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6 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 18, 1923 BONES OF HUGE PREHISTORIC MONSTERS FOUND IN OREGON DEVELOP CONTROVERSY ;- . . . . Teeth and Other. Parts of Animals Strewn Throughout Willamette Valley Indicate Three Species of Elephants, None of Which Was of Mastodon Type but Gigantic. - Top Mastodon and elephants that have roamed the Oregon country: A American mostodon (BLunmnt Ameri canum) B Imperial mammoth (Elephas Imperator). -C Woolly mammoth (Elephas prlmlgenlua. D Co lombian mammoth (Elephas colnmbl)." From Scott's "History of Land mammals," Lower leftElephant tooth found In gravel bed of Willamette near Champoeg, by R. E. Kirk of St. Paul, Or. (Photo by J. B, Horner.) Lower right Mastodon tooth found near Agate Beach, Lincoln county, by Mrs. E. H. Voder of Bruce, Or, . , BY J. B. HORNER, . Professor of History, Oregon Agricultural College. THERE is some controversy re garding the Identity of a vast quantity of huge hones discov ered in Marlon county, Oregon. In the McDonald store- window at fit. Paul , ia-an elephant tooth that came from a grayel bed : of the "Willamette river. Alongside the tooth are ribs almost the length of a man and a vertebra a foot In width. These ribs, with many other big bones, came from the timber near by,, where they lay exposed on the surface of the ground. In the R. E. Kirk store of the same town there Is on display a pet rified mammoth, or elephant, tooth and a clavicle, both of which the proprietor dug out of a gravel bed of the Willamette near Champoeg laft July. Referring to the bones, the proprietor expressed the opinion that more digging would result In uncovering the remainder of the beast that lived In primeval Oregon. Ii. P. Swann, while deepening Mill creek near his gristmill at Cham poeg in 1900 dug out of a clay bed a femur lour and a half feet long 1 and ten Inches In thickness. This bone was on exhibition at a drug tore in Third street, Portland, Or In 1904. In a grove on the John Murray farm, two miles from Butteville, are ribs ten feet long and a great skull which weighs a quarter ton or more. Also there are eo tnany authenti cated stories of other huge bones discovered in that locality that one reoelveslmpression kf a region which Is now the site of an abandoned zoological garden. And it Is ex ceedingly delightful to ride In a modern automobile a machine with almost human instincts over the ancient pasture grounds of masto dons, elephants, camels and other great animals that were plentiful along the Willamette river and its tributaries but which have disap peared forever. Such bones as have not crumbled are scattered and no one of the present generation has succeeded in assembling them so as to form the skeleton of any animals that he has eeen or read about. While there was difference of opinion In the three little towns as to the identity of the animal, the prevailing idea was that It must have been a whale. "But," a bystander asks, "how could a whale wander so far away from the ocean?" Another whose forehead has been wrinkled with much thinking of fered the theory that it probably swam up the Columbia and Willam ette, and he also volunteered the opinion that whales can exlt In fresh water. 'But how did it clamber over the Willamette falls?" was a stunner not answerable at that moment. One who had examined the bones carefully said: "The animal was as big as a whale, had the bones of a whale, and it must have been a whale; but VnW tn fit mammoth teeth in a whale's skull is a problem that would perplex an automobile assem bling expert, becauso it simply can't A nr A." I . - At this time D. C. Livingstone, professor of geology in the Oregon a ,i,.i.it-!i1 rnllece. having been in vited to determine the identity of the bones, stated that they were not the remains of one animal, but of two or more animals, as implied by the elephant teeth and tne Dones 01 How whale bones happen to be In a Marion county forest was ex plained to the geologist by John Murray, a Butteville pioneer, who u .v,t .hnut BO vears ago John Batcheller of that place hauled the whale skeleton from Tillamook to the state fair grounds where he articulated it for exhibition. After a number of years it was removed .v.- nna. This accounted for the presence of the whale bones . . ,a niv the, mystery of .u- ",hT,t or mammoth bones. Regarding the elephant teeth and other bones, Professor Livingstone - .aid: "111 teeth, evidently belong to one 1 - ii ". of the extinct species of elephants' of the glacial period. They moSt likely were from an individual of the species known as elephas priml genius or more commonly the woolly mammoth, but they may have been the former property of the Colum bian elephant or even of the giant imperial elephant The imperial ele phant was about 13 feet high at the shoulder and the largest of his kind,, either living or extinct. The Columbian elephant was not so large, being about 11 feet at the shoulder, but still sufficiently Im pressive. "These animals had a wide range in North America, but were not con sidered as cold-climate animals. The wooly mammoth was a hairy ele phant about nine feet tall at the shoulder and lived during the lat ter part of the glacial period as a contemporary of man. We know this because the animal was depicted by the later and most Intelligent cave men of Europe on the walls of cav erns in France and Spain. Its por trait is considered one of the ear liest works of art produced by the human race. "Large numbers of elephants must have roamed the Willamette valley during the glacial period,, as their remains, which are confined chiefly to teeth, are found In a great many localities. At the time when they. BORED RADIO BROADCASTER IS FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE Walking Encyclopedia Gives Up When Train Auditor Tells Him There's Nothing Under Sun That He Hasn't Heard About Already. BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. VE been going about telling people what new string beans were worth' on April 29 and how I raw silk was spun from cocoons gathered from mulberry trees and made into kimonos by Japanese boys of 12 and under. It got me consldierable reputation for learning, for a while, this fund of information. Whenever I got an opportunity I would lead a conversation up to gardens, and from gardens to pro duce, and then I would announce to the assembled company that new Bermuda onions were worth 18 cents a pound, but the native variety, which were not quite so good could b had for 11 cents In bush-el lots. Everybody would gasu a bit wnen thev received these tidings ana re gard me with added respect. One .gets so little respect in. this world of scoffers that Is was very pleasant: Sometimes I would vary my sys tem, particularity wJien there were children in. the company, and tell a bedtime story, or deliver a short address on the progress of-foreiign missions in Afghanistan. Tfiat got me credit with the children's par ents, although the children them selves remained singularly uninter ested!. Still I persisted Last week, when the parson called on us, -he spoke about church at tendance, and how convenient it was, now that daylight saving was In vogue, to play golf afternoons, so that -one might not miss the morning service. He saidi that this was becoming quite a. fad with his parishioners and that all of them testified that their game was very much Improved by the spiritual ex altation they received from his ser mons. Statistics Are T7seless. He was looking fixedly at me all the while, so I toldi him that there are. 6590 churches of the Methodist Episcopal denomination In the state of New York, that 11.868 students are attending the divinity schools of the Presbyterian faith and that the contributions received by the Congregational Sunday school chil dren) for work among the heathen of Madagascar amounted to nearly $14,562.11 In. the year 1921. It wasn't any use, however. He merely corrected some of my fig ures and went right back to the subject of Sunday afternoon golf and the importance of all members lived It is highly probable that gla ciers extended from the high rangei of the Cascades to within, a few miles of the valley, and probably Mary's peak, the highest point in the coast range, was covered by small but perpetual snow field from which small glaciers extended. It does not necessarily follow that the country was completely enveloped in ice and snow at this time, but was decidedly cooler than it is at the present time, and these animals were protected against this colder climate by a thick woolly or hairy covering. As elephants extended their range farther and farther south into the tropics this woolly covering has been lost, and we now have the heavy-skinned and prac tically hairless elephants which are confined entirely to the tropical re gions. , "The teeth discovered . by R. E. Kirk belonged to one of "the three species of elephants described above and not to the mastodon, which was of a different and more primitive type. Careful study may possibly reveal which of the three was the owner of the teeth. As the glacial Deriod was interrupted by spells of warmer or so-called inter-glacial periods, these animals may have lived at this time, and the teeth may belong to one -of the larger forma and not to the wooly mammoth." . of a community's going to church at least once a day. I had a little better luck with a life insurance solicitor, who is a friendly though a persistent soul andi who is a relative, of the family. whom I dislike to offend. He began by talking ' about the suddenness of death, giving innu merable statistics of children and widows who had! been left destitute after they had been reared in com parative luxury, and how hard it was for them to go to work in silk mills under such circumstances I countered by giving him the his tory of Mfe insurance from the time the Phoenicians used to bet each other all they had that they would die and then let their wives collect. I told him that Lloyds would in sure a man against interlocutory de crees of divorce and. the owner of a canary bird against the loss of its voice,- if you would meet their terms. ' Auditor Finally Wilts. I kept this up till he wilted, which was Just In time, lor I had just about exhausted my stock of infor mation about insurance, which had been gained! only the previous night. It was on an, overnlgiht trip on the train that I found that my stuff was cold; - While the porter was making up my berth I went Into the smoking room and found a youne man. there "V""5 " """,0 puinug a cig- He . seemed glad to have com pany and responded readily enough 10 my enorts to start a conversa tion. I was full up on the habits of the ant at that particular time! but I couldn't seem to get an opportunity to begin till he mentioned that his cigarette case, which I had been admiring, had been given him by ms aunt .jiistner. That was i chance. - speaking of ants," -1 said, "did you know that In Africa tha ants are five-eighths of an inch long and t Hunu column wnicn eats Its way through everything in its patn, including entire villaees?" "I did," said the man, and yawned. "Did you know that In . South America there is an edible ant that contains , a large drop of honey which the natives gulp down in quantities and gain thereby a mild rorm or intoxication? "Yes," said the man, shortly. I dropped the ants, and picked up tne paper. "I see here," I said, "that cuttle fish bona Is quoted today at three cents. Week before last it was three and an eighth." T?hree and three-eighths," he corrected me. -: s . . Ou Uit Effort Made. "Hm," I said, a little daunted. "Green cabbage ia listed here at 13ents. It's up." . "Down." said the man. I made one more try. He picked up the-, conversation himself ' and said something about the locomo tive pulling the train. ' , 'John Stephenson," I began. He rose. .... "Look here." he said, "if you think you're telling me anything new, or have told me anything new, or can tell me anything new, you're wrong. "I know Just what you're going to say. I know what everybody's going to say nowadays. You've got the same stuff as nine-tenths of the people of this country, and you got it the same way. And the reason it doesn't interest me in the least is because I'm on a vacation from my job as the radib -broadcaster who has been supplying the people of the whole country with material for. conversation for the last six months." Whereupon he left me. I guess I'll have to take out the radio and buy an encyclopedia. I'll bet I'll never happen to run into the .fellow who wrote that. - Klamath County Asks Bids on $400,000 Bonds. Early Commencement of Road Work Is Forecast. EARLY commencement of road work in Klamath county Is forecast, says the Klamath Sun, In the advertising by the county court for bids for $400,000 of the $800,000 road bond Issue authorized by the voters 4n the special election. Bids will be opened June 24. Funds de rived from the sale will be allotted in part as follows: Rock creek road, J75.000; Midland road, J40.000; Cra ter lake road, estimated, 26,000. A large share of the fund will go to paving of The Dalles-California highway from Fort Klamath to the Deschutes county line, a distance of 70 miles. The county will pay 25 per cent of the cost The county's share is roughly estimated at $210,- 000. Bids for this work will be asked with completion of the sur vey. . Completion of this section of The Dalles-California highway will give an excellent, road from Merrill o the Deschutes county line with the exception of the portion between Lamm's mill and Fort Klamath. It is not probable that Improvement of this section will start this year. County Judge Bunnell said. Morning-Glories Held Pent. Wasco county farmers cannot see the gloryfcin a morning-glory. In fact, this flower-like weed spreads with such rapidity, and has such a tenacious hold on life, that It is threatening to dispossess the owners of hundreds of acres of otherwise good land, unless some methtid of successfully combating it can be found, according to F. B. Ingels of Dufur, who has a number of fields In which morning-glory has secured a start. Unable to kill morning-glory by all ordinary methods, about a year ago Mr. Ingels appealed to Oregon Agricultural college to come to his aid. As a result the college has sent a student who is now at In gels' ranch, whose sole work this summer will be experimenting ana attempting to exterminate the plant Ingels is paying the student a sal ary, and providing everything need ed to carry on the experiments, says The Dalles Chronicle. Forty Varieties of Berries Grown. Forty varieties of strawberries growing in one patch, vines set out in April, bearing a box of large ber ries to the plant, and older plants with 1000 to 1500 berries each, can be seen at the residence of George W. Taylor, president of the Lane county fair board, and one of the leading horticulturists in the coun ty, . says the Eugene Guard. Mr. Taylor has made a special study of strawberry culture and has produced . several varieties of berries. The or dinary strawberry plant is bi-sexual and pollinizes itself, but Mr. Taylor has developed varieties of each kind in both male and female plants. By crossing different varieties through hand pollinizing, saving the off spring berry and planting the seed, new varieties in both red and yel low berries, which have excellent color, size and flavor, have been pro duced. Ooquille to Have Bis Reservoir. ' Coqullle City is planning a big reservoir to hold a water supply of 40,000,000 gallons. In order to get this it will be necessary to add ten feet to the height of the Rink creetf dam, which will cost from $32,0001 to $40,000 more. The statement was made before the city council that CoquiHe is better situated for an ample water supply than any other city in Coos county, but, of course, says the Coquille Valley Sentinel, in case the unexpected happens and this becomes a city of 5000 inhabi tants, it will be necessary to go much , farther than Rink .creek to get enough water. Railway Ticket Covers 9000 Miles, One of the longest coupon tickets ever Issued from the Corvallis office of the Southern Pacific was sold last week to Professor Morris Wenk HOMESTEADS MELLOWED BY AGE NESTLE SNUGLY IN FOLDS OF PORTLAND HEIGHTS 1 1 " " 1 "4 ""J " ' ' ' Old-Fashioned Gardens Give Added Charm to Rural Scene of Pastoral Contentment, and Sheltered Posi tion, Enhanced by Age-Graved Woods, Augments Natural Beauties. : M1 ELLOWED with age ar-e some of Vie old homesteads that nestle eo snugly in the folds of th hllis ttat encircle the city. Venture out along almost any of the main traveled highways and these treasures of sylvan beauty are to be seen in goodly numbers. The little- place sketched above lies just over the crest of the west side hills near Mount Calvary cemetery. In excellent repair, it seems to have amply repaid tha time and attention. DO YOU REMEMBER? : Queen Thelma of the Rose Festival of 1914, and the odd-looking Uothes he and her princesses wore only eight short years ago? It scarcely; seems possible that skirts could shrink so much in so brief a time, but the picture bears witness and tiie camero- doesn't lie. There should be Inspiration-in the photograph for those who will be in the public eye eo much this week The writer does not care to gay that present-day-styles are far more attractive than those of 1914, but most people, both men and women, will agree that they are. Although clothes and make-up, generally speaking, change with time, beauty does not, r.nd there Is no doubt that the queen and. her princesses In that day looked Juat as sweet and appealing as those of more recent years. ' Most of this court remain with Portland"tlll. In the back row are: Sadie -Vlgus, Mary McKInnon, Bstelle McKarl, Hazel Rose Hoyt, Helen Fitzgerald, Mrs. W. P. Strandborg, publicity director f the Rose Festival and acting In the same capacity this year; Mrs. David Campbell, Beul&h) Barringer, Helen Mclver and Alice Husby. In' front are: Anna Tierney, Queen. Thelma Holllngaworth and Lina, Osterwold. Another member of ths court was Leola Martin. of the department of mechanical engineering at Oregon Agricultural college. Its coupons cover trans portation over 26 lines, a distance of about 9000 miles, reaching from Corvallis, Or., to Portland, Me.; Jacksonville, Fla.; New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Pro fessor Wenk is taking the trip pri marily to attend Harvard university summer school, but he will stop at many other universities to get ideas of how they do things in his par ticular line for use or adaptation in his work here, says the Corvallis Gazette-Times. River Farm Busy Place. Charles Watts of Clarke county, Washington, is farming feverishly these days, says the Vancouver Co lumbian. He is just a Jump ahead of the rising Columbia river with his lowlands hay and has three mowing machines working overtime on 300 acres where the hay Btands waist high and where all will be lost if the river continues to rise and gets out on the lowlands before the hay Is gathered. Some of the land is especially low and this hay Watts and his crew Is putting into silos green. Two feet rise of the river will reach this part of the land and, Inasmuch as the hay has to cure for a few days before it is gathered, he cannot take the chances. The other hay which is being cut as fast as the three mowers can cut it is being left to cure. Watts says he Is keeping ahead of the water and expects to get out- all right, but bewails the fact that he cannot let it grow. . , Curry Highway Contract Rushed. John Hampshire has opened of fices in Gold Beach preparatory to earrvinsr out two highway contracts. says the Coos Bay Times. He will build a stretch of road extending nnitli finm Ariznna. inn and , also haa tJie contract for building the new road in the Hunter Head sec tion south of Gold Beach. This piece of road Is only about seven miles in length but will cut out the worst hill in the road between Gold Beach and Brookings. Tools, material and equipment of all kinds are being assembled at Gold Beach and in big trucks are being trans ported to the new camps. Contrac tor Hampshire will employ about 600 men on the two jobs. Hotel accommodations at Gold Beach are taxed and the place promises to be a busy center this summer. Redmond to Have Cheese Factory. The brick and cement building for the cheese factory to be operated by the K Cheese company of Red mond, Or., is completed and instal ling machinery will begin the first of the. week, says the Spokesman. The building is 32x62, of fireproof construction,' and located conveni ently; for receiving milk and ship ping the finished product. The machinery cost $5000 and will be in operation within 30 days. -Forest Fire Sweep 1200 Acres. . A forest fire in Deschutes county. which probably originated from a slashing, burned over 1200 acres and called for the efforts of a score of men employed by the forest serv ice to extinguish. The fire was rn V' WlWWMWHii,.'...tr OLD HOUSE, MOUNT CALVARY. bestowed upon ft by the air of com fort and peace that radiates there from. In spring the old-fashioned gard ens that surround the house are worth journeying miles to see. Those who pass on the heavily-traveled roads seldom fall to turn their heads and lift foot from throttle as they slow down to get a second look at th charming little rural scene of pastoral oonterotment. While there is no Intention of prying, it. might be interesting if we knew who lived there. In any case stopped short of the forest boun dary.' In spite of the amount of rain and snow last winter, forest officials anticipate a dangerous fire season,- says the La Pine Inter Mountain. Lookouts have been placed on Walker mountain and Pine mountain, and others will be manned,wlthin a few days. Six G. A. R. Hen Celebrate. Combined nges of the host and five guests who attended the birth day party given by Captain R. M. PerHne at his home in Bend totaled 489 years, with A. F. Marrison, aged 77 on December 24, the "kid" of them all. L. C. Smith, who reached the age of 87 on March 12, was the oldest of the party, says the Bend Bulletin. All who gathered ft the Perrine home are veterans of the civil war and an hour was spent following the birthday dinner in reminiscences of the Bervice. A group picture was taken afterward. Ages and birthdays of the other guests are Thomas Tweet. H5. May 14; Theron Morgan, 80, August 15 and L. G. Reis, 78, November 16., Power Line Work Progressing. Work on the California - Oregon Power company high-tension power line between Prospect and Eugene is proceeding rapidly, according to T. H. Ness, construction superin tendent, who is in charge of the work. Mr. Ness has been located at Cottage Grove, but has moved to Roseburg, where he will remain several months. It is expected, says the Roseburg News-Review, the line will be Into Dixonvllle by July 15 and through to Prospect and ready ; for use by November 15. Work Is being rushed in order to avoid the early snows in the mountain dis tricts. , Powers to Get Electric Current. The Mountain States Power com pany, started stringing a wire to Powers to furnish electric current to that town. An additional wire will also be strung from Coquille to Myrtle Point. The company has finished running a wire from the main line over ' to Cooper bridge on the north fork, where the city of Myrtle Point is going to build a dam and install a pumping plant for tha city's water system, says the Coquille Valley Sentinel. Bis Chinook Salmon Caught. Bud Strom and Harold Prohs of Ashland motored to Savage rapids dam and spent four hours fishing, in which time Mr. Storm landed two Chinook salmon, says the Tidings. Te net weight of the two was 51 pounds with the heads off and en trails removed. The largest of the two fish weighed 37 pounds dressed and Nit required 1 hours to land- it. Mr. Strom was forced to Jump into the water up to his waist in order to get it to shore. Both fish were caught on a No. 4 spoon. Panthers Destroying Deer. A Coquille, Or., correspondent of the Southwestern Oregon Dally News quotes J. M. Thomas, fire warden, as saying that panthers are so bad in the Burnt mountain coun try near Tioga that they are run ning the deer out. . 'J ' v- im it seems certain that the folk who make their home in such a place high and sightly with a view for miles around, yet protected from the high winds of their lofty position by a sheltering shoulder of a hill must be those who love simple things. and natural beauties.' Un&polled by the touch of the professional gardener the age-grayed woods of the home blending with the background", this little dovecot In tha hills seems just as much a part of the landscape as do the fir trees that rear their heads In the background. ; CAMP LEWIS ONLY MEMORY OF ITS WARTIME SPLENDOR Returned Soldier Visiting Old Rendezvous Saddened by Decay and Desolation That,Grip Once Greatest of Cantonments. BY JERRY OWEN. I CAMP LEWIS, Wash, June 11 J (Special) To many of the of ficers andi men of the Oregon national guard Camp Lewis brings back poignant memories of the days of 1917 and 1918, when tha world was aflame and the throbbing of war drums was heard, throughout the land. Not a few were stationed here for at least a few weeks (Tur ing the period when grass did not cover the vast parade ground of the greatest mobilization camp in Amer ica, and the tramp of thousands of feet sent up a heavy, black dust which hung like a pall dver the can tonment, at times obscuring the sun. Those were the days When an un ceasing roar arose from the direc tion of the target ranges, where the staccato rattle of machine guns mingled with the slower bark of the Springfield and Enfre-lcb rifles as men from all walks of life were be ing schooled in the first requirement of an American soldier the ability to shoot straight and fast, ffhey were days when a distant rumble in the air told of the target practice of field artillery, stationed along the plains to the east of tha Nis qually river. w - - Feverish activity was eeen on all sides in those days as young offi cers, fresh from the training camps at the Presidio of San Francisco, worked side by side with. seasoned veterans of the regular army and specially detailed officers wearing the horizon blue of France or the greenish-Bray whipcord of Great Britain,- whipping into shape the men who were to carry the Ameri can standards to new fields of glory. ' In the depot brigade, scores of companies, manned by new officers and a skeleton training cadre of non-commissioned personnel, han dled from 250 to 350 new men every month, breaking them in to the routine of army life, equipping the-m from head to foot, giving them the rudiments of close-order drill and turning them over to the 91st divi sion, training on the south side of the cantonment, or shipping them to distant points in the United States to fill the quotas of other divisions in process of formation. The 91st was in the throes of molding that wonderful war ma chine which acquitted itself with such splendor In the woods of the Areonne and the valleys of Belgium. Today all that is gone. Mile upon mile of weather-beaten barracksi which might havq been saved for a great many years had they ever known a coat of paint squat stol idly in a huge horseshoe about the parade ground, an expanse now dot ted with blue and yellow flowers and overgrown with grass. A few ragged curtains appear at the win dows of some of the buildings. In vestigation will disclose that a ser geant from the skeleton divisions of the regular army stationed here has made his home In a building that once housed 300 men, his children playing in the "attic" where row after row of cots once held sway, his wife cooking dinner in a rudely fashioned kitchen which once served as in orderly room for company officers. "Company streets," once Immacu late, a level expanse on which not a rap of paper, cigarette stub or burnt match could be found, now are overgrown 'with weeds and a depos itory for rubbish of all descriptions. ' In the quarters being ma-ntalned by the regulars stationed at Camp Lewis, grounds are orderly and well kept, but the buildings are no longer new and the dust of years has grimed the boards. Pine and fir trees planted when the camp was new are burned and brown, the whitewashed rocks which once out lined paths and spelled the names of outfits are gray and scattered Red rust is eating deeply Into all ex posed pipes, chim-neys and) locks. The hostess house, where mothers, sisters, wives and. sweethearts spent a few precious moments sometimes their last with .their loved ones, hastening to Camp Lewis on receipt of word of impending departure of troops, is now an officers' club and the scene- of occasional social gale ties such as mark the average army post. The administration building, once a beehive of industry. Is the leisurely peacetime headquarters of a division of the regular army. Greene park, at ore time a minia ture midway, survives with one moving picture house, a couple of dirug stores and soft drink parlors, a barber shop, a restaurant and a popcorn stand. No special trains run dally to Ta coma, and the automobile bus lines to that city operate on lazy sched ules, waiting usually for a minimum number of passengers. Impatient lines of men and officers, stretched for hundreds of yards from the bus station, no longer are to be Been. Camp transportation has dropped from five-minute day and night service to occasional trips of a large' bus in the evening hours. Bayonet courses have fallen Into decay, sandbag dummies bearing gaping holes and suspended from rotting Topes. Intricate trench sys tems honeycombing the outskirts of camp are weed-festooned ditches. Intensive training is no longer prac ticed. Only the evergreen firs, circling and hemming the cantonment, seem as before, 'with majestic, snowclad Rainier lording it over the domain, a grim, beautiful sentinel in the ea6t outlined against the early light 'of morning, rosy and gleaming in the dying rays of evening sun. Sub lime in its grandeur, rising appar ently from the plain of Camp Lewis, itself. Rainier Is a perpetual monu ment to those brave men who lived their brief span. under its morning shadow and went to a foreign land, there to give their all to their , country. j.o tne returned. soMrfer, visiting his old camp, there is a feeling of sadness indefinably connected with the decay of Camp Lewis' former pomp. His feelings are akin to those of the immortal Rip Van Winkle, yet and this Is the impos sible, the unreal part of it all it is less than four years since Camp Lewis was the largest and most efficient link In our national traia- mg ana mobilization programme. Royalty's Guests Return Rented Jewels. Stores Open After Midnleht for Gems Worn at Functions. T ONDON, June 17. (By the As- XJ sociated Press.) A new turn ia London's reaction to the royal re ceptlons this season, the first of which occurred a few nights ago, was noted, by observers of the un usual and curious. For many years it has been the custom of. those who attended the courts at Buckingham palace for the first time to make a midnight pilgrimage after the pal ace affair ended to the photogra pher's shop in the west end, whera a permanent record would be made for the benefit of future generations, showing "just how father and mother looked when they were pre sented to their majesties." After this season'B first court the other night, however, it was noticed a number of jewelers' shops in the Bond-street district also were open, and those who sought an explana tion of these unseemly shopping hours found the gorgeously be decked occupants of numerous closed motor cars wers returning tiaras, ropes of pearls and other jewels they had rented for the eve ning's wear at court. .. The trade unions of England, cur rent developments show, are passing through difficult times. Their mem berships have dropped considerably during the year and their financial position has become worse. The un skilled workers' union apparently is the most affected. The member ship of the miners' unions, for in stance, has declined 100,000, and that of the general workers 82,000 and the railway men's union 7008. Will Thorn, a member of parlia ment, secretary of the National Union of General Workers, says the assets of that union fell during last year from 531,673 to 272,452, due to the partial stoppage of manufactur ing after the war, a general slack ening in trade, the payment "of un employment money to members, which amounted to 500,000 in 1921, and the fact that when the benefits from the government ceased tha members were unable to continue their contributions to the union. Education Petition Is Filed. PENDLETON, June 17 (Special.) More than 1600 signatures were obtained here in one day when 52 petitions circulated for the Initia tion of the compulsory education bill were filed with County Clerk Brown. According to present esti mates, the certification o.f the signa tures will run 80 per cent. The ini tiative measure, which will compel all children between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend public schools, Is meeting with great favor among the citizens of this county, and more women have signed the petitions than men. Read Tha Oregon! an classified adav A A