelve
miles north of Lone Willow.  In the hills about eight miles away a horse
was found running alone, and it is supposed that the animal belonged to
the dead man.  And at Furnace Creek Ranch, Mr. Harris learned of finding
three partially decomposed bodies between Lee Camp in Echo Canyon and the
Lila C. Borax Mines.  It is felt that the men were murdered, they were
found in a partially buried state.

Rhyolite Herald, Rhyolite, Inyo County, California
June 23, 1905

Transcribed by David A. Wright