Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27
TELLS OF YELLOWSTONE PARh.

p The following article which appeared
in the Washington Post will prove no less
instructive than interesting to our read
ers: Professor George l.. Henderson, ne
of Yellowstone National park fame, gave
one of his graphic talks on the Wonde
of Wonderland at 2 p. m. Friday, IN
Brent school, on Third street southeast,
Miss Grant principal. A more handsome
or we'll behaved crowd Of boys and girls
than those under Miss Grants charge 1t
would be hard to find. After giving
some account of the geography, geology
and botany of the park, with the chem-
istry of it's rocks and boiling lakes, the
professor described the wonders OF the
grand terraces, chemical basins, bollnS
lakes and S"team-aqueouS ana gaS-aque-
Gus, Of which there are many thousand
in Yellowston park. But nothing pleased
and amused the young philosophers
more than the stories of fishes, bear anu
elk, with which the professor closed ms
discourse. "A Mrs. Hobart and her son,
he said, went to the famous fishing
ground that lies between the waters OF
the Gardner and Boiling rivers. the
young fisherman having caught a fine
mountain trout in the Gardner threw his
line and trout in the Boiling river and lett
it in charge of his mother to cook, while
he went in search of another grasshopper
with which to bait his hook The mother,
in the meantime, having been more de-
voted to her book than to her hook, the
lad discovered to his grief, on Withdraw!
ing his line that the flesh had dropped or
and had tloated away, leaving nothing
but a skeleton dangling at the end OF his
line.
"A man named Lapham once occupied
a tent situated midway between Mann
moth Hot Springs and Norris Geysar
basin for the pufpOSe of furnishing am
ners to men teaming between those
points. Occupying his tent one night
alone and unarmed, he was awakened
by the sneezing and scratching of some
nocturnal ~wanderer. Looking through a
rent in the nva to his CONSERVATION
he beheld two black bears seeking an en-
trance, evidently attracted by the smell
Of fresh meat. He Immediately climbed
the center pole of his tent, and, cutting
his way through the canVa with his
pocket knife, secured what he supposed
was a safe position on the limb to which
the pole was attached. Stretching his
neck to get a glimpse of his enemies, the
limb gave way and he was suddenly pre-
cipitated from his perch and landed
squarely on top of the largest bear, 1T
was hard to say said Lapham, which
was the most frightened, myself or the
BEARS At all events, with a grunt of
surprise and fear the bears disappeared
in the forest, leaving Lapham master Of
the situation.
o another OCCASION" the professor
said, he was conducting a Mr.. Gilpin
through the park; not he Of the famous
ride but Nh. Jabez Gilpin of Leeds,
England. English fashion, he vas find
ing fault and growing with things gen
orally, especially that in a ride of Is
miles he had seen nothing larger than
a chlpmunk or a squirrel. At the head
of Willow park they were eating a lunch,
while the horses, with nOsebags on their
heads, We're eating their lunch of oats.
one OF the animals soon began to mani
fest considerable uneasiness, paving the
ground and tossing his nosebag.
What can all the bcast?' said nv
companion.
perhaps he smells some wild animal
I replied, for he is always quick to per-
ceive their presence
"JabeZ started to his feet, casting a
rapid glance over the open park, sur
rounded on either side by dense forests.
Great God! We are l0stn he cried.
See, there is a monster, making straight
for u.s.
Il saw that his face had become neal ly
as white as the bosom of his shirt, and
| was not entirely happy myself, for the
invader was one of the largest cinnamon
bears. To get off the nosebags, put on
the brides and get away as fast as W.
could was the first impulse that animate
us both. Just as We We're about to nouns
the carriage we observed that the bear
which had evidently seen us for the
l. first time, came to a sudden standstill
and was deliberately examining us fol
, some seconds, then, to our great 10Y, he
1 turned tail and plunged again into the
l forest.
i How geysers are named he illustrated
by the following story: Four ladies were
5 conducted by him in 1884 to the margin
2 of a boiling lake called the Four Sisters
1 1t was in reality one lake that narrowed
and Onpnp1 q p9in at hrna y1non- T.
l each of these sisters there was a gas.
e aqueous geyser that erupted in a success.
l sion Of explosions like that of Chimes
= crackers or a ~well-snapped Whip. The
most active of these geysers was situ.
= ated near the south margin of the largest
sister. The ladies stood close by admir-.
!, ing the lake, with it's beautifully orna.
/. mented and highly colored convulset
f border, the rim of which rose three o.
| four inches above the water.
t THE ladies were suddenly startled b,
, a succession of explosions, as the sub.
: terranean gases arose like a blush fam,
as large as a palm leaf. Soon the lax,
o was a SETTLING caldron, being torn int
T shreds and tatters as the superheatet
globes burst hither and thither will
- rapidity and deafening noise that pre-
vented all conversation. Astonished an,
! frightened, the ladies fell back to a safe,
distance, and when this ~gas-aqueous
pyrotechnic display terminated afte,
= about two minutes and a half, one of th,
ladies, wiping the steam from her glasses
U said:
+ "'Well, well 1 should say this was tn,
clown of the geysers!
Another said: 1T is a splendid kicker
anyway!
"a third one added. 1T is a Mug
wumpl'
And so ar anonymous geyser wa.
e named, and has since been crystalizef