Lake County CO Archives Obituaries.....Harlan, Walter Scott November 30, 1898
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Rocky Mountain Sun - May 13, 1899
Rocky Mountain Sun - (Aspen, Pitkin County), Saturday, May 13, 1899

FOUND IN SHAFT

From Sunday's Daily Tribune.

E. R. Willey yesterday received a telegram from E. B. Harlan at Leadville 
stating that the body of Walter Harlan, his brother, and Mr. Willey's brother-
in-law, had been found and that the funeral would be held today.  Walter Harlan 
disappeared on the 30th of last November, during the first snow storm which 
occurred in the Leadville section.  On that day he left his brother's cabin on 
the Little Ellen hill near the Kohinoor shaft to cross South Evans gulch to the 
Ibex mine.  Although diligent search was made no trace of him was found until 
Friday when his decomposed remains were found in a 35--foot shaft on the Ocean 
claim only a short distance from his brother's cabin.  The skull was crushed 
and the features were so decomposed as to be unrecognizable.  Identification 
was made by the clothing and a watch and chain which Harlan wore.  Mrs. Harlan, 
the dead man's mother, left Aspen for Leadville soon after her son's 
disappearance and has been waiting there for the snow to melt so that the body 
might be found.  Leadville Lodge No. 40, A.O.U.W., of which deceased was a 
member, will have charge of the funeral.

Additional Comments:
This story was handed down via word of mouth for years, here is the transcript 
from the Rocky Mountain Sun (Aspen, Pitkin County), Saturday, May 13, 1899.

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