Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-23
GRIZZLIES OF IDAHO.
Tacit Agreement with Men In the Early
Days Not to Molest Each Other.


Days Not to Molest Each Other.
speaking of grizzly BEARS" said
Judge Henry I. Warren to a New York
Sun man, 1--WE didn't look on these an
lmals as particularly dangerous in
Idaho when I was the United States
district attorney of that territory. If
man attacked one at close quarters
he sometimes got killed, but at q lit
tie distance not much more attention
was paid to bears than if they had
been so many hogs or cattle. Between
human beings and the bears there
seemed to be at that time tucit
agreement to let one another alone.
"Onc of my hardest horseback trips
led me through n wild region where |
often saw bears. At one point the
trail crossed an open valley. d.ttc:l
with scattering big trees and clumr5ol
undcrbrush, and ON the further side
wound up steep mountain sid"
through thick oak and pine woods.
Coming down into that valley one dav
/ saw, little way of on my ri hit.
live bears, two very large ones anl
three smaller ones. c0n3tituti-,r p3S-
:ribly family part. They wcrr ram
ninT about here ani thrrN n,.:'i!,.! the
round, turning Over ;,r,.E arti l1"acll-
n:c to pieces rotten To-. hunting for
i:2c and grubs. T'lgy aDporcntly
=! 10 attention e ..' ;:.i rode past,
- hundred 49, ,.Irll;, away.
y hCr.:e locked; Il and tidr-
;rl :Drnc at the them but I
.cpt him in Tic I .f's,nt difficulty.
'ht another Tx. .: :l:ir gave me
ni:Si:!cruble IF Il care. l had just
...,I tIi.; same valley and was just
i. nrg To ascend the wooded
.':'''..H bcy",2l it. l had dismounted,
O.. was lcil,iing my horse up the steep
.iil'i.:H when IL bear broke out of the
,...".-" . little behind me and came for
- ji:ci":iily, showing her teeth and
r"'"liM.;. | stood still, expecting to
= f"r-. /" pieces the next moment,
i'HIn L:'c determined way in which she
'.i!lr--it was Il she bear-but she
.'."'! j!l::t short of seizing me and
:i:'"'ttD lash in the same way ut my
''r:Nr, arI 1T that dropped the bride
nd ma: MP the trail rs fast as could
20. My horse, instead of turning back
- run Tor life in the clear open ground
+ t:r& vullnT, when she charged at him,
- % Il dctnur up the hill and came
'aclt Oh the trail behind me- The bear,
o"lsing mighty ugly with her frothing
l"uth and bristlin.: hair, kept up her
tenonstrations, directing them princi-
ally at my horse You know how q
"rse. when thoroughly frightened,
ii! seek the company and protection
i humanity, and 3d. do all / could to
rive him away, my beast all the time
pit right behind me with his nose at
~ shoulder, trembling with fear, but
'.'fu%ing to leave inc, as the bear kept
aalIing dashes at us out of the bushes,
,,nCtimes from one side and sometime
from the other.
81 didn't know then what / have
learned from the habits of the animals
since, that the bear was running n bluff
on us and did not mean so much to
harm us as to scare us away. She un-
.loubtcdlv had cnlrG concealed close by
N the ullsneS and rcSortcd to a common
trick Of the female bear to drive away
!ntruders. Probably if had stood my
ground she would have tackled me and
III that case it would have been all up
with me. She followed us one hun
lred yards or so and then, seeming sat
isfied that she had got us fairly on the
run, fell back into the bushes and
watched us out of sight"