JAPS CAUGHT DRAWING MAPS

Subjects of Mikado Run Off When Boy Sees Them Noting Topography of the Country About South Park.

ORIENTALS ARE TAKEN UNAWARES BY STUDENT

Little Brown Men Are Discovered on Promontory From Which, if Guns Were Stationed, City Could Be Swept.

Two Japanese, believed to be government spies engaged in making topographical maps of Seattle, were discovered Saturday afternoon at South Park by Edwin Holm, a high school student. When the Japs became aware of the fact that Holm was watching them they ran back into the woods. Holm saw them again yesterday at the drawbridge which crosses the Duwamish [illegible] at South Park, where they were [illegible] busy with paper and pencil.

Holm first noticed the mysterious little brown men while he was working on the property of his father on the side hill west of South Park. The strangers were on the top of the hill above the house. Holm watched them for a while, after getting as close as he could, and could plainly see that they were drawing maps and taking down notes. A small brother had followed him up, however, and when the little boy saw the Japs, be could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. The Japs then saw the boys for the first time and ran through the woods in the direction of Youngstown.

Holm says the Japs did not have the appearance of farmers or laborers, but were well dressed and wore high boots, indicating that they had been doing considerable travel by foot. The hill in which they were discovered is high. It not only overlooks the whole Duwamish Valley, but from it a splendid view of the whole city, including Magnolia Bluff and a portion of Salmon Bay, may be obtained. Since the Japs were seen there, the South Park citizens have made a little study of the situation, and they declare that if cannons were planted on the promontory they could sweep the whole city.

Not only Holm, but many of the neighbors, have been impressed with the large number of Japs that have been settling in the Duwamish Valley lately. Some of them have also been noticed on the hill where the two well-dressed individuals were seen Saturday, and why they should frequent such an isolated place cannot be explained.

Japanese have been discovered during the last month taking photographs of the country around Port Townsend, where the three forts at the entrance of the Sound are situation, and have also been seen doing the same thing around Aberdeen, where an army planning an invasion of this section of the country probably would land.