Evening star., 1898-03-05
A YARN FOR HUNTERS,

Stories of Game Raised a Man From
His Death Ded.
from the Chicago Record.
DR.. Trabish, with his instruments and
his little bottles of powders and liquids
usually made the Hoback basin region once
month. When he approached the shack
of the Archers on this November day he
felt some msgivings. for everything seemed
SO still and quiet. Mrs. Archer opened the
door to him and answered his query Of
greeting in a sorrowful voice.
Il don't understand why he shouldn't
have quite recovered by this time" said the
doctor. Did you give him the drops regu-
larly?"
Yes: but a bear come''
"A bear? WHAT
First day after you left Lias was lyin'
there what you call speechless, an un-
un-''
Unconscious Yes. he was pretty low
He was lyin' there, when Ben Giddings
come in an told about seem bear up
near the timber line. Next 1 knowed LAS
had his gun down an was streakn' up the
mountain half dressed. Said no bear was
gcin to take advantage of his bein' sick
an come foolin' round the house that
sassy: He got the bear. but three men had
to hold him in bed on account of his crazi-
ness for five days"
Naturally, with such exposure
he q Just about come to his sense. when
Ashcroft. who come down to set up with
hlm, told me about seein' elk tracks by the
cr1ck. Ashcroft spoke soft an low an
didn't mean no harm, but Lias heard him
IN his sleep and riZ up an throwed bed
clothes all over the house; knocked Ash
croIt down an pushed me away as easy
as though 1 was some kind of a thing on
hinges. Then he got that gun an went
out on a run. Had just his shirt on
Good land! Why, that was enough to
Kill him, with snow eight inches deep"
AT least a foot deep. Ashcroft an three
He'd followed that elk over nigh the Te-
tons. He was plumb dead when they brune
him back, but the elk was dead. too
What! Lias dead? I thought
He was dead then, but he come to next
day an went out of his head agin an then
stretched out, an We all thought he was
really gone. The boys come to watch with
him an plan his funeral an whilst they
was was Ii ,alkln Ed Groby said Harvey Wade
mad told some one who had told him that
seven mountain sheep had been noticed up
nigh the tip of the Thumb, sixteen miles
away They amt been no mountain sheen
,i,ta ,iish tnese parts for ten years. A hunter
like Lias is-a man so set heart an soul
would foller mountain sheep fer hundreds
of miles, NN'
..!r, a know They are great game"
Groby said them words there come a kind
OF qulVer OF LiaS' body an he opened his
eyes an looked around 1 knowed what
was comm an run fer the rifle But he
was too quick 'Womanr he yelled at me.
don't set yerself agin me with a chanst
at mountain sneep He had the rifle an
was OUTSIDE an a mile away, guess. afore
them scared men knowed what was up.
he vas gone three days. They brung him
lone yistiddy. There he is in there"
The doctor went into the other room of
Ine shack and looked at the thin wasted
form before him. He looked at the most
notable Of all the Teton and Hoback hunt
ers. lie looked at the man whose fame
extended from the Wind River mountains
to Pocatello. He looked, however. at
man who was dying
Lias, can you hear me?' he inquired.
gently. GU
The patient smiled back a weak recogni-
ton. e'i
why on earth did you act SO foolish? I
thought you'd be well by this time. If you
hadn't exposed yourself So
"A nlm seemed to gather over the ewes of
the mountain man. Then came his last
strength. He rose in bed and gasped.
DOC, them mountain sheep horns meas
ure twenty-five inches Amt another pair
IKE 'em ever been took in these parts.
hit him right above"
Then he fell back dead