The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-15
IN ARIZONA.
THE USUAL WEEKLY BUDGET
FROM THE FAMOUS KICKER.
The Editor Attends Mountain Outing
And Gets in an Argument With a
Grizzly Bear-Therefore the
Paper is Two Days Late.

Grizzly Bear-Theref0re the
Paper is Two Days Late.
AN EDITORIAL OUTING.-We must
beg the indulgence of our readers
this week for issuing the Kicker two
days late and for the woefui lack of
editorial and local matters. Last
Saturday we had an invit alton 60
join a party of campers on Bill Will
liams mountain, and our family doc
tor looked at our editorial tongue
and advised us to accept. We found
the party pleasantly located at an
altitude of 2,7S4 feet above the sea-
There were five gentleman from Gin
cinnati, a poet from st. Louis and
an artist from Chicago. On the
morning of the second day we set
out to show the artist grand cliff
which he proposed to transfer to
canvas, and the poet went along in
hopes to catch a happy inspiration.
The three of Us had nearly reached
the cliff when we suddenly eneoun-
tered grizzly bear who was out for
business. The surprise was mutual
but the pleasure seemed to be all
on one side. The artist disappeared
among the rocks to the right and
poet among the brush to the left,
and for 60 seconds we were left fac
ing old Ephriam with dim con
seriousness something was about to
happen.
For the benefit of such of our read
ers as haven't studied natural histo.
ry, we will state that the grizzly
bear is an animal about the size of q
Queen Anne cottage and appears to
have veranda built all around him
to improve his style of architecture.
He differs from an elephant in hav-
ing teeth about foot long, and on
one hearing his claws rafting on the
rocks could mistake him for buffa-
10 bull. Way back, before Christie
pher Columbus discovered America,
something happened to make the
grizzly bear mad at all mankind,
and this feeling has descended down
to the latest edition. That bear not
only got his dander up inside of 10
seconds, but it wasn't half a minute
before he had fully made up his
mind that we were his mutton
When he moved for us we moved for
a tree. We beat him by few sec
onds. We never had any particu
lar business dealings with a grizzly
bear before, but it struck us that we
couldn't move too rapidly nor climb
too high. When we recovered con
seriousness we were seated on the
limb of tree 20 feet above the
earth, and the bear was looking up
at US with an expression of curiosi-
ty and disappointment. At some
stage of the game he may have run
across an Arizona editor who had
failed in business and committed
suicide, but we don't believe he had
ever seen live one before He had
counted on a sure thing and got left,
and for some minutes his ehagrin
was plainly apparent. We supposed
as matter of course, that after real
izing the situation the critter would
start off with an ambition to pick up
the artist or the poet, but he wanted
editorial meat and was willing to
wait for it. 1t was ten o'clock in
the morning when he freed us. We
were there at high noon, at shutdown,
at day next morning. The bear
staid right by us. and we staid right
by the bear. There was but little
romance in the situation for US, and
we couldn't say that the bear ap-
peared to take solid comfort. We
had never seen anything in natural
history about man up tree in Ar
iona and grizzly waiting for him
to drop into a red mounted cavern
ornamented with ivory spikes and
could only give rough guess as to
how long the situation would con
tinue to be strained. We were
somewhat troubled with insomania,
but so was the bear, and this latter
fact was something of consolation.
We had to keep awake to maintain
our hold on the limb. and he had to
do the same thing so as not to miss
us in case we came off the perch.
About midnight large and we'll
kept mountain lion discovered our
situation and came down on us with
many pleasant anticipations, and we
almost felt sorry for him when he
made out the true state of affairs.
The grizzly selfshly refused to
whack up on his "find," and after
squandering an hour of his valuable
time the lion went off toward the
camp to see if he couldn't pick up
something good on his own account.
We couldn't 90 to the gentlemen in
camp, and they searched in the
wrong direction to locate us. After
we had been perched in the tree 26
hours, most of the time looking the
bear full in the face, we began to no
tice change of expression. An hour
later he closed his jaws, gave us a
long lingering look of contempt and
ambled off to strike something that
couldn't climb. The gentlemen
were profuse in their apologies when
we reached camp, but we tarried on
ly long enough to put the saddle on
our mule We were in hurry to
see the doctor who had discovered
from the fur on our tongue that un.
less we put two full weeks on the
mountain we would be liable to a
fall stroke OF apoplexy. We rode