Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-04-24

u of the heat-the hands held in tha
~ position perhaps to warn him whel
. the heat got too great for the safet,
L OF his buckskin oyeralls. He wor
gum boots (also pervious to fre), buck
skin schaps as aforesaid, and heav,
l. flannel shirt, SO heavy in fact that tha
he saved the expense of vest and coat
. Wherever he went there was str ,ns
odor of beaver musk, which in tht
, matter of perfume is cross between
the smell Of wigwam and that of al
opium den
''Yes, a silver. tip is bad enough
when he's wounded, and about as
active bear as there is, but grizzly
is bigger and can carry more 1eaG
without dying than any other animal
There was friend of mine b. name
O Tompkins in the Boulder Valley
had little summer stock ranch there
He had been bothered considerable
by bears coming among his stock
Finally they killed colt, and the
bear that killed it would come and
eat otf'n that colt every night The
rancher made up his mind he'd fix the
gentleman, SO he went to the nearest
town, told the boys about the bear,
and got him bottle of strychnine.
He got the Shurf and Tom, his Dep
uty, and Mat Ward, the Deestric'
Clerk, and they went home with him
to lay for that bear. Shurf of Silver
Cow county, Montana, mind you," as
If the statement was matter of rec
ord, s'and they all went home with
him"
Before dark they took a team and
hauled big load of hay up in about
thirty steps of the colts carcass. They
filed that carcass full of strychnine.
There was no trees around there
handy, and nothin' else that a man
could hide behind-all level open
bunch grass flat which Tompkins had
a sorter whiddledig fence round for
! pasture. They hauled the hay up
there to shoot from, of course.
''Long about the time when the
bear generally come---he made his
visits purity regular them four men,
some with double -barreled shotguns,
acaoa with riff a., 80. T--a>-~-l II IL 'a
o'hay and scrouged up close together
on the middle, for a big load of hay,
you know, as big as that was anywez,
is mighty shaky when you get on top
OF it.
"The carcass was out there in front |
of them, they had their guns all fixed |
for shootin', and the moon was shinin'
sorter like.
"'There comes hoss down the
gulch yonder,' whispered the Shurf.
"'That's HIM. That's the bear
said the rancher. Great glory, what
a big oner
The bear come on slow and stiddy,
takin' his time.
"They had the wind OHM, but when
he got to tho colt he see there was
somethin' wrong. So he walked
around to the wagon. The men was
breathin' awful low. They couldn't
see the grizzly, and was feared to
move les'n they might scare him. The
bear put his foot on the wagon and
gives it shake. Then he goes lack
to the carcass and begins eating
Hadn't somebody better give the
word?' some one whispered.
"' Better let him get his belly full
o medicine fust,' answered the Shurf.
s'That bear could turned that load
o hay over with one flip of his foot,
and them fellows knowe'di it.
He snatched off hind leg of the
colt, finished his meal, and went back
IN the woods, where he came from.
There was nary shot fired at him,
neither, and if the strychnine did
not agree with him they didn't find
aim out, for he was never seen after
ward. He never came back to that
lead colt, anywez, no more"
''We were taking band of wethers {
once-we had ten thousands in the /
oand-from Umatilla County, Oregon, g
Q Cheyenne" said a shepherd, who |
lad been listening, and now came to
he support of the last speaker, "and t
lad three men besides myself. each I
nan with dog. We had several t
lorses, guns and camping outfit, of Z
curse. t
''One hot day about noon the shoep Q
on us, and while they were q
wing in the shade we went down to v
be water to cook dinner. This was c
. the Blue Mountains, on the Mid a
le Fork of the John Day river, at v
ort Of horseshoe-bend about quar- P
ar of mile aronnd ibid not look G
ke white ms silar been there p
efore. - ~ sssas q
Some of TN vent in swim u
ling. and wda fhe river to ST