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Show J ARELESS CAMPERS TRACED 15Y 1'APEUS THEY LEAVE Ordinary wrapping paper used by a big store in Spokane, Washington, and a 2-day-old copy of a newspaper published in the same city, were the (lues whereby Uncle Sam's forest rangers apprehended a party of campers who recently caused a forest for-est fir? on the Chelan National Forest, For-est, says the United Slates Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. A crew of Forest Service men on guard duty on and around Lake Chelan came across a forest fire that bad started from a carelessly abandoned aban-doned camp fire. Prompt work checked the fire. Then the forest antier in charge of the crew began to bunt abound for means to identify identi-fy the campers. Apparently no eluon r o i ) 1 1 1 l;e found until one of the men discovered some crumpled paper that bad been thrown in near-by bushes. Upon e- a ininat ion this wad of paper pa-per turned out to be wrapping paper .taring the name of n store in Spo-lane. Spo-lane. Inquiries made among other croups of campers on the shores' of bake Chelan revealed the fact that a party of men had been seen In n opinio near the spot wbnre the fire bad occurred. The next step was to trace that e:.ii;te. which the forest ranger did, Hurling that the men had brought the c-.iioe in nn automobile to the head of a creek loading into the lake and t'lere launched it. Both automobile nd ennoe. bowever were now gone. Th- rcornS R(,rvjf.n rnen wore just about readv to admit they were baffled baf-fled when they came to a spot along Hip creek which hail been occupied as an ove"rigbt ramp. They slopped to e-feiine the remains of the camp Ire to m;ii;f sure it was d'.'tirl and In o doinc catne aeross a two-day-old .'.;.y cf a new -paper published In Snot-ane upon which was written a nan's namp and address. Some nearby near-by campers told them the spot had be. n oeenviied by several men who bad eorri" :.T-d rfin"in a canop. Liibior' the wrapping paper, the ''")" on ib iiewspn per, and the ra-.op ra-.op to'-.M-or tap r-'Tic r reported to '" f'T" rters that he bidipv.el the 1 ' 1 1 ' " ''et.arte e' in Snoltano could h!; )!'! rePji guilty of causing ('l-p f-.i'o, I ('re. ! A".'1 r,t it turned out. Each man .!,, rr,,, r,. (, ,,:,r.,. r,.. ,j;iy rot-pond to 'i-.'piri' si'!-' tit" m.-n war soleet-'o soleet-'o v-lm'-rilv return to the town of '"'.bin to dead guilty and pay the fines for the party. |