RUMORED LOSS OF A MINER AT CLARKS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 135, 29 September 1871, Page 5

RUMORED LOSS OF A MINER AT CLARKS.

There is a somewhat unpleasant rumour abroad as to a miner of the name of John Harper being missing since Tuesday last. From what we have been able to learn, it would appear that Harper, who was working at Clark's Diggings on a claim belonging to Grogarty and Greer, was sent, on the morning of Tuesday last, to clear out a portion of a head race at some distance from the claim. Harper not returning in the evening, alarm was naturally created, and search was made the following day and his tracks followed in the snow for nearly five miles, but with no further result whatever. Yesterday, Mr. Greer came into town, and gave notice of Harper's disappearance, when a police constable, accompanied by several other people, immediately started off in search of the missing man. The snow in the neighborhood of Clark's is still lying very deep in places, and though there is nothing like certainty as to any ill having befallen Harper, there is, at all events, sufficient cause for anxiety, if not for alarm. Since the above was in type, we regret to hear that information has been received in town that the body of John Harper has be m seen in the sto r e of Gogarty and Greer, at Mount Burster. We give the report as we receive it, hoping, nevertheless, that it may be untrue. At the time of writing we had not heard of the return of the police, or the other persons who went in search of the missing man.