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Pianos, Player Pianos Inarch of 21 Miles Over Doyala THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1921 other big glacial stream descends horse, passing along Second avenue, from the eastern slopes of Mount fascinated them. They looked at each ASCENT OF EVEREST Everest. Here we had selected a pi WAT VES other and nodded their heads. They for our new base camp, at abo gazed almost with terror at a swiftly EI traveling motorcycle. 12.300 feet, and had rented a hou and earden. and we Ditched our tent The elevators in the office build- BEGINS THIS TH under the shadow of the poplars and MYSTIFIED Br AUTO ings left them speechless but rest- f willows. It is a charming spot, high less and they displayed a tendency up on an old- river terrace, and com to climb the walls but they were not H American girl mands fine- views both up and dow as badly scared as an the Arun valley. of 18 years ago who, born in- - Fair- banks! Alaska, made her first visit Zone Sheltered From Storms. to Seattle last week. She shrieked The Laundry Versus the Washing Machine Attempt to B.e Made From A mile below our camp the Arun Party Halts Car in Seattle at the Woodland park zoo. river begins Its descent through fea some gorges. is no path Visitors Crowd About Cages. - . East to Scale Mount. There Streets to Investigate. urn-- - .rrtn route farther down the valley, as the They crowded about the cages while rrfe! f- great several Captain Amundsen and Mr. Hammer IROflED') STARCiING I iii cliffs descend sheer for wringing Zflatviork ) ere u- thousand feet into the river. It was labored hard at explanations. The FlAnnELS. u - curious to watch the monsoon clou fact that they could stand so closely REA0V FOR USt! to wild animals and yet be safe 41! coming up the gorge and meltin jilLUlll ' K.iHW OTHER ROUTES REJECTED away, fading just before they reach EXPLANATIONS DON'T SUIT seemed to fascinate them. They wet us. Hail and rain came down steadily their lips as they studied a bear. He a couple of miles away, but we were looked like a dozen good meals to them, they explained to Captain just on the edge of the dry zone and way. very little came ud to us. Amundsen In a suggestive The I made a trip one .day to the south. Guests noted explorer did not take the hint. Explorers Meet Great Obstacles northerners, of' Captain This week Captain .Amundsen and Puring Final Surrey Incident high level valley at about 15 Amundsen, Amazed at Sot Mr. Hammer will take the six Sibe- derful rians to the circus. 000 feet, in which were 14 lakes, Fin-di- The Laundry Performs All These Thinks (WuUerFd to Bash for Peak. of different colors, varying in shades Animal Under Car. When the sextet return to their a green to lightest tur remote dwelling place in Siberia, it from black the is said, they will probably have one quoise blue. This valley, too, was They taradise of wild flowers, and I coun of two courses open to them. eight varietie can keep silent on what they saw in BIG outstanding feature of the XCopyrteM. 1H21, by the Public ledger Co. ed rhododendrons and SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 11. (Spe Seattle thus retain their reputa- Published by Arrangement.) of gentians as I walked along. clal.) Six Siberian natives, members and rendered by the modern meconopsis also tions as truthful men, or they can THE SIMLA, India, Sept. 5. (Special glorious, deep claret of the remote Tsyukstji tribe, out on describe the automobile, the horse, says grew there, about two feet in neignt an of today, laundry is that it is a complete Cable.) The newspaper Pioneer on each automobile tour the city the big buildings' and the dainty the Everest expedition's base is only and with 15 to 20 blooms had traveled less than two blocks creature, tripping across Second ave- service. It relieves you of all the 20 miles east of Mount Everest in- stem. when they begged that the machine nue, and live forever after as the stead of 30 miles, as bad been report- Bnd Weather Interferes. be brought to a halt. The moment tribe's greatest disciples of Ananias. trouble, worry and hard work con- ed, and that the party expects to On August 2 Bullock and Mallory the machine stopped, all six climbed make a final attempt to climb the started up Khartatsangpo to explore over the side and with eager eyes be nected with the family washing. From the time that the mountain from the east early this the eastern approaches of Moun gan peering under the car to find ROAD NEARLY FINISHED driver calls for your washing until he returns it to you month. The expedition expects to Everest. On the same day Morshea the wonderful being man or dog return to Uarjeeling at the end of and Wollaston rejoined us after the who was able to push the vehicle immaculately clean, it passes through many processes Longshahi. Tb Lost Lake Highway Inspected bj October. trio to Kilam and along at such remarkable speed. clothes-savin- g. weather. unfortunately. interfered They mi that are scientific, sanitary and It is a -- looked under the car, then they T. .H. Sherrard. BT COLONEIi HOWARD BURT, much with their plans. However, they looked at each other and then they mi service that is true economy. Leader of the Mount Everest Expedition got some lovely views of Gaurisanka looked under the car again and after HOOD RIVER, Or- - Sept 11. (Spe- (Copyrighted and Supplied by the Mount a most strikingly beautiful mountai cial.) of Everest committee.) that they looked with dazed eyes at T. H. Sherrard, supervisor with fluted and almost transparen two Captain the Oregon national forest, was here KHARTA, Aug. 4. (By run do they their hosts, Roald Now, home washing machine of today. Be Tibet, ridges, so thin and ethereal Amundsen, world-famo- Antarctic from Portland yesterday to inspect take the it Her to Simla, India, Sept. 6.) (Spe appear. Wollaston also found in completion and Arctic explorer, and H. H. Ham the Lost Lake highway, so modern, performs only about one-thir- d of the cial Cable.) A month having been loveliest blue Primula, with droopin Ship of which by forestry crews is only a ever it spent in reconnoitering coming mer, president of the Universal the northern bells of deep blue just into ping & Trading company. matter of a few weeks. Mr. Sherrard actual work of the family wash. It does not hang out end western approaches of Mount flower. said of lake surrounding Ah, said the six Siberians Yarak, the forested shores the Everest and mapping the The weather was now at Its worst. Tenek, Rolte, Cakot, Takatkin and might become one of the most popu the clothes, or dry them, or keep them free from dust country, it was necessary, as the time The clouds came down to 16,000 feet spirits.1 lar points in the community. Auto was on, camp to Attotoe in one breath, "ah, and dirt, or take them in, or sprinkle, starch or iron them. getting to move our and remained there all day. So it is No, said Captain Amundsen, no mobile parties by the thousands have the east side of the mountain in or just a question of waiting until fine visited the section this year. th spirits." Its cost, maintenance and operation represent a goodly e'er to investigate the nature of weather comes, which I hope the end No bad spirit?' questioned Cakot Labor day the motor visitors to the approaches and what were the pos of the month will bring. eagerly. region were estimated at 2000. sum of money. It is something that lies idle more than eibilities in that direction. Our surveyors, however, have made No bad spirit," asserted Air. Ham week does' not Great Difficulties Rise. every use of the fine days we had mer. six days each an investment that pay The northern and northwestern and have already mapped more- than "No good spirit?" questioned Tenak. 40 SOCIALISTS ARRESTED dividends. 9000 square miles of new country. faces of the great mountain would No Spirits at All Is Reply. appear on close investigation not to Radicals Charged With Distribut oytv washes afford a practicable means of ascen The announcement that the explor "No good spirit," replied Captain bundle up everything and "Send to the Laun- to the summit, ad the difficulties to ers expect to make this month Amundsen. He then tried to expla'n ing; Prohibited Literature. nta unities Just it attempt" to climb Mount Ever that there are no spirits in Seattle. tie surmounted at extreme heights 'final HONOLULU, Sept. 11. Forty-s- o dry." will mean more time for other household duties, would, it is feared, prove insuperable. est comes rather unexpectedly, as The six looked at him with doubting It eyes. cialists, charged with distributing housewife. is On the south side, too, as far as could both dispatches from the expedition prohibited and leisure hours for the It true economy. be seen the mountain is defended by and authoritative commentators No spirits in Seattle," he said, literature, have been taken "All spirits are now in Vancouver," into custody by the Japanese au great precipices, so that the only seemed to indicate, the big effort according a cablegram hope of finding a possible way to the would not be made until next year, and the noted explorer didn t even thorities, to Phone the Laundry Today crack a smile.
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