BODY OF RIFF FOUND: LOST IN DEATH VALLEY IN AUGUST, PARTNER GOES TO BURY
REMAINS.

John Stuckey came in last night and reported that his party has found
the body of Jim Riff about five miles in a westerly direction from
Hole-In-The-Rock.  Paul Wright, Riff's partner, will leave tomorrow for
the place where the body now is, and will take a coffin in which to bury
the remains.  Riff was going through Death Valley with Pete Johnson,
about the first of August, when their water gave out.  Riff gave up and
Johnson managed to get to camp, but when he returned to find his partner,
the latter had wandered away, probably in delerium and was lost.

Rhyolite Herald, Rhyolite, Inyo County, California
October 27, 1905

Transcribed by David A. Wright