The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09
TWO GRIZZLIES IN A DAY
Eruin in Close Qunrters-surprise That
Followed Dash Into Chfneapihs
After n Grizzly That Had Mate.

After n Grizzly That Had "A Mate.
| In a country where bear can be still
J hunted" successfully there is no sport
quite so delightful, or any that gives the
hunter such opportunities for displaying
SO much skill and science. One who
has never hunted big game west of the
Rocky Mountains would never under
stand the Indifference with which back
tailed deer, or even bull elk, are passed
by, so long as there is even a remote
possibility of getting shot at a bear
The sense of danger always connected
with bear hunting only serves to add to
its fascination, and becomes quite SUI
coordinate to the thought OF glory ana
satisfaction that one experiences When
standing over the slain quarry.
My last experience with this KIND OF
game was an exciting one our party
left the railroad at Grants Pass and,
after a two days travel with pack
mules, we pitched our camp on the
western flank of the Cascades, in
broken forest of kingly sugar pines
which lowered sublimely rom every
ridge and canon in the range. We had
come in after bear and success had ex-
ceeded both authorization and provision
50 far FRAT orr supplv Of chemicals for
curing the hides was exhausted, and we
were now left with four choice skins
suffering from lack or either alum or
arsenic The skins were fat and oily.
and their on1v salvation Law in frequent
granting and rubbing well with salt.
Their condition made it urgent that
we should HE to the nearest settlement
that boosted drue, store as soon az
nossib,e Rut termination that few
snortsn7en could Withstand presented
itself. While returning to canop the
dav before our intended departure he'd
discovered the fresh tracks of a large
grizzly and the nresAnc. so dietu bed
NV mind tbat nars,1aded nv comnan-
ions ia remain over another day so
conId hunt him
Knowinp fun wei, that erizzIv is q
tireless and enternrising traveller
made an early start tho nest ,rorniro
After nicl<ing NV way for about two
miles IN tba nrcerta,n Iiybt of tho eto,s
climbed the side Of steep mountain
inst as dawn was breaking. peerinp.
eagerly in every direction could dis
cover nothing that the most vivid imap-
nation could coniure into n boar. New
ertbeless I found much else of inter
ia observe nc who viii NOT on euch
morning in such n co,1ntrvq
Fo1lowino a woIl-ds fno1 game t,oi, IA
the east heaame "a intent in reodirc
tbn tracks of difraran+ wild animoIs
same trail that almost forgot tbe ona
whose huge footnrints had 90 lat.lv
aroused nv curiosity and driven ali
sleep from NV ewes. Whom the first
rays of the SIM came nourln, down fla
canon noodirp tho vbo1a laraso,na
with their nenetratine lipbt thew eud-
denly revealed to NV vieilant eye tho
dark forms If two hears about civ bnn-
dre1 wards further down tbe sor,e
ridge on which stood Thev vera mar
over tbe divide T.ool-irr
still more carefrllv q hundred vards
further m tbe mountain T oou1a discer,
the outlines of another and laroer hear
as he sauntered awIswar3Iv acroea a
small Glade.
He was MAILING his wov toward
growth Of chjncanins which extsndaI
far nm the maintain growing thiclzast
and lareeet in tho ,,oiet sbo1o,vy cor
n PC amid a, unheeva1 of n,,rr1ieb oro,,
bo,,lders Eaoerlv T watched hin, nc he
rrararrd IA mol,e bis brn,l,fast ~ 49,
mite which nature had nrovided with
srch q lavish hand Tho, dr,nniner
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hushes AGAINST ,n, o,,araiIs ana +ol1in, \
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