The Springdale news., 1889-08-02
TWO NARROW ESCAPES.
George Reese's Remarkable Ad-
 ventures With Grizzlies.

Among the earliest of the settlers in what is now known as Montana, was George Reese, of the Upper Yellow stone Valley, and after whom Reese creek received it's appellation. Reese migrated to that locality some time during the sos, and has lived there alone for over quarter of a century. most of tho time entirely isolated from any civilization. Those who are best acquaintel with this broad-chested and massive built bachelor pioneer assert that he belongs to q well-re- spected Eastern family, and that there is an interesting romance connected with his history, and that the cause of his removal to tho West arose from disappoiutments in love, his suit being rejected. Whether this is true or not we are not certain, although the hermit-like life he has led for so many years among the picturesque sOlitudes and far from any settlements and sur rounded by wild animals some of them very dangerous, would only serve as natural inference to establish this opinion. This has always been one of the greatest game regions of the Terri tory, and Reese has subsisted almost encounters with the wild animals, par ticularly with grizzlies, and two of his adventures with these latter he regards as intensely thrilling on account of his narrow escapes from death The
 writer of this article visited Reese at his rustic log cabin near the banks of the Yellowstone river, in the year 1882,
 when he related in backwoods dialect the accounts of these two singular ad- ventures.
 One day he had killed very large elk, and, after skinning the animal as usual he hung up the meat just back of his dwelling in a similar manner as
 butchers hang mp a beef or hog after it is dressed Being considerably ab- sorbed with his domestic affairs until late lie forgot the elk for time, and,
 finally, as the weather was cool, con cluded to let it remain hanging where it was over night. He had scarcely
 gone to bed, however, before he heard
 house. and close by where the elk was
 hanging. Concluding that his pony
 had gotten loose from where it had
 been picketed, and was interfering with
 the meat, he hastily dressed himself
 and rushed around the corner of the
 hut. thinking that he would. catch it or
 frighten 1t away His pony seemed '9
 be in the midst of the thicket, an(oe9o
 making considerable conmotior "'I"o"
 slipped through tho bushf' u '' ne
 straight up 10 the aniT' '' '' ct snap
 ,o.nba1 o,,4 hi--a-s.r- Ih lOud tone.
 .Istonishment the animal,
 %,l %,l' G+>Nl''1'tc e, savage growl, instantly L--..t '' ts head toward him, and would have caugl.. him in its open jaws had not the thick foliage of the bushes prevented. Reese rushed for the door way of his shanty on the opposite side of the building, in twinkling, with tho ''varmint'' in close pursuit, and he had barely time to close the aperture and make himself secure ere there was a fearf2l orc " iids ii cd s2. having or. thf outside. It was huge grizzly, and Reese actually ran against him in the darkness Said he: Il was skecred so badly that night that most feered I'd shake the shanty down from trenholm so. But got my gun and give that elk thief pretty turf shot, and he beilered wuss nor wild bull, and went off holler- in Yes, sir, stranger, it wuz nj on to lcetle the clussest call with grizzly that l ever know'd or had, 'cept one"
 How about the other time?n
 Wall, sir, l couldn't a give nary picayune for my life that time nuther. Twas just right up mung them sharp pints O mountins that you see wonder. Every thing he'd bin chawed up bout the shanty Didn't hev nary hate of a bite to eat. 'cept some tufT stuff that made my jaws awful tired. So jump cd astraddle of my cayuse and tuck rite straight of that path leadin' to that sort O coulee runnin' down, that you see over thar, stranger. Went a hull five miles foreI ever seed blessed thing to shoot at, fer game was all-fred skurce that day. and l couldn't find nuthin. Bind by 1 cum to a leetle low place atween the hills up thar, whar thar's plenty Q grass an water an l bounced off to size up the surroundin's all let the pony hev a bite. He'd him picketcd out full length of rope, an wuz busy knockin' roun' here an thar mung the grass an bushes ter see f | cudn't skeer out a deer. Didn't hev ! any luck at tall, so cum back an wuz a s.ttin' down chawin' away on my bite | O grub when all 'twunst 1 heerd Bus ter, that's tho cayuse, giv' neigh an | a snortl like, an he cum runnin towards | me sif sumthin' wus up, an when I tried to stop him he jist rushed past like a streak. an wudn't be ketched at all Wall, l didn't run arter him, but made up my min thet thar might be a bar, or somethin' else lo'fin' roun', an so slipped up towards a passel of bushes to fin out what in the Twin na- tur' the racket meant. About the fust l know'd hull gang Of big bars cum tarin' out of the bush and started lick etty-split, rite towards me. an hadn't even time to shoot, fur they WIZ cumin' in mighty big hurry. as zif a cyclone wuz pushin' 'em along. If stuck to my gun l know'd they'd ketch me, sc jist dropped the shootin' weepun and dug out fer life Ez luck wud hev it. thar wuz a pretty ia r-sized draw-dsh pine tree near by, So l made lightnin' tracks to reach it, and when l got thar I jumped and ketched hold of d projectin' linn and swung myself up in hurry, but the