Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
GRIZZLIES OF IDAHO.
A.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 New York
 Sun man, we didn't look on these an- | imals as particularly dangerous in
 Idaho when I was the United States | district attorney of that territory. If | a man attacked one at close quarters ! he sometimes got killed, but at a 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 a tacit agreement to let one another alone. "One of my hardest horseback trips led me through wild region where I often saw bears. At one point the trail crossed an open valley, dotted with scattering big trees and clumps of underbrush, and on the further side wound up a steep mountain side through thick oak and pine woods. Coming down into that valley one day l saw, little way off on my right, live bears, two very large ones and three smaller ones, constituting pos slbly family party. They were run ming about here and there nosing the ground, turning over stones and knock ing to pieces rotten logs, hunting for mice and grubs. They apparently paid no attention to me as I rode past, one hundred and fifty yards away. My horse looked a little wild and fidp- eted some at the sight of them, but I kept him in the trail without difficulty.
 At another time bear gave me considerable of a scare. I had inst crossed this same valley and was just beginning to ascend the wooded heights beyond it. I had dismounted. and was leading my horse up the steep hillside when bear broke out of the bushes little behind me and came for me furiously, showing her teeth and growing. 1 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 me and turned to dash in the same way at my horse, and at that I dropped the bridle and made up the trail as fast as could go. My horse, instead of turning back to run for life in the clear open ground of the valley, when she charged at him, made detour up the hill and came back on the trail behind me. The bear, looking mighty ugly with her frothing mouth and bristling hair, kept up her demonstrations, directing them princi- pally at my horse. You know how a horse, when thoroughly frightened, will seek the company and protection of humanity, and so, do all I could to drive him away, my beast all the time kept right behind me with his nose at my shoulder, trembling with fear, but to leave me, as the bear kept making dashes at us out of the bushes, sometimes from one side and sometimes from the other.
 II didn't know then what I have learned from the habits of the animals since, that the bear was running bluff on us and did not mean so much to harm us as to scare us away. She un- dOubtedly had cubs concealed close by Tn the bushes and reSorted to common trick of the female bear to 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 one hun- dred 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"