New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-04
MISS MIylEY'S STRANGE LODGEG.

There arr times Ike the present. when "lhc
- Louis Glohc- Democrat comes To us Ike
cool fountain in tic simoom-swcpt desert Our
ably edited aud cvcr-actiyc contemporary IS. 1t
Will he remembered, the official or@an of the
P.uc<y Western Girl. 1t IS in the columns OF
The Globe Democrat" that the Western GIRL ami
the Wild Peast meet, the latter beng slaughtered
and sui scquently torn limb from limb. Now. we
feel peculiar interest in the Western Girl, when
We believe is shared rs the community AT large,
$, il is not strange that The Gobc-Dcmocrat.
with It's BRIGHT rel page printed i'm laguarN blood
should be a welcome visitor in Inc Tribune Office.
Tie latest interesting case in the young woman
and wild beast lire THE Globe Democrat" finds
at Lewiston. Idaho. Miss Annie Mycy is lady
living at Lewiston. She is Il teacher in the high
school and is described rs young and pretty. She
has a brother living some five miles from town,
and near hi, place she herself has claim,
that 49, some Government land on which
she is MAKING mproyemcn and on which shc Is
supposed 10 be living. During a recent vacation
in the schools Miss MNlcy embraced thc oppor-
tunity 10 live on her claim. She had been visit
inc one DAY AZ h"r brothers, and rs il grew dark
went over 10 her own house, about a mile away.
This house is small affair, Of one room, and OF
the kind which Ia that RECON rcjoiccs IN the
name Of "shacl;." Wien Miss MNcy arrived nj
her home she went in ard lit small lamp and
sat down by The fireplace and READ for an hour
or 50. she then decided 10 retire. The bed
stood in one of the room and, after looking
under it for possible man, she sat down on the
front edge of IT, and BEGAN brushing her hair.
Miss MiNley, MS we sud, is pretty, her GROWING
beauty being Ter hair which is long, wayy and
in color n rich brown While thus engaged she
both heard and felt SLIGHT movement in the bed
behind her. 1t SO startled her that she caped
to her feet and dropped her hair on the lloor.
She recovered herself almost instantly however,
picked mp the hair and tossed it on the bureau
and turned her attention 10 the bed. She
horriiicd to see that apparently the man for whom
she had looked under the bed was really in the
bed entirely covered including his head with
the clothes. Her first idea was to scream, but
she thought better of II, adjusted her back hair
and somewhat s;crny ordered the intruder To
leave. What was her surprise when after consid-
cradle rolling about, two immense black paws
appeared above the lcd-cothcs and big black
bear sat bolt upright in the bed. Miss NiNley re-
treated 10 the other side Of the room in some alarm
She wished that she had not disturbed her
lodger, especially as she saw that he was making
preparations to set up happy thought sudden
~ occurred to her Years ago she had once heard
her father step tack in the night His scandal
Gus remarks the occasion, rs well as the graphic
language used by her mother in way of rebuke
were still fresh IN her memory Selling a paper of
large tacks she sprinklcd them in front of the bed.
The bear, after many awkward motions, got ont of
the bed, but he had no sooner set his foot the
floor than hc stepped tack and howlcd with
pain. He trled 10 walk and stepped on two others.
roarcd louder than ever and fell back over on the
bed where hc pulled out the taclls with Ills teeth
and rolled under the Clothes covered up his head
and went 10 sleep Miss MiNlcy waited twenty
minutes till he was snoring finely, when she took
a stout rope and made hanPmans moose. which
she placed around his neck. The other end of the
rope she threw over beam above and began to
pull down on il. This awoke the bear which