A forum in Utah this week celebrated the life and mystery of a young artist who vanished in southern Utah in 1934. Bones found last year were recently confirmed as those of Everett Ruess.

The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society.

By MANNING, David INTO THE WILD (Starring Emile Hirsch. Directed by Sean Penn. M. Suter Cinema) -------------------- The call of the wild has been fertile territory for poets, novelists and film-makers.

By DANIEL BARBARISI Journal Staff Writer This is the first installment in an occasional series about the coming attempt by Saunderstown resident Timothy Warren, a Warwick chiropractor, to climb Mount Everest next spring.