The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-10
TWO GREEN TOURISTS
How They Went Hul.ins In the Clear
WlteT.
THEY SHOT ONE WHOLE ELK
And the Stories Told About Their
Adventures Are astonishing
the Natives of the Old
Wolverine State.

MIssoULA, March 9.-Readers of the
STANDARD will probably recall an Incl
dent whIcn was related in these columns
last fall regarding two eastern men who
came out hero for a hunting trip in the.
Clearwat or and who decided not to take
with them the guide whom they had partly
engaged by correspondence because he
refused to be limited in rations to three
Jumps of sugar a day for his coffee. This
guide, who is one of the most experienced
men IN the Northwest. entered further OBJ
jections TO the plans made by these east
ern men in that they proposed TO get but
two horses for the trip. These were to
carry the packs and the men would travel
afoot. There was a difference OF opinion
as to other details in the arrangements
Tor tho "Trip and in the end, the tourists
engaged a man who is not a regular guide,
but who was willing to walk and who
could take them into the Clearwater
country. Two horses we're bought of q
Chin SO gardener, the animals hav-
Ing Ten discarded by the Mongolians
as unfit for work.
Tue party went into the Clearwater
country AL right and got out all right.
They saw one bear and one elk. The
bear they lost because they wouldn't let
the guide shoot and while they were dis
puting as to which one of them should do
the shooting, the bear ran away. The elk
was shot by the guide because IT was
absolutely necessary that the party have
something to eat and he wouldn't take
chances on the tourists hitting 1t.
The gentlemen returned TO their eastern
home and a recent number of the Detroit
Free Press contains an article written by
one of them IN description of the trip. 1t
Il
account of tho killing of that elk but
doesn't mention the bear that got away.
The Introductory paragraph states that
the party did not engage a professional
guide as they wanted to penetrate the
wilderness farther than these men take
their parties. How deep they did get may
be Judged from the fact that they saw two
Wild anlmals-the bear AMI the elk. The
elk was OF tho inferior variety known as
Esp ketale." .u.
But the writer of the Free Press article
says nothing about seeing the bear. The
elk takes up all the space. The story does
| not state who shot the elk, il simply says
"a bullet went tearing through his chest"
| And then the way that elk acted was
scandalous. After that bullet had torn
| through his chest, he went tearing all
over the country, over hills and down gull
/ lies. Preclplces counted Tor nothlng 10
HIM. He had no proper conception of
what is required of an elk after bullet
has torn through his chest. When the
| guide told about the elk here in town, he
said il was "spiketail," but wheu the
elk got into print, he acted worse than he
did when he was shot. He grew bigger
the farther he ran. If he had gone five
miles farther, he would have become
veritable mastodon gigantus. In the
story, he was, when he stopped running,
a magnificent, tawny creature, with huge
"wattles" under his chin and horns with
six feet spread.
Still the eastern press insists that there
| are bigger liars out hero than there are in
the East. They would probably explain
| this incident, however, by attributing the
elasticity of the returned hunters imagin-
| alton to the effect of the rare atmosphere
of the Clearwater mountains.