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THE SUNDAY onVGOXTAT. PORTIAJrD. JULY 19, 1914. NATURE IN STARTS ON TRIP TUESDAY Wresting Living From Forest Primeval Aim of Test in ' Unfamiliar Woods. KNOWLES LONG TRAPPER MAN WHO WILL PERFORM NATURE STUNT AND SCENES ATTENDING HIS FORMER EXPLOIT. California Professor Jicoompanles Adventurer and Will Report to World Success or Failure of Cnlqae Junket. Thi ts the first of nerleii of stories that will be published In The Oreronian while Joe Know lea. the primitive man. Is In the vnodi of the Sierra Nevada mountains. He . will remain 30 days or more, and is accom ranted by Professor Waterman, of the Unl - . r. r raiifnrnU. u a scientific Ob' mho wl'l reiort as to whether he accomplishes what he says be will. GRANTS PASS. Or.. July IS. (Spe elal.) Joe Knowles. the primitive man. who last year passed two months in the Maine woods alone and with n Implement of civilization to aid him to a livelihood, and over whom a contro versy arose as to whether he really lived as he said he did, will enter the forests of the Siskiyou range of th Sierra Nevada Mountains on Tuesday. He will enter the wilderness naked and will remain in the woods for 30 days or more and will attempt to prove to the satisfaction of all that he is capable of wresting a living; from na ture from that which she has put into the forests and the streams without firearms, matches or any modern im plement. Last year Knowles made an expert ment in Maine. He is a native of that state, and when he came out after il days it was claimed in some quarters that he did not live as ne eaia ne aia and that he knew the woods of that state too well to make It a lair test. Oregon Woods New to Kitalcs. That there could be no question of his knowledge of the locality this year. he has come to Oregon, in which state he arrived for the first time in his life a little over two weeks ago. Up to a few days ago he did not know in what part of the state he would make the experiment, but after looking over me ground he has decided 'to make the Siskiyou Mountains the region of his operations. That there may be no question as to whether he performs what he says be will, he will be accompanied on his test by Professor T. T. Waterman, the noted anthropologist of the University of California, who will be with him during the time he Is In the woods and report what actually occurs to the world on the completion of the test. Professor Waterman Joined the Knowles party when it left San Fran eisco a week ago Saturday, and he will remain with Knowles in the woods un til the test is a success or u failure. Kaowlra Deserts Sea for Woods. Knowles is 44 years -old and loves the woods with all the ardency of his nature. As a young man he ran away and went to sea. but he soon tired of the water and returned to the woods. Then he became a guide, and for years was one of the most famous In North ern Maine. Rough as a trapper, hard as a sal lor. with all the characteristics of the outdoor man. yet he is as delicate with the pallet and brush as he is rough with the rifle and the club. He is today one of the most noted painters of wild life In America. His canvases adorn the walls of many sporting clubs In this country and many magazines and calendars are made attractive by reproductions from his paintings. KNOWLES TO FIGHT FOR LIFE Man, Who Will Kilter Forests Naked, to Clothe Self With Animal Skins. BT JOB KNOWLES. t don't pretend to be any better than any other man, but I do pretend to be just as good, and what has been done before can be done again. The primeval man conquered the beast with which he had to contend and forced a living from a natural wilderness. I have done It once, but I am going to make the test again. I am not going Into the woods to fight for the sake of fighting. I shall fight, for there will be the fight for existence. I knew Maine. I had uvea there as a boy, and I had been a guide there, and the woods of that country are like an open book to me. Oregon is a different proposition. I have never been in Oregon before. What the woods may contain I do not know. It may be as devoid of anything I am familiar with as the desert of Sahara, but I shall live. I shall clothe myself from the skins of animals or other material which I will find in the forest. I shall catch fish and I shall sleep, and I shall come out of the woods healthy and welL In attempting to live this life that no one else has attempted to live before In our age. my real purpose is to demonstrate the fact that the self-sustaining power of modern man has not deteriorated; to prove that the man of today, although handicapped by civili zation is the physical equal of his an cestors. I believe he has not lost that resourcefulness that in early days brought nature into subjection. I be lieve that I have that same resourceful ness in me and there are others, but they don't know It. When I enter the Sierra Nevada Mountains I shall take absolutely noth ing with me. I shall leave all clothing and everything that I possess with the party that will accompany me to the forest. I shall take no food and what I get will have to be fought for. What I know of woodcraft will aid me, but live I must. When I leave the men who accom pany me to the woods I shall have cut off all connections with civilization. No one but Professor Waterman will see me. I must have no assistance. I wish to see no one and shall avoid every place where human beings may be. I shall live alone. When I come out of the woods I shall be sufficiently clothed to walk the city streets. In fact I shall walk the streets in the clothes I have secured in the woods. I shall be as comfortable as any human being. I shall have at least one equipment and perhaps two. While I was in San Francisco, before coming up here I was examined by Dr. Meads, of the University of California, and he said that in comparison with the tests riven me by Dr. Dudley Sar geant, of Harvard University, last year, that I was In better physical condition than I was 12 months ago. When I return from the test I am again to be examined by Dr Meads to determine the effect the life in the woods has had upon my body. I firmly believe that I shall come out this year In better condition than when I go in. While in the woods I shall write on tecJt c wh;T material X ttX find. Oct 44 93. ik to , ', jv w av 'iftx:.. s -- nun wet Crr'$e;iizncf 1 asTtr-n ; jt ? - a record of what I am doing and what I have done. These I will deposit on trails and in other places where they will be found b- members of the party who will be camping, but no one man shall enter the woods without being accompanied by some disinterested person. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains i know nothing of what I shall find. In the Maine woods there are two animals that are dangerous at times the bear and the moose. That there are bears whose ferocity 'Is twice that of those In the east In the western mountains I do know, but they give me no more anxiety than the one I killed in Maine last year. If I do not 'kill a bear dur ing the time I am in the woods I shall come out a sadly disappointed .man. I want to meet one and match my wits tad rxu saUa bl I wiU tU ou now that Jf I have the good fortune to run up against bruin I shall come out of the woods aressea in ma win. I would as soon tackle a mountain lion as a bear, and they deserve no more mercy that they show to the inoffensive deer. Again I say I am not going through this experiment for the sake of killing. I shall kill nothing that I do not need, but I know that anything that I do, or any of the food that I get will not be had except as the primitive man got it I shall have the same weapons that tie had and when I come from the woods the world shall see the imple ments I have made and have used. I shall have to fight for my food and It will be in some cases a fight of wits. Fish I shall get without hook, game I shall catch without the aid of the steel trap. Meat I must have, and tbwa l. urobablz th will be matched with the brute of the forest , , . I don't want any one to misunder stand my attitude in this experiment. I am not going into the woods to kill myself, and it l una i am " ... j . -r - v. .. 1 1 nntnnwTw1irA It and re- naiure x -- . turn to the outside world and say that I have failed. c wrinrtnm at the hotel I look .ko mountains and the valleys' in the vicinity of which I shall pass the next few weeks of my life, and I am nappj in the thought that the time has come for me to chuck my clothes and go into the woods for my fight with nature. My experiment will be performed In Oregon. It was to the wilds of Oregon that I wanted to come and there I ot.n aoMimniis)! mv Dumose. I have found the very spot where I shall dis appear from civilization. There is this much to say about this i . mlnA FvArvona 'With experiment vi. " ' J intelligence realizes the fact that I muBt have looa wniie l am m m tw0. do not Intend to starve, neither do I Intend to live on what sirengm x imvo when I enter the forest. That would be a simple feat A man might stay in his office alone four weeks without food and live on the strength he had in him, but that is not my purpose. As I have said so many times before, I want to demonstrate that a man can make a living and a good one without the aid of civilized implements.' t . i ... iftro T ahull fitav in the JUM nvvw luiib - " ' --- woods when I finally enter I don t know. There are certain tnings wiun i li-i- .3 i Ki,.a df. HnnA in a compiisii mm i. , month to the satisfaction of Professor Waterman, it is possible I may come out ... i T m a r itHV ft tnen. 11 mey wm longer time, but when I do come out, , u nr in t a I flha.ll come with the full knowledge that the i vnnnra ho.nrphan(. that I have ac- WUI1U """' mw-v - compllshed that which I set out to do. It s a tnree nours iny, . . . , j a t om tnA that there lo ine boiuci, - - is sufficient game, animal, fowl and Bsh, to keep a regiment auvo. x . . , u- A0-atatlnn In wonderful loia uii - ------ and that there are berries; In fact, the territory is a virgin loresi, shirh has never been explored . . . v rhltA man to any ovcui " j ...w ... That's the kind of place I want. The wilder the better. I don't want it made easy for me in any respect, but I do want to live, x love me, iiu - . lift if nipunrv fnr I WOUia Bive inj v: ' , any good cause, I love it, nevertheless, and don t want n wcriin. t . .. n Vi a f T-n I toii vnrld. v nen x roiuiu .v - - as I hope to do alive and well In the course of a lew weens, x am smus fly Into the city. Is it not appropriate for the primitive man. after he has ac complished what he says he can do. to enter again into the world of civiliza tion In a macnine uio mi man's scientific acnieveroenir Silas Christofferson, who started avl . , ir.n.nnw Wah la lnter- ested in this experiment. It was he who made me propuomuu .i....inv in thA amnlcer comlntr up. were u no. l l. r, ... - - I had told him what I hoped to do and . . . M 1 1 at-llol. maw Uniinr he had told me 01 nm li.bu. T .alr.J htm tn Vl TTi V IT11 ftflt w niiney. j- iwnu when I returned to civilization after the experiment, ana ne saiu, "T'li do better than that: i 1 11 fly you back to the city. I can meet you at Port Costa and rrom mere x wui iuu youanywhere TWWMtt. i" "You re on, So the primitive man will return to .i. .1... tn o fivmc macnine. xow. x . kaat. In an RAronl&n& The air has not been my element The seas and the forests have been my home ever . t L h knt I am anxious since x woo " - - - now to get up into the air. almost as I am to get into the forests. It will be i am iu ,imt hrlm full of a wonaerxui adventure and danger and I love that tingle when one leeia u thing that has the element of chance In It if it is worth while. I'm off now. i n i uu """" j or. what I find In them. Professor Waterman will be with me and for tne on. "mo - "V sleep beneatn mo " Z purr of the wind through the branches to lull me to the finest sleep anyone can have, out in the open with the great dark glittering ay - ."v. Toledo SHU Changes Hands. ui-rw rr .Tnlv 18. (Special.) Mr. Huffman, who has had the Toledo Lumber Company s mm mi three years, nas doiix w " T.wiai Montgomery and Mr. Miller, who 8i pperatlm It, Rosenblatt s Great Semi-Annual Clear at 2 ance saie of Hart Schaffner & Marx Spring and Summer Clothes 5 Per Cent Off there's no secret about this sale it's simply getting rid of all this season's Spring and Summer Suits to make room for the new. arrivals of Fall stocks which are now on their way. Rather than carry these suits over, Ave are placing them at your disposal at these great price concessions : $20 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits $14.95 $25 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits $18.75 $30 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits $22.50 $35 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits $26.25 Blue, Black, Full Dress 20 Off ANY STRAW HAT IN THE HOUSE HALF PRICE Great Reductions on Furnishing Goods ' Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Shop for Quality and Service Northwest Corner Third and Morrison KNOWLES OFF SOON Tuesday Day Set for Trip Into . Primeval Forest. PLANS OF FIRST DAY FIXED Abode and Bed Will Be Considera tion Uppermost at Start, When Nature-Man Enters Into 30 Day Forest L.lfe. (Con tlnued From First Page.) my camp, and my companions. We shall have quite a dinner pany, ior x nH.nfml the srood people of Grants Pass and Holland and the places about are organizing parties to go mm ix.c oods and see me on. xne muro . merrier, and I hope the places aDout lere will be deBerted and Dusiness itopped for the day. After stripping and the examination -,.ii rt out of sight as quickly as my legs will carry me. Then I shall gm rtrsi 01 an xo iv - iace to sleep and something for my feet. I am not sure l nave not seen It. but I think there is a cedar on the mountains out of the bark of which I can make a fairly good pair of sandals. I shall make tnem on me iu.- they will stay until either worn out or I secure a deer or other animal with which to make a real moccasin. This bark sandal or moccasin I make on me with my feet "der water and the part up the legs will be of braided bark like a basket They are not dur able, however, and will not be com fortable on my feet. I will seek some skin covering for my feet as soon as possible. First Work Is to Make Bed. My first work will be to collect and arrange for a bed the fir boughs that I will find. I shall collect the moss frsrn a tree. One pan scrape It from the limbs with a crotched stick and each bough gives an armful of this fragrant moss, light as a feather. I shall pick it over the way wool pickers pick wool and then on top of the boughs it will go until It is plied high. Then over this bed I will make a lean-to. Professor Waterman asked me where I wauld get my crotched sticks for the uprights and I could only say that I should piCK mem up i.-- o Then, after these sticks are in the ground, I shall lay one crosswise In r, . i T will stretch tne cruiuncn aim v.. - boughs back over my couch to a Place about a root aoovo my ic. - ir in front, or rather at the foot, of the bed I will build my fire, but rm not going m jvu now. Professor Waterman will do that later In a more scientific manner than I could. The heat from the "re win strike the top of the lean-to, will be reflected back on my bed and what would one want better than thatT Now. I've just loia ' , .. . i . u wnfula tn show that nature really put things there in a fash ion that would enable man to wrest a living from her with his own wits and no weapons or imploments. and benre leaving Tuesday I nt to tell you as r u kofnr nma of the things i hope to accomplish and why I am in Oregon making this experiment across the continent from my home. I am here becaUse I wanted to make this experiment away from the part of the country in which I lived because I knew the woods of Maine and the for est there was like an open book to me. I knew the animals and the birds, their habits and their feeding and drinking . i r tn fhia.RtntA I know no man with the exception of the two who are with me ana mom " met since my arrival. State's Resource TTnkaewn. t j ..i vnnw the habits of a single X MWfc ...... animal in the state outside of a purely superficial knowledge. I don't know the woods or the streams and I don't know the qualifications of the vegeta tion to sustain. My belief is that I do know sufficient about them in a general way to say that I shall live without trouble. That is the reason I am here and tne reason for the experiment is that I hope to be able when I come from these woods to teacn ine who are interested in the outdoor life a little something more than they know at present, to put more confi dence in man himself if he happens to be lost In the forest and has to stay over night. There is na need for a man to suffer under those circumstances and It Is to teach this doctrine to show ell that the most wondiTful life fiosslble la that out under the great tres. If one "knows the ropes," about the snfevt place In the world. I have two more days with these friends of mine here and I shall make good use of them, for I know 1 shall be lonesome and thst Is the worst part of the experiment. Yet I want to be alone. I must be alnne to make this test that which It should he and educa tional for all as well as for myaelf. FAMOUS SP00NSENT EAST Albany Tosts Silver to Great-Great-Grandson of I'urcjinser. ALBANY, Or.. July 1. (Special.) On its wny to the great-nreat-grand-son of the man who purchased It a century ago, a sliver spoon left Al bany by parcel post yesterday. The spoon has Lccn In the possession of Miss Lizzie Brundlge, who died here recently, and has been sent to Pher man J. Brundlge, of Ilooslrk Falls, N. Y. It hns been owned by some member of the Brundlge family continuously for more than 90 years. It was pur chased originally In Troy, N. T so has made at least two trips across the continent. Toledo to nulld M'areliouse. TOLEDO, Or., July 18. (Special.) At the regular meeting the l'ort Commission voted to build a warehouse for the use of boats running Into To ledo. Work will be started as soon as plans and specifications can be pre pared. The main building will be 49 by 0 feet ' CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR TELLS OF KNOWLES' INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF WOODS. BY PROFESSOR T. T. WATERMAN. OP THE UNIVERSITY OF CALL KORNIA. (Knowles' Headquarters, Grants Pass.) Tf has seemed from the start only fair to assume that Mr. Knowles ' .t in his conviction and that he Intended to live absolutely WnSfn t?e nropos tlon he made. In other words, the fair thing was to LPcePt htmP atPh1s own valuation and give him a Perfectly ir chance xt h same time there was always some question In the mind of fhe wmer as to how he expected to accomplish hi. undertaking and UPThe$iUth?woeldeayS'-acquaintance with Mr. Knowles ha. settled both theiS , polnti. in the first place he actually ha, an expert knowl of the woods This does not stop with the mere ability to make a fire in the rain and guide himself by the sun or star.. He .n Intimate knowledge of plants and animals, their ways, their ufes and thTir personal characters that would astonish the average Umber cruiser or sportsman. In other words, he Is not only a com. peTent woodsman, but an expert in everything pertaining to the WCarrying provisions into the woods for this man', consumption w,Tm be not only a breach of the bargain, but a waste of time and money. He certaTnly knows enough to carry out hi. bargain. So mUHisf0chltehfe sndfby11!. knowledge of the woods. Th. second trait in Mr Knowles' make-up which is important in this connection Is a marked manual dexterity. In a systematic test of such matter, he would prXbly be rated very close to Al. A few Informal tests already have made this trait evident. Perhaps the simplest test Is the abil ity to shuffle and sort cards. Like many men with clumsy-looking hand, and great strength, Knowles has a fine series of muscular correlations. He can shuffle through a series of names written on cards and arrange them in alphabetical order and fll.them in pigeon holes In decidedly less time than the average man. 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