The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1880-06-26
SAVED BY A TERRIER
Battle With q Grizzly.

boi poiLt lAdl gun ll4ss way, MIS-
ter, if you please said nervous travel
er coming over the Union Psciic road
during one of the heavy snow storms
last winter. The passengers laughed at
his tears, tor they knew the gun had
been we'll fired Oft. The man who
brought the gun in lifted 1t and stood it
straight up. He had laid it down first
across the top Of the seats until he could
get little snipe of a dog from out the
breast OF his coat where he had him
packed. 1t was at Truckee station the
man procured the gun, m ost OF the other
passengers staged it over from the Sierra
Butte country The nervous passenger
did not get on until after the incident
occurred that emptied the gun SO com
pletely, and he was not aware Of its his
tory.
The weather had been tor few DAYS
extremely cold. Our train got to True
| kee, about four teet Of snow stuck us,and
what seemed curious, for it was SO cold,
a small stream the Truckee River, had
swelled up over the trestle work and
washed it out. It had been forty de-
grees below zero, but it was now moderat-
| ing. One mnn raised a laugh by getting
out on the platform and calling back,
"Come out, come out, its getting warm ;
its only ten degrees below"
! GAME SIGHTED.
The train was delayed several hours
| There were but halt a dozen passengers
all told, and they all got out on the sta
4 tion platform. In looking down the val
! ley from the station tTruckee IS away up
in the mountains on the main line of the
Central Pacific r. RI we could see some
kind OF an animal coming down out of
the timber and making its way over the
| top OF the snow towards the river. IT
| looked like steer or a mule and none
of the travellers thought il was anything
else.
The snow was about four feet deep and
frozen SO hard that one could walk over
the top Of It without breaking through.
Captain Vincent Yore, Of st. Louis, a
man well known in steamboat circles
both IN st. Louis and in Pittsburg, and
in tact all along the river was one of the
passengers. There IS considerable OF the
dare devil underneath his quiet demean-
or, having run the upper Missouri ia his
early days, and attended many an In
dian council along with General Sher-
man. when the General lived IN St.
Louis. Yore was returning from San
Francisco, where he had been % settle
some railroad business for 81. Louis par
ties, and was fixed up clean and bright
as new pin He spied the animal and
said he thought it vas a bear, and that
If he had gun he would 60 down and
shoot it. We all laughed at him, for he
did not look much ike bear hunter,
and the station agent, a Dig burly fel-
low with red flannel shirt, and boots
outside of his pants--a regular picture OF
a Forty y-nlner-joined in, saying he would
give him gun if he wanted to shoot the
grizzly. Capt. Yore was a good shot and
could be cool under very trying eircum-
stances. The agent, who was at once the
express agent, ticket agent, baggage
smasher and everything combined, wen,
into his little office and brought ont i
beautiful breecl-loailhg rifle. Handing
il to lolc, lie sald, sa,castically, Here
a gun" Capt. Yore took the gun and
started toward the end of the platform
The passengers, Of course, never dreamed
he was in earnest.
VALUABLE COMPANION.
The station agent called him back
when he had got down off the steps, and
bringing out little rat terrier dog of the
light, wooliy, Scotch pattern, said:
Here, you'll want q dog when you &C
bear hunting
Capt. Yore turned back, picked up the
dog, and putting 1t under the flap CT his
[ coat. started towards the bear. The griz-
zly had bv this time, got fa- enough out
to be plainly seen, as Ae made his way
across the narrow valley. He looked 70
be the size Of horse, and did notappeaI