The Forrest City times., 1893-09-08
THE MOUNTAIN KING.
Terrible Ferocity of the Bald-Face
 Bear.
He Is Monarch of the acknowledgements and Fatal Encounter with an Animal More Dreaded han the Grizzly
 An Unheeded Warning.

There yet remain in the United States but two great game preserves wide sections of country, rough noun tains, broad tablelands and forests al- most impenetrabie where the native denizens of a century ago still range without fear of the hunters rifle. The enterprise of sportsmen and the cupid ity of pot hunters have ill great measure pursued to the death the small game of the country. Coupled with the march of civilization and the vigorous pursuit of the larger animals of the wilderness they have been driven to the deeper and more inaccessible re- treats, until the remnant of the many monsters which once roamed the plains and inhabited the wilds are found in the Olympia mountains in western Washington and the Sawtooth noun tains in northern Idaho, says the San Francisco Call.
 These Idaho mountains are in reality spur of the great range of the Rockies, which extend like vast but tresscs across the entire middle west ern front of the United States. In many places the Sawtooth range is in- expressibly rugged and there are stretches and depths which have never been explored by any human being. In these vast wilds are to be found the most dangerous animal of which there is any record in this country, an ami nal which as far outranks the dreaded grizzly as that monarch does the com paratively little brown bear. whose chief mission is to frighten children ln- doors after dark and catch an occasion al straving shoat. This animal is the bald-faced bear He is emphatically a royal edition of the grizzly, has all the tenacitv of life and is not only abso- lutely fearless, but consistently aggres- sive.
 The "bald-face" owes his distinctive title to face which is white. He is larger than the grizzly. Beginning above his eyes several inches, the dark color of his body fades into dirty gray, thence down to the point of his nose and on either side it becomes pure white. Hence the name "bald-face.
 The grizzly will never run from man. It WILL move OH ilS SOuloC iAOluNhsAy after it sights him; when wounded 1t will pursue the hunter for reasonable distance, and when bodily hurt it some times gives up the fray and beats re- treat. Herein lies the dangerous diff ference between the two species.
 Pioneers and settlers of Idaho who are acquainted with the habits of this bear. which is not found, so far as can learn or ever heard, in any other part of the United States, never think of attacking him. They never hunt the bald-face for the reasons given. To begin an engagement with him is to simply mean fight to the death.
 shall never forget an experience had with one of these animals. It was in 1892. In company with three other young men, had gone into the Saw tooth mountains to hunt big game, deer. bear and such like. We had been told of the bald-face, but having had no experience with him, and having two grizzlies to our credit, our party smiled increduously when Joe Penning- ton, an old hunter and trapper who had of late years devoted himself to