The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-28

vacancy. He then reared IN. on hi4
hind feet and giaresd into the sfrnter-
- though he szv something. His
Jaws worked sysasrmodicaliy, and his
teeth eiaekei ike a shuttle: hood and
foam Few cut OF his mouth, his paws
sounded = tattoo on his dfstefldesI
stomach, while he kept Up 2 horrible
whining roar that seemed 70 come
from agay down.
The change has come. said seat
tie, IN loT voice, you're piping 81
a demon bear
There was something ia Seattle
Tom : voice as he spoke shaf caused
me % look sharply ct him. I had
never heard him speak in that tine
DetoFe- He WAS actually trembling
be, an old-t9zne mounsaineer. who had
fought Injuns with HI; Carson. anE
bad killed probably 50 grizzlies IN his
time. IL wasn't fear. / knew seattle
too well for that, and besides We were
up big tree.
II turned out 10 Be superstition
and then and there the man who b1.
bali an hour before had SPOKEN 50 con
hdenHy OF finding the lost mine in
fhe morning announced his intention
Of skipping out Of the Bears Pax
mountains 1T daylight for good. He
would never tell me lust what The
troueie was. except that all manner OF
bad luck happened after seeing 3 de-
mon grizzly
Meanwhile matters we're approach
ing tragic peint below. The ed
bear, new crazy a. q mad dog. struck
bee-line for the timber 1T hustling
pace, aud dashed full tilt against biz
tree. Striking out again he suddenly
stopped and ran round and round ia =
circle, mapping viciously right and
left. The other bear. stood out In the
timber locking On. The whole busi-
ness, fire, shack. and everything.
almost seemed to be an affair Of the
bears with Seattle and me outside
spectators merely.
Well, the demon bear kept caFing
around and caying round, and very
shortly he Topped into the fire. This
seemed ike n spark To a powder train.
Ten devils couldn't have ra he'd about
liyelier than he did, and he seemesl
bent on destroying everything. him
self included. in the quickest possible
time. Taking to a tree. and a good
big tree at that. was = mighty pert
move on our part After falling into
the fire, the demon grizzly would have
torn Us into shred- in a twinkling had
We been within reach. never saw
sucH q circus. and have seen a crazy
bull buffalo, running amuck through
an Indian camp. knocking sesees and
squaws right and left Old Eph seemed
to lit himself clear OF the ground, and
10 20 whiriing and crashing through
the air. He bit chunks out Of the trees,
tore great streaks in 'em with his
claws. turned somersault- fer ward
backward, sidewise. and, 20 il seemed
10 Us, forty ways at the same time
lie look ike ranting. roaring whirli-
Gig OF fury, gone stark, raying mad
this, in fact, Is exactly what he was.
lie rolled and Topped oft into the
timber, causing lively Settlement
among the other bears, who still kept
up the liveiiest interest in him At a
distance. After spell he eircled
round into the light again, and. with
horrible roar of rage that echoed
aud passed on down the guleh for
miles, made furious attack on the
fire.
81 Il he few, tooth and nail. seized
the flaming sticks with his teeth.
shaking them, fiinging them right and
iNAtf anu AtaHkAAlN AIE htlN VI AitE lEc
with his paws. II was an awful sight
In no time at all every hair was
burned or his body. and the sicken-
ing odor filed the gulch.
Lets shoot the poor devil says
/. "and put him ont Of his misery"
SHOOT a Demon cried Seattle. his
voice full Of superstitious awe: for
heavens sake, man, didn't you know
you'd be a raying maniac yourself By
this time tomorrow il you killed a
demon bearg'
had no faith in these old noun
taineer supcrstitions At that time. and
would have risked il anyhow; but Sc
attic took on so had 10 cave in and
watch old Eph fight II out 10 his own
destruction with the FIRE IL did not
take long: even demon grizzly has
his limits Of vitality, and this one had
expended more energy in the past
hour than a steam sasmill Twenty
minutes after lac started In to demolish
the fire he was dead and a-fecd.ng the
flames OF our campfire with his own
fat When we came to look for the
other grizzlies we found they bad 81
lepily stolen away. Seattle cqulin't
be induced 10 leave the tree til day
light, and then it was only 10 skip out
Tor Camp Cook "a lively as we knew
hoy. He's mighty chary about speak
ing OF the experience OF our second
and last night in the Lost Mine glilch.
and I doubt ii the richest mine in
Montana would tempt him into the
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