The Team Came Down Without Its Driver
A body found on Wenatchee Mountain was believed to be eighteen months old; two men had been seen with a team, but only one reached Ellensburg.
The body of a murdered man was found on Wenatchee Mountain last week with a bullet hole in the head. The corpse was that of a man about 40 years old, with black hair. It is supposed that the crime was committed eighteen months ago. Two men with a team were seen on Wenatchee Mountain, but only one drove the team to Ellensburg. There he abandoned the horses and left the country.
“Two men with a team were seen on Wenatchee Mountain, but only one drove the team to Ellensburg.”
Unsolved disappearances and suspicious deaths in the Cascades still generate headlines, but this 1894 item shows how little evidence a remote mountain could preserve. The abandoned team was the only trail—and it led out of the country.
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