Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-11-30
A WILD MAN.
Two Glasgow Hunters Who Bear No Ke-
semblance to George Washington.

Two Glasgow Hunters Who Bear No Re-
semblance to George Washington.
One of the most thrilling adventures
that ever froze the marrow in human
bones was experienced by Lee Cook and
Mac Hunter while out deer hunting on
the Ninth point Of the Missouri river
this week.
That section of the country is as wild
and barbaric as when the bloodthirsty
Sioux roamed over it thirty years ago.
Civilizations magnetic hand has never
robbed it of its wildness.
The sun had just sunk into his bed of
glory and twilight was coming on as
they were returning On their horses
through the dense underbrush. A loud
unearthly cry rang in their ears and the
horses, terrified, almost leaped from IN
der them. Directly in front Of them,
not ten feet distant, a man just as free
from clothing rs war Adam before he
donned the tig-leaf, sprung and bounded
away with the fieetness of an antelope.
AS soon as they recovered from the
start his yell and appearance implanted
in them, they put spurs to their horses
and a mad chase ensued. Over holes
that made wells look like slight undu-
lations the man leaped and the horses
followed hot after him. Up hills and
down over cut banks and through dia-
mond willows that seemed impenetrable
the chase went on. Despite the fleetness
Of the horses, the riders were unable to
lessen the distance. Several times did
they attempt to rope him, but the thick
ness of the brush made their attempts
futile.
After a race of five miles the pursued
rushed over tho bank leading to the
river and, without checking his speed,
jumped into the muddy and t%reacherous
waters OF the river. He swan with tho
ease and grace OF a water fowl. This
checked, his pursusrs watched him until
he reached the opposite bank OF the
river and disappeared from view. In
describing the man, Cook said:
"Dantes, in lmagination's most dys-
peptic and melancholy moments, never
conceived of Satan being so hideous and
grotesque an object. His body was per
fectly nude, with not so mnch as a
b%reachcloth to hide his shame. Hair
long enough to go into the plasterer's
mortar hung from his body in matted
lunches. Whiekers and hair with him
were more plentiful than the moss on
the trees at the equator. Easeau, in all
his Observation-Disclosures, would have &C
%knowledgcd he was as bald as a marble
compared with him. The hair was also
white over his body. His finger nails
resembled the claws OF some carniverous
animal. Ills eyes were almost obscurcd
by his heavy eyebrows and shot forth
the CLEAN Of a tiger at bay
About two years g one of the old
timers living on the Missouri says he saw
a man running through the brush. His
description Of him is similar to that OF
Mr.. Cooks. Where the man came from
is a mystery, From the description it is
judged that he has beer running through
the forests for IA number OF years. 1t is
supposed he subsists on herbs and the
carcasses of dead animals, but this is
mere conjecture.
G party is now being organized to
capture him, and il they are successful
the dime museums OF the country will be
revived by this strange creature.-Val!oy
County Gazette.