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Show OGDEN SCOUTS ARRIVE AT PARK Party From Here Starts on First Leq of Hike Through Yellowstone YEI Aj iWSTON'E PARK. Wyo , July 2J. Into the sweet-smelling fir forests of Yellowstone National park. : Hoy Scouts of ogden marched sing-mg sing-mg today, on the first leg of their annual an-nual hike. They were accompanied b 16 scout officials and others. The party detrained at West Yellowstone. Yel-lowstone. Mont., early this morning snd made the hills ring with their ! shouts. More than HO persons were In I the party. Besides ample equipment to provide the boys with hot. nourishing in:ils. the outf.t included a photographer photogra-pher and 4000 feet of motion plctura film, which will make a permanent record of the unique trip, aith the iuungsters against a background of the park's wonders geysers, hot springs, lakea and canyens. I Representatives of the purk administration admini-stration Joined the scouts at West Yellowstone to be with them throughout through-out the entire Ulp Superintendent Horace M. Albright and Mi!..n P. Skinner, park naturalist, will spend neveral days each with the party later ion Camp Ires at ths different stopping stop-ping places mill be enlivened by talks i on the history nnd wild life of the i Ibrk, nnd some of tne romantic ndven-ture.i ndven-ture.i connected with the nat.on's gi latest playground Today's hike was only five miles to give the lads a chance to stretch their i'et..re commencing any climbing. 011 no day will the hike be more than 1 2 miles and the average Is (gee than that to accommodate outhful muscles mus-cles to the steep grades. Lam th.in two I hours after the start was made tOde . the si outs were In camp nt River sid . langi-i station on the banks of the Ifadlaon river, and most of them were gettlr.g fishing tackle ready to go af- iter som of the trout which abound Ir. all the park streams After their first nigh In the open. the scouts leave the i Ov.d tomorrow 'morning and lake to the trail for a tin -mile walk through country made historic by the Indian raid of 14 77 to the next enmp nt Fountain ranger station sta-tion on the banks of the Nez Perce creek In the Ixwer Geyser basin. More than seventy boy scouts and 'scout officials of Ogden and Salt Lake .Ii parted ls night In a special car for Yellowstone national purk where I they will spend two. weeks before returning re-turning to this city The entire party Is In charge of Scout Executive 3. A. i Goatee. The entire party nssembled nt City ' II. ill park shortly before 9 o'clock nnd marched to the I'nlon depot neaded by Scout Executive G. A. Gontee. Dr. Charles O. Plummer. Scoutmasters Delbert Foulger and George Ilerg-1 Ilerg-1 strom and Deputy Commissioner Lysle Kirkln. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the s. outs crowde.l the union depot prior tn the departing of the train. Songs and yells chorused through the depot, the scouts being In high spirit The scouts were scheduled to arrive ar-rive at the west entrance of the park .early today. News of the doings of the! scouts on their present trip will he wirelessed to The Standard-EXnmlner Icily. In the absence of Scout Executive Execu-tive G. A Gootes Lysle Larkln will act ao scout executive. oo |