Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-02-10
4 BOGUS BEAR STORY.
Resale Of q Little Difference 81 opln,s.
Between Tive Farmers.

Between Tive Farmers.
.weli. yes, matters are pretty rough IN,
our way YETI admitted the old farm.
from Montana. '.Stlll we've made tolss
ably rapid advancement, too, all thine.
considered A large part Of the STAT
which, being outside OF the miniaR AZ.
trict. has long been considered worthles.
Il now devoted 10 farming and grazing
with the advent Of school houses arg
churches and such things the whole terri.
tory will assume new aspect. But iass
now every man looks out for number one
See that slash across my cheek heref That
was one OF the terms OF settlement of ais.
| suite about a number Of hogs owned by
neighbor Of mine couple Of years ACC,
| What did III a chunk OF lead.
| cit was this way: | planted about hale
INV farm to corn that year. Corn was M.
| tie more than an experimental crop ont
| there. and | took n great deal Of pains 4
give mine a fair show. Zeke Brown, Who's
| farm was next to mine. WINS also experi.
menting a little, although In another linz
| He was trying TO make hog raising nav
| He contended that old Montana was eoo5
/ for something besides mining and grazing
| and aided that II ! raised corn he Womb
raise hogs to eat it.
| "And be did. Matters moved alon.
smoothly enough until Browns shoats
were about two-thirds grown. Then every
blamed hog developed an appetite several
sizes too large for him, and Brown exper,.
enced difficulty In finding an adequate foosl
| supply. Finally In desperation, he turned
| the whole drove loose to root, hog or die
| and the porkers promptly invaded my corn
| fields. II took three OF us nearly half /.
day to get ihn~. hogs back home again
| Zeke OF course was surprised that hts lIv.
stock had hruken out. and was profuse In
| his apologies for the trouble they l.,i
| caused. But the next week the perform.
ance was permitted without the variation
OF a single feature. grew suspicious that
Neighbor Brown had devised scheme hv
which he hoped TO give his hogs mt least
one SQUARE meal a week. This In itself
was quite commendable, but when nv
corn was invaded for the third time sur
missed who was expected to stand the en-
pense OF the weekly banquets.
al didn't like to quarrel with ZeHe, but
felt that couldn't afford to have my agri.
cultural experiments interfered with even
to boom his So determined to study the
hog question little on my own account
After a good deal of hard work my men
and succeeded In cornering one Of the
ing to the house. The spring before ons
Of the boys had shot cub bear, and the
half tanned hide was nailed against shed
We tore the bearskin down and tied Il
upon the hog fastening IL securely. When
the job was ended that porker made a
pretty fair imitation Of a bear, and when
we turned the animal loose he made a bee
line for the corn fields to again join his com.
panions. Well, you know the bear il the
mortal enemy OF the hog tribe and there Il
nothing bruin likes better than fat, juicv
pig.
Perhaps you can imagine just what
sort OF reception that bogus bear received
The whole drove seemed to scent danger m
the air before he got near them. and sour
ricd out Of the corn fields squealing In ter.
ror The cause Of all the disturbance an.
parently was more excited than any of the
remainder OF the drove--as indeed be had
good cause 10 be--and as he was a good
runner the flight soon became veritabe
rout. IL was the queerest sight ever be-
held and expect never to see its equal
Imagine a drove Of hogs In a stampede,
snortinR, plunging. squealing and acting
as IL all the devils In that Biblical story &c.
tually possessed them. And In the midst
of il all a lean, bedraggled. iopsided bear
which half the time was ahead OF the bogsl
THAT porcine regiment swept through
Browns farm like cyclone and went tear
ing out OF sight In the distance 1t took
weeks to get the drove together again, and
when this had been accomplished several
were neither present nor accounted for. A
couple Of months later the government EN-
ployees In the Yellowstone park reported
the discovery OF several wild hogs In the
geyser region.
Somehow or other Brown charged his
losses TO my account. lie sent word by one
Of the boys that " he saw any more bears
around his place he proposed to shoot 'ein
at sight. ! understood what that meant.
and In the interest Of my health also loaded
Tor bear We met one night just at sunset
ON the old Yellowstone trail | saws him
first and sung out, Good evening. Zeke
Good evening. BILL
'As he spoke his arm few up, there was
a fash, a crashing report and the blood
was trickling from smarting furrow
across my cheek. You can nee the result of
that argument yet.
Brown Oh. I don't know anything
about him now. His oldest boy Is running
the farm, though, and he manages hogs n
great deal better than his father before
him did, Chicago Mail
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