MS DEPARTURE FIRST REAL MOVE Brigadier-General's Rush East Viewed as United States' Intervention Step. BAND SERENADES OFFICER Commander or Deportment of Co lirmhia. Which Ceased to Exist at Midnight. Goe to Lead Troops That Will Entrain First. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Feb. 14. (Special.) With the depart ure tonight of Brigadier-General Marlon P. Maus for his new post to command the First Brigade of the First Division of the United States Army, stationed at Albany. H. V., the United States Government made pre sumably the first actual move in the sending of troops to quell the Mexi can disturbances should they grow worse. The First Division will be the first to move should the Mexican revolution demand Intervention. The fact that the Secretary of War has. by telegraph, ordered General Maus to rush to his new command is taken here as an in dication that the Government means actually to move toward Mexico any necessary troops to handle the situa tion. The parting of General Maus tonight was historical as well as Impressive, lie left as department commander of tlie Department of the Columbia, an Army divisional organization which after 46 years passes out of e:dstence at midnight as a result of the recent reorganisation effected in the Army. Band Serenades General. But there was a personal impor tance attached to the going of the highly esteemed commander from tlie barracks. The Twenty-nrst Infantry hand assembled in front of General Maus' headquarters at 7 o'clock and flayed "Auld Lang Syne" and "God Speed Our Friend." according to old Army customs. Later every officer of the post gathered in front of the commander's quarters and Joined In the Informal reception Just before his train left at 7:40 o'clock. General Maus. barring accident or delay, will arrive at his new charge Tuesday night. He announced before going that, nothing happening, he would he ready to assume duty Wednesday morning. It Is confidently believed at the post here that General Maus will he among if not the first to head troops for the border If Intervention is actual ly decided upon. Maus to Retire In Two Yearn. General Maus has been In the serv ice of tlie United States Army 44 years And will retire, on account of age, in less than two years. He has been commanding the Department of the Columbia since July t. 1909. The Department of the Columbia was established by the President June 27. 1865. and Brigadier-General G. Wright was the first to command it here. For a few years the department headquar ters were in Portland, but were re moved back before 1878. An officers' register of officers passing or calling at the headquarters was begun In 1870 and this was yet In service today. Major Adrien S. Fleming, Adjutant General under General Maus, has been ordered to remain here to act as bri gade adjutant. This post will be head quarters for the Seventh Brigade of the Third Division, beginning tomor row. The troops under command here will comprise the First Infantry, under t'olonel George S. Young, now post commander of Vancouver Barracks; the Fourteenth Infantry, at Fort George Wright and Fort Lawton, and the Twentieth Infantry, now at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, under Colonel Irons. OFFENSE TO TAFT FEARED I Tr"n' Committee Protests A$r;itiiL Dilapidated Klephant. COLUMBUS, O.. Feb. 14. Declaring tiiat such a feature might be offensive to President Taft. Robert N. Harper, of the inauKural committee at Washing ton, lias written a letter to Clark C. Dovffhty, who Is In charge of the Ohio delegation which will attend the in auguration of President-elect Wilson, protesting against the use in the in augural parade of an elephant "blind n one eye and somewhat dilapidated." The Ohio delegation had planned to have a donkey, representing the Demo cratic party, ;ad the elephant, repre Kenting the Republican party, at the head of the Ohio delegation. The plan was to have a large patch over the elephan't eye and large patches on his side. The committee, however, does not object to the donkey. MARRIED CADET MUST GC Taft Approves Dismissal of West Pointer Who Eloped. WASHINGTON'. Feb. 14, President Taft has approved the action of the West Point authorities, who recom mended the dismissal of Cadet Elmer K. Adler from the Military Academy for getting married. Cadet Adler was a second-class man and eloped last month with one of the students In a fashionable girl's school on the Hudson. The elopement caused much speculation at the time, as it was paid the authorities hitherto had not hnd to deal with a similar case. The benedict was appointed from Montana and entered the academy In March, 1910. BOYCE WOUNDED 17 TIMES Physician MttttM in Trial of J. B. Sneed for Shooting. VERNON. Tex.. Feb. 14. Taking of testimony began today In the trial of J. B. Sneed. charged with the murder of Al G. Boyce. Jr.. who eloped to Winnipeg. Canada, with Mrs. Sneerf more than a year ago. Sneed, dis guised as a laborer, shot Boyce to death In Amarillo last September. A. F. Lumpkin, of Amarillo. the first witness, said he found 17 bullet wounds In Boyce's right side after the shooting. MAN TERRIBLY INJURED KoacI Kmplojc Xonr Condon Lets luajnite Bcinjr Thawed Explode. CONDON. Or.. Feb. 14. (Special. 1 Wlth one eye blown out. the other in jured. his right leg badly broken, his right arm. face and breast badly burned and bruised and his left leg bruised. William Vandeventer. a county road employe, lies in St. Mary's Hos pital here as the result of a dynamite explosion while he was trying to thaw out about 20 sticks of giant powder. The accident took place yesterday on the Burton & Wilson grade, on Rock Creek several miles east of this city, where the county Is building a new road. The injured man was brought to the hospital today. Vandeventer. according to three men who were working on the road grade, had left his drill to kindle a fire for thawing the powder. After he had placed the powder back of the fire his companions heard him shout, but could not understand what he said. They saw him run a short distance, then turn and run back to the fire, where he was in the act of reaching down, presumably to throw out the dynamite, when It exploded. One of his shoes was torn from his foot and thrown 30 feet away. Vandeventer came here a few months ago from the Burns country and was Brigadier - General Marlon I, I Mans. Who Left Vancouver , BarrnekN Yesterday. 4 . . T T T - - - considered an expert powderman. He was about 33 years old. GLEAM OF PEACE SEEN It A 1 1 . T ; O A D S SCABS NEW PRO POSALS TO PIREJIEX, Presidents of Affected Lines .Meet and Put Situation With Man agers Who Act Anew. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. A new possi bility of peace between the 54 Eastern railroads and their 4000 firemen who have threatened to strike for higher wages and revised working conditions appeared tonight with a fresh arbitra tion proposal by the railroaas. The railroads, which have Insisted upon arbitration by a board of seven men similar to that which decided the dispute with the engineers last year. while the firemen demanded arbitration under the Erdman act, now propose ar bitration by a board of six members, two representatives of the roads, two of the firemen and two disinterested mem bers, to be appointed as the Erdman act provides. The roads offer also to retain In the arbitration proceedings all other features of the Erdman act which the firemen may desire. The railroads' proposition was sub mitted Immediately to the Federal offi cials who have been trying to bring the nartles together and at once placed by the mediators before the representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive l ire- men and Englnemen. When a break seemed almost Inevita ble and the firemen made it known that they had a strike order In readiness and Intimated they would wait no longer than midnight for tne roaas to make some concessions. President Brown, of the New York Central, sent out a hurried call to such presidents of tlie other affected roads as could be reached. When the presidents adjourned tonight they said they would not take the matter out of the managers' hands, hut would be satisfied with whatever disposition they should make of the question. OREGON CENTER OF TRADE (Continued From First Page.) "order of this glacial sheet was sln- uous. extenaing mucn iki mci . some places than others. As soon as the climax of the glacial . j ...... t, . anA Ihn ennwf.lll penuii . i . began to melt faster than it accumulat ed, and tne sneei receutu a. gregatlon of population which had cen tered In what is now Missouri and the adjacent country, gradually moved northward as fast as the ground was bared, ultimately rcoccupying a large portion of the continental area which had been populous in the Intcrgracial . b .ha ani,4hern hnrHer of penou. up the Great Lakes, where a gigantic ice dam. 600 miles long, retained the vast body or wilier wunw mvn k " the five Great Lakes, Superior, Huron, Michigan. Erie and Ontario. Cain Not Born In Garden. ... . . j ., nnnn!Hrrl a m.n- l nis uam w a wi , hi ii - ace in its day any more than a slm. liar barrier which umiuiu -L-tal lake in the Connecticut Valley at one time, or the existing Ice front i.i-v ohh. thA north shore of Hudson strait In the Arctic Zone. Yet an in evitable convulsion came eventually, caused by generation of steam In the bowels of the earth, which broke It up as effectually as the Alaskan earth quake of 1303 wrecked the stupendous T , .v, -vt,,!.. hit. ipr and caused havoc and dislocation over 4000 square miles. ., . Cain, son of Adam, representative m the second generation of the human .4 tA as-M-i race, wa uuin w . , l. j . e which was in Eden, after the expul sion. Eden was not the garden Itself. It was a select and exceedingly fer tile location In a continental region Iving "to the eastward", of where Adam . . , , inn 1 1 3ft: ana ntve er Gen. 11:8 ) This region as outlined . - . . - . , Ha in tjenesis cannot at pice... fined, because only small fractions of It were left unchanged after the Noa- . . n, - .... ... .-nr., nf Klll-h .-man ueiugc. n ... . -... - ----- stupendous character as the Noachlan I'eluge must very maiei imij .,: terea nc iat-e ui um It. To destroy "all people" extant, it must have been continental in Its area. Where was that continent? Let the points ana piiiiiau.ca v . vj.j ... ., i nA fiittaln npaks now above liuuua tii . " " water, help us to determine. Continent Sank In Deluge. The continent of Tula, which sank at the time of the Noachlan deluge was located In the Pacific Ocean, west of South America, a portion of the globe which then comprised about one-half Its present continental dimensions. Geo graphically. It was located on the Equator, between the meridian 130 de grees west and 110 degrees east and latitudes 30 degrees south and 30 de grees north and Included pretty much all of what Is known on modern maps as rolynesla. The Hawaiian Islands comprised its most northern limit and the Magayesas, Fiji. the Ladrones, Philippines and New Guinea are rem nants. 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Fifth Floor. portion of South America which lies between Patlponla and Brazil emerged from the ocean, as well as a large portion of the ocean bed lying west ward of Tula and Including portions of the geographical divisions now known as China. India and Arabia. Where a depression occurs In one part of the globe a corresponding bulge must take place elsewhere. Eden, the Biblical garden, was lo cated In Tula, and having sank with it has never been discovered by scrip tural literallsts and archeologtsts, who have been continually searching for It. Prosecutions in quest of the Lost Is lands have been made of late years over a large area of the northern por tion of this sunken continent. North America was known as "ultima thule" in the antediluvian epoch and to It many people fled In consequence of the very seasonable warning given to Xoah. in anticipation of the deluge, the trade winds blowing In that direction facilitating their passage by sea marine vessels as well as airships, which were then in use. The time of the deluge Is computed to have occurred about 8205 years from the creation of Adam (not from the creation of the earth, whose prepara tion for the occupation of man required Incomputable ages to accomplish). The ancients did not reckon their chro nology after the modern fashion. Even before lunar time was in vogue they counted by dynasties. They counted the years of Adam's life of 930 years as the duration of his reign, when at the termination of his dynasty the house of Seth (descended from Seth the Appointed, Genesis, 4::), governed for 913 years. Adding these years (1842), and Noah's together up to the time he built the ark, the sum total will give the date of the beginning of this his tory. For years Tula had been agitated with dissension, conflict and barbarous war. At this time It was deluged with violence and steeped with human blood. The divine In the human nature had vanished. Greed of gain had devoured the substance of the masses until pov erty and desolation transformed the creatures formerly actuated by the di vinely unplanted principle of love to God and man into beings filled with hate and thirsting with revenge on their oppressors. The image of God, their, inheritance by creation, was literated by the presence and preva lence of evil. Even the Imaginations of their hearts were only evil, and that continually. Famine induced pestil ence and the fair land of Tula was filled with violence. Mighty Comet Precursor of Flood. At this time the pole star appeared in the westward In 27 degrees. Jupi ter, like a blazing world, was nearing the western horizon, followed by the ancient Sickle, with Scorpio pursued by Sagittarius with his deadly arm. Right over the land hung a mighty comet, of tremendous magnitude and In tense brilliancy, and In startling prox imity to the earth. Its deadly pres ence had been foretold as the precur sor of the sinking of the world unless the people repented of their crimes. Preacher Arnoek (Noah), the nation's chief executive, reissued his proclama tlon for cessation of hostilities, for the restoration of peace; declared the usurping anarchists disfranchised; con fiscated their hoarded wealth, and ordered Its equitable distribution among those who by their toll had pro duced the wealth which by fraud, in justice and violence of their laws, had accumulated in the possession of the avaricious usurpers. He reiterated his warning of impending doom. The actual discoveries on the Pacific Coast regarding the City of Enoch have consisted of stone, bone and a few metal tools at various levels. There are also traces of some crude ma chinery including sea-going ships and airships, and inscriptions and plcto graphs on what appear to have been temples. Only a few bones have been found, and none of these are In per fect condition, but it is evident that they probably are among the oldest ever discovered. Place Great Trade Center. Some great cataclysm which broke up "the foundations of the great deep,'' according to the Scriptures, rendered useless the aqueducts and irrigating canals. Some disjointed records of this overwhelming catastrophe are In scribed upon temple walls, monoliths, pyramids and porticoes, which attest their extinguished greatness. The discoveries show that the whole place formed a great empire and that many routes extended out from the city. It is probable that the gold was brought up from the South, or Cali fornia, while the onyxes were probably the agates which are found there in great quantities even today. The nicety with which the facts fit the proof of the correctness of the thesis not only Indicates the birthplace of the people from which the early In habitants of North America sprang, but locates their point of departure and the several routes of exodus there from. And It Is able to trace and estab lish the designated routes, burial In scriptions, petroglyphs and stone tab lets writings and traditions the au thenticity of which is self-evident and self-contained.