The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-17
BRUINS NERVE GOING.
Tourists in Yellowstone Park
Brighten the Poor Beasts With
Their Kodaks.
rakinr His Photograph Has An
noyed Him and Will Ruin
His Digestion.
ome Passing Notes on Uncle Sans Great
Menagerie and its OncsWAd
Doni8ens.

Menagerie and its Once Wild
Dsnisens
Recently q representative of the st. Louis
Republic, wandering through the west, tar
lied bv the way in the Yellowstone Ma
'ional Park. Everyone knows all about
he wonders of this region. They have
cen exploited time and again in newspa-
Sers and in magazines. There are lew,
oweyer. who realize what magnlhcent
tsma nreserye is this reservation to-day.
The Yellowstone park is the great ma
;onal rnenaperie. All the money expended
y the government in shatterinR mountain
ides and hewing forests. for the better
ropress of the tourists, might be counted
wise investment were the only tangible
eturn manifest in the innumerable bands
wild animals which roam unmolested
hroueh the hills. From the newly ad-
Omitted states on the north, FROM beyond
he continental divide, from the Businesses
the Rockies on all hands, the elk
nd the antelope, the bear and the black
all deer seek refuge in the one western re-
ion where the roar of the rifle is never
card.
It was all very we'll for Noah to admit two
kind to the shelter of his ark. Fire
rms were unknown in those days, and the
rites released on Ararat we're given a
nance to propagate. To-day in these
Initial States the danger line for the ami
bals in the park is the boundary liked BY
be government engineers. Noah measured
is ark by cubits, and the dumb brutes IN
is diluvian collection were meant 70 stock
Fonal menagerie by square miles, and
1ouoh in these prosaic days no divine hand
irects to the secluded hills the painting
eer and the hard-pressed buffalo, instinct
,rves them as q guide. u,
Rarnum can boast no longer. The gov
rnment controls the greatest snow on
arth.'' It's countless acres are canopaeo
6ntinals against the constituencies invader.
ina onlv band of bufaloes in the whole
nnntrv have here found the protection
sawhere denied them. The cavalrymen
Eationed at Camp Sheridan and near the
PIPER Geyser Basin, variously estlma ate
heir number at from seventy-hve TO 2OO
cad. and they are slowly put surely N.
ratified by sight Of them. Their home is
The hills, q good days ride to tae south
the beaten tack taken by travellers. But
na deer has lost its fear of man, the elks
merge from their retreats amid the rocks
hal even the cowardly coyote prlcks MS
hrs and gazes almost bravely at the passing
age. The writer rode within thirty 1eet
ar;ously. contemptuously turned her back,
rowsed a bit among the bushes and then
Gifted TRANQUILITY away. Only one with
,urder in his heart would have harmed her.
The bears arouse ones sympathy. There
re- thousands of them. Across the Grand
.nyon and almost within sight OF the notel
.ey wander by the dozen. They are
louphtful bears, and in the daytime they
sep we'll within their own domain..the
aadows of the painless pine woods. Even
le tourist who goes around insulting ma
ire by dwelling his little kodak at the
,nyon very much as If one should try to
xetch the continent from balloon has
,urists are selfish. Sometimes they will
ander from the hotel after nightfall
bowling about in search Of moonlight
fects, A listener, with ears alert, may
resently hear q sound as OfRreat confusion
the brush. Immediately the SOUND
,parates into distinct disturbances, the
reater oommotion gradually dying away
,ore significant. This means that the bear
nd the tourist have met, that each has
cen equally frightened and precipitate in
is retreat. and that the man with kodoh
ill very soon appear with face SO pale
lat he can spin thrilling yarn about hlt
dventure without blushing.
Something ought to be done to protect
less bears, else frequent encounters will
lake them nervous and interfere with thei1
igestion, when they may even become dan.
srous. The porter at the Upper Geyse1
asin hotel has during the summer gradu'
lily lured big black bear to the edge o.
,e woods by feeding him each day will
sfuse meat. The big fellow has become sc
,me that the guests of the hotel go dowr
,urists approach within fifty feet and an
oy him by swapping their cameras. Occa
onally two or three other bears, less tame
ppear and keep at a discreet distance II
le background.
As intimated, the tourists are jarrin1
ruins nerves. While the writer was at thu
rand Canyon hotel, Clifford Putnam, o.
ous bears. Mr.. Putnam is musical com
oser, and on the particular night in cues
on was seeking inspiration for piano
arrangement for Beethoven's "Kreutze
onata.o He ventured to the edge of tn
anyon, and was about to return when
nnamon bear, suffering intensely IRON
ervous prostration, rose on his hind Leg
Uu6 pbUu duu y0WACu OAoVACooSAAys AHA'
ear had doubtless been goaded to desper'
Jon by thoughtless tourists, for the yawl
ave way to q growl, and the shaggy brut'
ropped on all tours. An instant later
,litary pedestrian had been transformed
twinking to vigrons Splinter, and tn
lies told by travellers were that evening
Augmented by veracious bear story TO
tiich the writer can vouch.
At Norris Geyser Basin is to be seen do
atted by visitors and regarded curiousl
br his exceeding ugliness. He is the of
bring of she bear and Newfoundlan,
90, very shaggy and awkward looking
hi most affectionate until provoked, whe!
becomes ferocious.
Bears are not uncommon sights through
II the northwest. In the mountain vii
oes big cubs roam like dogs through tn
reefs. and no first-class hotel is quit
omplete without bruin at the end OF char
the back yard.
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