Show Encounters En Un Elephants ts Tigers Tiger in Oil Search Having elephants knock down telephone lines and finding tigers prowling through the camp at night Is part of the daily dally routine in the oil oUm in the Jungles of India Gerrit of Dordrecht Holand Hol Hot land and said during his h visit in Salt Lake ke Wednesday During the past live five years Mr the son soni of Mr and Mrs Adrian East Filth Fifth South street has been serving as an engineer for an oil in Suma Suma- tra He is now en route to his home j in Holland to spend several months with his family One of our biggest biggest big big- gest problems during durt dur dur- t ing certain parts of 4 the year is to keep i the telephone lines in repair Mr said x 1 The T h e elephants which make their Mr periodical visits seem to take tak great in knocking the poles down or pulling them from the ground One cannot be too careful in in going gong go go- ing ng about the jungles as the tigers are still plentiful Although few white white- people have been killed recently recently re reo re- re many of the natives still fall victims to tigers and other jungle ani ansi mals mats Mr om related one ence that he had with a tiger which nearly nearly cost cost him his life me He had driven driven en to town alone to get mail and on returning at night encountered a huge hu e tiger in the road rondo The lights of the car flashed on the beast as he was wa-s preparing to spring Being unarmed Mr decided de do- decided the best thing best thing to do was try to drive past the beast ast at full speed As the machine got within a 1 few f feet t of the ti tiger er the animal leaped but slid off oU the side of the engine onto the ground Th The next day a party pary r re returned returned re- re turned to the spot and killed the thc beast After After visiting his parents during the next two weeks Mr will then go to Chicago to visit the Century of Progress exposition and anti then continue to his home in Hol Hol- land |