, 1885-11-17
A FATAL STORY.
The Skeleton Of an English Tourist
Discovered.
A Desperate Fight with a Huge
Silver Tip Bear.

LANDER, Wyo.. Nov. l4.-From a
Shoshone Indian Just in from a hunt in
the Big Horn mountains your correspond
ent learns a fatal story of a last years
bear hunt by an English hunter. Some
two weeks since, at the foot of a lofty
precipice, the Shoshone found the skele-
ton of a man and a bear. In the grip of
close and deadly combat they had toppled
over the dizzy edge of the cliff to a
crushed and mangled death on the jagged
rocks below. The frames of both bear
and man were powerful specimens OF their
respective species. The bones of the man
closely approached the gigantic, while
those Of the bear suggested the greatest
strength Of the terrible and dreaded silver
tip or Rocky mountain grizzly. Amid
the massive ribs OF the bear was still
planted the long and once trenchant
blade of a hunting knife. The keen
weapon had been driven home Ly a Wig
Orous hand. On the crushed hins of the
human skeleton was still the battered
remnants of a handsome revolver. evil
IDENTIFY of English make. On the breach
plates of this weapon were some words.
These, as traced on the ground for your
correspondent by the Indian, were J.. b.
Lon. Thus, last winter in the Big Horn
mountains persisted an English hunter,
and probable tourist.
By the way, the paragraph going the
rounds of the press entitled How to
winter cabbage, has solved a most anx-
ious and harrassing personal problem for
the editor of the Lander Momtaheer.
The Carisa mining company, of South
Pass, are purchasing heavily in mining
property. \ day or two ago DIR. Geo. II.
Uaught transferred to them six claims
near Miners Delight for the sum of
$1,000. The company has also purchased
considerable mining property near South
Pass from Mr.. VIM. Pipkin, paying
heavily therefor. They have sent into the
county clerks office amendments to a
great many old locations, on which they
will take out patents.
Quite a number of oil prospectors of
the Big Horn country met here last night,
and 4 comparison of notes showed conclu-
sively that there still remains concealed in
the vicinity of the Conant and Auten re-
cent bonanza find a spring fully as large
and valuable. Active prospecting will be
kept up as long as the season permits.
Having succeeded in e~ffecting his escape
from his persistent and inconsiderate
johnson county and Idaho enemies, it is
reported that "Blacky' Marks, the Teton
basin horse thief and desperate. will win
ter in Lander. 'Blacky' is cunning and
knows where to hide. Within the last
few months an important subdivision of
the active and dangerous robber organiza-
ton ofthe Teton basin has been broken
up. Five notorious desperadoes have
been effectually done away with. Teton
jackson, captured by the johnson county
sheriff. gets fourteen years in the Idaho
penitentiary; Red Roxie and Jack Rich
ards. captured by Idaho parties, also re.
ceive heavy sentences. Bill Thompson
has been riddled by Idaho bullets in the
midst of stolen horses, and "Blacky''
Marks is the only one left. What have
our Fremont county men done in all this2
Echo answers, what.
Considerable snow has fallen here, and
the road to Rawlins seems to be badly
blocked. Apropos, the editorial pen of
the Lander Molmtaineer mildly deprecaies
the use of the term snap ever in refer
ence to the weather. The term is ultra
radical, highly sensational, and suggests
possibilities the Momaneer shudder to
think Of.