The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-09-24

ana Keen shot, too. Many's the time
I've seen him up here ut Solcdad ride
full run past the flagstaff and spatte,.
the pistol-balls into il rs he went by
And every shot was there, too. That
was before he took To the road lie
could just lay all over his horse, and
hang ON him anywhere, and Jump ON
him on the dead run
Chavez has "A good horse, too. Whon|
he got away from Tex he went in hur-
~. tell YOU, and where he went up the
hill We found where his pony's hoof,
clipped holes out Of the sand rock that
YOU could lay your hand into
haven't quite decided what I'll dol
with the thousand or two that'll be mn,
share Of Chavez guess III leave the
country. but | won't 90 To Arizona
There's poorer dirt in Arizona than
there is in this region, and man can't
make respectable pay here. There ain II
no such pockets and gulches and
washes here like there used TO be- No in
the north country where man would
occasionally light onto something that
was worth while. This patch has been
shook and boiled and mixed up so much
AhAA ~ - lNHA ARV l'VVt W WIN I'Af
every thing here, and ! know il; hn'
its scattered broadcast, and YOU can
rake il in. There's every dang mineral
and salt and boraX and chemical stuff
right here in these hills The other
day was diggin' over that bluff there 90
see what could find and CHANGED on
A STREAK OF rRUssIAN Blue.
the real soft, dusty stuff, which you
could throw up in the air and it would
float around and hesitate and didn Z
know whether 10 come down or not
These mountains are all gophercd up
with prospect holes, but none of them
paid 10 work on small scale If al
man could bring in his Cinnamon and
his water and make bit day OFF Of
every dang John, like Yankee fastory
man a grindin' his girls, he would make
big money; but then what can a poor
man do? There was an old Teller that
tried that up the valley, but when Ice
had spent wellnigh $4,000 on his
ditch and works the water went back on
him. That's the same canyon where
killed my last grizzly, but ! was a fool
for huntin' bear in hollcr when there
was hills around. When "A mans after
grizzly he wants 10 be on the upper hill
side Of them, for he amt got no show
il he's below them or on the same level
And when this old devil came for me-
just breathin' hard and snarlin and
workin his jaws, lit up the all like
h--l-had- sont-her You see that biz
toe Of mine? The nails clean gone
and climbin' that hill on that occasion
is where | tore il off. and had mocca-
sins on, too. But l fixed him when
once got the bead on him. Put sil ball,
in him, that I'm certain Of. You can
see his hide right up here NJ my shanty
Ii measures seven by nine feet, and ID
came off bear that weighed Loo
pounds. lie "a been foolin' around and
eatin up my honey and so on until 81
last he killed Tim Peters cow, and then
we Law for him. You could see wherc
he snaked himself along behind som,
bushes up TO that COW just like dang
cat. Next night he came back for an
other feed, and there was a gun set for
him, and he pulled it off and it cracked.
his leg, and the day after that We danced
around his carcass.
A bear has very peculiar voice, when
he's walkn' along, contcnted like lle|
sort o. whistles and chirps between ms
teeth like a bird clippers. never
would believe il till heard one. used
TO be afraid Of bear hut ! amt any
more. remember the first one ever
had any dealin's with. had hired ont
to Old Man Moseby To herd his hogs up 4
in the Francisquito Wash. All went
sleek enough the first day, and at night
Ipenncd them up in a stake corral and
rugged up my bed "A rod or so outside The
gate. and, a the ground was triiie
damp, lifted my blankets a foot or
two on little bunk. About midnight
grizzly came down the hill and walked
right over that stockadc in among them
- Boo-Sh-sh. they went, every dang oneI
of them and broke out Of the corral. =
The first one ont run under my bed and
lifted me, blankets and all. higher than
Gilderoy's Kite. When came down
lii on another hog and he thought was
that dang bear, and he bowsed and snort
ed boo-sh-sh. and passed me on ~ TN
next. | hope to die il | didn't traNe
half a mile that way, just from one hog
back To another, and the nightwas pitch
dark, and was stranger in the coun
try. OF course me and my blankets go'
separated. and We never got them hogs
again, neither. We'd trail one of then
for mile or two into the thickct am
find him settin' straight up on hi
launches, but when he'd see u he
think it was that dang bear and snor1
boo-sh-sh, and run. Old Moseby never
hired me to herd any more Of his hog
and. In fact, | never asked him for th'
job"
Then the hunter. Moore. stopped 70
take chew of tobacco, and ! retired
write up my notes before they got cold
Thus lost the remainder of the enter
tainment But in the course OF the even
ing heard some one say: