The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-15
Of a Chinese Laundry by . Pet
Bear In the Early Morn
Ing.
ALSO Gets Into a Gambling Els
|tablishment and Breaks UP
tho Game.
lilly tho Cub II Loft In = saloon, Where
Ho Drinks All tho Beer
In Sight.

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Alder street about three o'clock yester-
morning, says the Portland Oregonian.
blu attracted the attention Of d reporter
his WAY home. Talk about the fun
Fded by q box Of monkeys. it is deep
pm and %solemnity compared to what a
! cub on q lark can furnish.
saloon-keeper on Third street has n pet
about four or five months old, which he
ps chained in his back yard. In a joke
tole a favorite dog from another saloons
per on Alder street and pawnsd 1t with .
Id saloon man for $1.6O worth Of drinks.
owner OF the dog had to pay the bill
pre- he could get the favorite back, and
let even he induced a man to steal the
! and pawn it atshis saloon for drinks
the crowd, amounting to $3.50. The
: was secured late Thursday evening
chained in the back yard Of the Alder
bet saloon. Feeling like a cat in a strange
ret, the young bear began climbing the
ls, smashing the windows, scratching the
ht off the doors and raising cain gener-
N, till at last, about $3.50 yesterday morn
the saloon man sent for the person who
\ stolen the bear and begged him to take
brute away. He would wipe the $2.bO
drinks off the slate and treat the crowd,
bnly he could get rid of the bear.
md so ii happened that as the reporter
j passing the corner of Third and Alder
three O'Clock he saw the man with the
kr coming down Alder street. A big New
midland dog, which had been loafng
Iund the corner, when he saw the cub,
! his tail between his legs and started on
rot up Third street, looking back from
he to time in a scared manner. When
! bear got near enough he grabbed the re-
Eter by the leg and endeavored, by the aid
teeth and claws, to climb him, but was
kken off. He then tried to climb a tele-
hph pole which was cased with galvanized
N. He would leap mp as far as he could
b grasp the pole, but his claws would not
Id on the iron, and down he would come.
h failure seemed to surprise and ~irritate
En. and he leaped up and slid down that
lie in o manner that would make a horse
Etgh.
kfter he tired of this the procession
bved on and coming to a laundry where
|out a dozen Cinnamon were at work
bning, the bear made a sudden dart for
b door. jerking the chain out of the hand
his keeper and plunging in among the
|re-skinned Cinnamon, rattling his chain
pund tables and chairs in his endeavors
make himself sociable. The scene which
|scribed SO as to give any idea of it's ludi-
BUSINESS. The Cinnamon leaped up on
y tables and ironing boards, shouting
|th terror and brandishing their hot fiat
bns, their queues flew up to the ceiling,
Ia as the bear tried to be neighborly and
Il up on the tables, they jumped around
antically and yelled like lost spirits.
he party who were travelling with the bear
shed in and after laughing till they were
.od, captured the animal and dragged him
{, and comparative quiet was restored,
1t those Chinese laundrymen will have a
account to settle with the paper devil,
hich is to be burned in n few weeks.
The bear and his escorts moved on down
der street to Second, where the bear met
10 Cinnamon and attempted to climb up
lder one fellows blouse. The other one
cared the width of the street at two
funds and the shouts of the pair brought
,zens of jabbering heads to windows, and
10 whole neighborhood was beginning to
Il inter ested. Then the bear saw q door
open and heard the rattle of dice
a brnss bowl inside and made a break
to the room where half a dozen China
we're amusing themselves gambling.
bound into a chair enabled him at the
,xt leap to land on the table among the
gamblers. who fled in wild dismav,
I'd the bear after knocking tho bowl, dice
I'd coin all over the room, followed one Of
70 fugitives out on the sidewalk and up a
next door. Down a hall he fol-
we'd the flying and terror-stricken gam
er and up another staircase into the third
DRY, his chain rafting against the corners
I'd ratings in a hilarious manner After
10 bear rushed his distracted keeper and
din and uproara and shouting and squall-
z which filled that building threw any
ling mentioned in Dante's Inferno into
10 shade
After much trouble the bear was secured,
I'd with profuse apologies for his miscon-
act, dragged away. After going around
le corner, and taking a much-needed rest,
10 bear and his party strolled down to
ront street, and finding q saloon open
was decided that the bear should be left
lere and word sent to it's owner to fetch
i'm away in the morning. No sooner had
10 party entered the snloon than the bear
ado for q small tub sitting under the
lucet Of a beer key in which there was
most q quart of swipes. which he pro-
,eded to drink in a hurried manner. All
forts to get him away were futile; he
the tub with his paws and teeth
I'D howled like n demon, and never let 20
II the last drop of beer had been swnl-
wed and the inside of the tub carefully
cked. Then he was tied up to tho iron
filings around a stove, and amused hinselt
V opening the door and draught, paving
1T the ashes and breaking off the orna-
lents, till the beer began to operate. Then
would stand up on his hind legs and fal!
yer like a drunken man and roll around the
DOR, and the saloon man wanted him taken
way, but his keeper did not know where te
IKE him any more, and the party slid ou,
nd disappeared, and never want to know