Show History Is Traced in Adobe Bricks of Old Missions Missions' Berkeley Calif Adobe bricks aricks from ruins of pf a Dominican Dominican Do Do- Mi Mission sion in in Lower ower California have preserved evidence of a smallpox epidemic epidemic epi epi- pi- pi demic that ravaged the Indian Indi an population in 1781 Two Cal California ornia scientists who have been examining bricks from old old missions missions mis mis- made the discovery of bones in bricks from S San Vicente Mission It t is supposed that tha t builders of the mission must have shoveled In bone fr fragments from unmarked graves of smallpox victims when they were get getting ing earth to tomake make th the brick Yield Many lany Clues Mission bric bricks s are re yielding many clues to early western history according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the two brick investigators tors Prof G. G W. W Hendry of the University of California and M. M K of the State Department of Agriculture On some bricks are footprints of men dogs coyotes birds and in other bricks have been ben found nut nutshells nutshells nut nutshells shells leather trimmings pottery copper fragments s and seed of plants grown in early days in the west |