The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., December 31, 1920, page 2

MEETS DEATH IN A TERRIFIC SNOW STORM

     A western Klickitat searching party that went into the mountains Christmas morning to locate Oliver Davis, 20 years of age, who resided four miles from White Salmon, on the Husum road, discovered his dead body upon a trial four miles from his home.
     Davis started into the hills Thursday morning for a hunt. During the day a terrific storm broke in the mountains, and the presumption is that the elements overwhelmed him and he died from exhaustion. When Davis failed to return home Friday his friends became anxious about him and so Saturday morning they organized and began the search that disclosed the tragedy.
     Three years ago Chauncey Williams, a brother-in-law of Davis, left his home to go fishing. He disappeared, and it was not until three months afterward that his body was found in the White Salmon river. Evidently he had fallen into the stream and was drowned.

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