The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-18
4 BEAR TN THE cow YARD.
Bruin Makes Foray and Walks on With
supper.

There are pretty sketches and pretty songs
Of the mllkmaid tripping along tiowery paths
20 pail the patient cow when the sun Is low
and the air Is full of fragrance. These pie
lures and poems are som etimes very pretty,
especially when -mbrllishrd with bright sur
roundings, with church spires peeping DER
the rounded hills beyond aud the mrilihuous
rhyme tells Of ancient pastures and the milk
ing stool has been used for generations Of
cows and milkmaids without a bruise 10 mar
its symmetry, or a missing leg TO suggest the
din of conflict and the violence of animal
passion.
But in Montana these rural pictures are not
always so arcadian and butter ought To be a
bit pound more TO compensate for little in
cidents that occasionally diversity life among
the milk pans. Everybody here knows Of
the Palmer ranch at Lower Warm Spring
creek, oaly a couple Of miles from where In
another year the Northern Pacific and the
Utah & Northern Railways will intersect
and the din Of bells and whistles will echo IN
the canons necessarily, but now a secluded
nook in quiet little tributary valley OF the
He'll Gate, affording one of the best sheltered
and most productive grazing ranges any
where. We also know that from that dairy
ranch comes most excellent butter and In a
quantity that evidences a large herd OF cows.
be milking and butter making Is the work
IF Mrs. VIM. j. Palmer. Having business In
rswn this week, BILLY" was absent and his
wife at home alone. On Sunday evening
last she drove the cows to the corral and put
he calves outside. A. they emerged from
| he corral great she bear with two luhb-rly
| cubs dashed upon the calves and in twink
| ling had sprung upon four months
| old calf and had 1t down III the
| tirt. A hinge Durham bull with the cattl,
iif fled the battle, made for the bear and thu
| ,mhat began. The calves AMI kline dew
| f.om the enemy aud Sir Durham charged
upon the foe only to receive stunning blow
| and scratch on the nose which swerved hin
from his course and brought him around will
a snort to again meet his enemy. While thi
was occurring, considering it contest In
yhich her presence was not required, Mrs
| Palmer hastily fled from the corral and Il
Peter Hauckis house, a mile away, for help
On returning in the morning the torn ant
| furrowed ground showed the desperatenes
f the battle, but the bear and cubs were gon
and had carried away the calf some two hun
lred yards, where they had partaken of
laiaty meal and left nothing but the bone
| 10 tell Of the feast. The Durham was no
much Injured, having probably consid 're'
lis duty done whun the Others Of his charg
we're protected from damage.
How would one Of our States milk-maid
ike an incident like that 10 divert thei
minds from the last Ledger story and contem
plation of the manner in which Jonatha
tied his cravat for the latest singing school
1t i only due to Mrs Palmer to say that sh
il more courageous than mot men. Som
N years ago her husband freed two tiv
months old cubs, AMI while he climbed tn
zee and knocked one off with club til
her ran down AMI after being grappled b.
the dogs was seized by Mrs. Palmer "a nd tun
b ell into gunny sack before her huSban
.ach-d the ground. This cub was presented
TO Sam Scott and IL well remembered by GU
people. A year or two later, while gather
iuy berries, she ran on to two bears and drov
I'm, off although her pony broke his laria
. Il lit out for homs Mr.. Palmer saws bear
- very plentiful about his ranch this veal
Within the past few weeks they have killed
lt ,iiff.rent times, another calf and COW n"a
his house. Lat year there were several Ell
counters with bear in berrying AMI one G
l more persons were killed. From what
hear In would be- well for persons berryin
l t us year to 60 well armed aud not get too II
from companions. Our Cinnamon bears al
really more dangerous animals than the grit
lilies.