A Hunting Party Frozen To Death

Mr. Oriin Z. Whitford, forinorly of thisjcity, who had lately taken up a soldeicr's claim ut Oaklaud, Jovett County, Kansas, startod, on tho (ith of November, with four othci-s, to hnnt buffalo, intenaing to bo gone about ton days. The party foiind tho buffalo out farther than tney expectod. On tlio Gth a heavy rain oommenced falling, lasting about twentyfour honr?, then tuming to snow, with vory strong wind, eloared un on the 18Jh pieromgly cold. On the 22d tho wife of Whitford and othér frionds wen: itit'orraed that {iva ni' :i had been found frozen to death. The íather-in-law of Whitford and four others started in seareh. Thoy ■_'one eight duvs, unil broughtin the bodios of four of tho Uwtmea; the tifth was :-íill iilivc Ijut with buth limbs most .'carí'iilly t'rozen ; lio had not hnd a morad to ctit ior five days. It would seom íliat the party took witli tlieni a wagon, whicli they luft in a ravino. They afteraravda feoñd it covorod with ten feet of snow, and started liack toward homc with thtir hox-ses. Two oí' tliom, aiti.-r ti-av.-ling six miles gave out; tho third, ibnr miles further, Mid he, too, icvi:out: ; Whitford pushedon forthreemilee jrnt further, then perished. Whitford who (,lil l'vllow, and worea pinol that order, was iirst found by a party of strangen' pne of whom belongd to tho oi-der,who buried his rcmains aud loft his pocketbook and pin with the nearcst sheriff, líis body, with thü others, was afterward taken to Oaklajid Somo cmfi liavlng sugostcd that the ConII abould Iji! ■■■') amnflt'd ns to mnko ,-i man wbo driukt intoxicatinf cbïnks in(Bgiblo to the PsesMtenoy, a BuíTalo -- IjOI aCCÜaeS liiui of;i:-s::iiiiig Urant.