Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-24
HE GRIZZLIES OF IDAHO.
A Tacit Agreement With Men I'm the Early
Days Not To Modest Each other.

A Tacit Agreement With Men In the Early
Days Not To Modest Each other.
Speaking of grizzly BEARS" said
Judge Henry /. Warren of Albuquerque,
1--WE didn't look on these animals as
particularly dangerous in Idaho when
was the United States district attorney
of that territory. If a man attacked ono
at close quarters. he sometimes got kill
ed, but at little distance not much
more attention was paid Co bears than IL
they had been SO many hogs or cattle.
Between human beings and the bears
there seemed TO be at that time a tacit
agreement 20 let one another alone.
lone of my hardest horseback trips
led me through a wild region where
often saw bears At one point tho trail
crossed al open valley, dotted with scat
tcring big trees and clumps of under
brush, and on the farther side wound
up steep mountain side through thick
oak anil piuo woods. Coming down into
that valley one day 1 saw, a littlo way
off on my right, five bears-two very
large ones and three smaller ones-con-
stituting possibly family party. They
were running about here and there nos
ing the ground, turning over stones and
knocking TO pieces rotten logs hunting
for mice and grubs. They apparently
paid no attention to me as 1 rode past,
$50 yards away My horse looked n lit
tie wild and fidgeted some at the sight
of them, but kept him in the trail
without difficulty.
"At another time a bear gave mo
considerable Of scare. 1 had crossed
~ Il
to ascend the wooded heights beyond it.
had dismounted and was leading my
horse up the steep hillside when bear
broke out of the bushes a little behind
me and came for me furiously, showing
her teeth and growing. / stood still,
expecting TO be torn TO pieces the next
moment from the determined way In
which she came-it was a she bear
but she stopped just short of seizing mo
and turned to dash in the same way at
my horse, and at that 1 dropped tho
bride and made up tho trail as fast as
I could go. My horse, instead Of turning
back TO run for life in tho clear open
ground of the valley, when she charged
at him, made detour up the hill and
came back on the trail behind me- Tho
bear, looking mighty ugly with her
frothing mouth and bristling hair, kept
up her demonstrations, directing them
principally at my horse. You know how
horse, when thoroughly frightened,
will seek the company and protection
of humanity, and so, do all 1 could TO
drive him away, my beast all the time
kept right behind me- with his nose at
my shoulder, trembling with fear, but
refusing 20 leave me, as the bear kept
making dashos at us out Of tho bushes,
sometimes from ono side and sometimes
from the other.
81 didn't know then what 1 have
learned from the habits of the animals
since-that the bear was running a
bluff on us and did not mean 50 much to
harm us as TO scare Us away. She I'M
doubtedly had cubs concealed close by
in the bushes and resorted 20 a common
trick Of the female bear 10 drive away
intruders. Probably if | had stood my
ground she would have tackled me, and
in that case it would have been all up
with me. She followed us 100 yards or
so, and then seeming satisfied that she
had got us fairly on the run fell back
into the bushes and watched us out of
Eight. New York Sun.