Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-10-19
A BRAMNY BEAR saesED.
Thrilling Adventures DC an Eastern
Girl IN the Rockies.
Tie MoOnkOi Soag Of the -Buro---A Bed
OF Pine Needles ard Roof Of Pine
6Oughs---antics Of IA Bear tx
cited BY Bgitets--The
Hunters Hanted.

70 BcOokEa!e. \ most delightful resting
place 20 the weary Eastern tourist. IRagiae
brook-troCt three times 4 dag. taken from
the romantic Little BeI- Greek Just before
the log house. where yo1 MAJ catch them
YoU-seif; coy, comfortable rooms, with
my little wool Stoves, the richest OF cream
and everything vel cooked and servsd by
the mistress OF the ranch Wild 9Owers dot
the feds, and charming ya.,e7s invite 10
walks or rides. The grand oii Rockies ing
closely this spot. Towering up among the
SHOWS hundred feet higher than Pixies
8 doubled-peakei mountain, whose ridge
!ooSs as if a giant had bitten piece out OF
II. This IS said TO De the summer resort of
The Rock Mountain sheep, which at the
least alarm fy TO cliffs inaccessible to less
sure footed man, from whence they look
calmly down upon the 5afaed hunter. The
deer seek these cold heights and here is the
home OF the white-plumei quail, that rests
N the eterns! suoE-5anks. Nothing WAS
SAID Of the bear when this teuderfoot was
5eguiled 10 make he twelye-mile ascent
The Song Of the Burro.
First in the outfit was the burro or Jack
ass. Did you ever hear a burro sing?
FIRST trumpet blast, fraught With the con-
iensed agony Of thousand OF Mrs. South
Sorth's Eoyess then s. piercing shrek, as
rom = locomotive with the colo, alternatei
With deep, despairiug groan, that haunts
The air for miles and fingers in ones ears.
It IS Comical to see the little, long-eared
animal, with It's neck stretched out. giving
vent to the long,suppressed story of its woes.
\ distant performance at night is startling.
" weird. The tender:oo:. with Ha! Sisty,
a Colorado crack shot, and Johnny, aged
thirteen, rode away with guns and saddle
bags while the ba-ro stepped along under
an enormous pack Of bedding. sva~ing
from side TO side. We started at H. To-
wards noon after following The ever-clinb-
Ing trail few mile, We stopped TO enioy
urch, and at about t . clock reached a spot
or canning near the timber line. 4 group
,fthe stunt-i pine trees that are ouIv found
at very high attitudes formed our dwelling
The taLest was scare i've feet hiZa, Al
hougt : must have cen Two teet around
he trunk About three feet above the
Lround tie ranches start ont horizontally,
% compa,r that they formed . COOL pro-
sc.ioa The rius-need.es lsy beueaJh thi>
,o0sgee fourteen inches deep, making d
;ole-ai'a couch Neyt morning fo-riaed
bv a good camp breakfast. the two men SET
out to hunt. leaving Johnny in charge OF
the animals. This trust be fulfilled by
letting the bu-To stray honeward
Bagging Bear.
\ dark object was sooa sighted moring
across the plateau towards the peak. As it
approached It proved to De real live Dear.
Hal Sisty being q youthful bat enthusiastic
disciple OF Nimrod wanted to get his first
shot al Dear inscauter. So nv companion
lent him new tjx70 Ballard rifle, holding
the old one in reserve. Following the suI-
nal short distance, Hal placed himself
among some old bushes and hrei. The
welLalmed ball went home and the bear,
after springing into the air about ten feet,
turned quickly with eyes blazing and mouth
wide open Then De made a Dee-Iine for
HaI. Hho thought he heard the angel voices
calling him ILal fired again, SenIing
bullet into TIE yrutes mech, Repeating
the previous gymnastics lie made for the
terrified Hal II great jumps. The other
man was running TO ais sista1te anu Ia.
U.s. preparing for hand-to-hand light for
life. whe1 the GEAR suddenly changed his
course and Di.Ing close Ov the ambush re-
turned down the mountain The now brave
hunter gave chase az full run Pausing TO
ire again and again. rs the Dear neared
the creek a shot struck his backbone as he
rose in his leaps, Hseveu made one or two
Jumps with his spine separated four
inches, out inall7 stopped and tried to sit on
his lunches, though his broken back made
him SWAY TO and tro still keeping his fore
paws working in the air. ! iast bullet
penetrated the base Of the in and he
tumbIed over dead. Halls pruI0unded res
oect for the bear tenacity OF life induced
him TO give the motionless body two more
doses If lead 10 settle his stomach. When
skinned it was ir1nd thar the nine bullets
had passe,I clean though him He was
two-yearold ,lver-tip or ;jmParlne a
species harllv exceIled ia terocitv and
malice ov the grizzly The tnr IS the finest
OF all bears fur. verv deep and white near
the skin. 1t will make me a magnificent
opera cluax. The flesh though a tude
coarse. was teuder as a tilet OF Young beef.
That afternoon It was raining in the valleys,
bnt on the mountains We enjoyed three
snow. storms as reminder Of August. By
climbing over enormous boulders We got s
ptarmlgan
AuUnu-Icom- Midnight Caller.
Il was decided 70 20 three miles down
the mountain that evening BY moonlight.
There two huge rocks had fallen together
forming round cave. shallow and very vide
at the entrance. \ ire was built n lat
rock before the opening and after a late
supper three very tired and sleepy iudividu-
as squeezed under cover at II 30. just as
thew were DOING OF, one Of the horses
snortsd and ran the length OF the larlat. an
other Reighed, some dry Twigs cracked, and
We realized the awful fact that We had
bear for a midnight visitor 50 the two
men crawled cautiously 70 the entrance,
while poor Johnnvs teeth chartered audi
BIZ. By the light OF the DYING FIRE We saw
a giant grizzly sitting only a dozen feet
away. and as Hal said afterwards, It seem
ed zif ne could Just see his old nose wig
Cling up and down snaftiIng 81 the bear
skin hanging on s tree Had We shot Al
him he would have come right into the
cave and made supper Of Is Thinking
70 frighten him away, Hal cooked bis gun
and shot twice into the air. Peering eau
tiously around the corner, he discovered 70
his horror that the bear had not budget an
inch! He SAYS be forgot what happened
next, but the other man saws Hal laid has
gun softly down. whispering With imploring
earnestness. Don't shoot Don't shoot
and crauled under the bedclothes. After
few excruciAting minutes Mr. Grizzly de-
cided to move on The Boy Johnny was as
pale as a corpse and shaking with fright.
II people are are ever scared out Of their
growth think he viii be small man Bat
the reception Is not over get. The same
bear or other bears came rus1hng around At
freauent intervals through the night keep
ing the poor uneasy fellows watching untl
IN the morning. At least they lay down