The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-03
BEARS MET UP YUKON WAY
THE KLoNDIKE KING TELLS OF An
EXCITING INCIDENT ON THE TRAIL.


Anything on tho Traii-A lively Chase.
"Talkin' Of bear"
The Klondlke King paused neditatiyoly and
the group on the hotel porch hftched their
chairs up closer
"Talkin' Of bear" he went on: now up in
the northern country there II various kinds
On the Little Pelly. for instance. they come
down that thick 70 feed on the salmon In the
summer time that you can't get Indian or
white to 70 higher than q days travel 10 the
place. And up In the Rampant Mountains
there's q curious kind Of bear called the
'sids-hill grizzly That's because he's
travelled on the side hills ever since tho food.
and the two legs on the down-hill side is
twice as LONG % the two on the uphill. And
he can out-run q iack-rabbit whsn he gets
steam up DanRerousp Catch you3 Bless
you, no. All man has TODD In circle down the
hill and run the other way. You see. that
throws mister bears hong legs up the hill and
the short ones down. Yes. he's q mikhty Pc
cuIinr creature. but that WASH what started
in to tell about.
They've Rot;another kind Of bear up on the
Yukon, and his legs IL all right. too. Heb eallsd
the baid-face grizzly. and he's as big M he is
bad. It's only fool white man Chat thinks OF
goin' huutin' him. Indtan's get too much
hoss-sense. But there's ono thing about the
baid-face that man has to learn: he mover
gives trail to mortal creature. II you SOC him
comm. and you value your skin. why. got out
OF his path. II you don't. there's bound TO be
trouble. II the bald-fnco met Bselzsbub he'd
not give him an inch. 0 he's q selfish beeear,
take my word for It. But had to learn all
this. Didn't know anything about boar when
I went into the country. excepting when was
q younEster I'd seen heap OF cinnsmons of
that little. black kind. And thsy was nsthin'
to be scared at
We'll after we'd rot settled down on our
claim. went up the hill one day. lookin' for .
likely piece OF birch to make an axe handle for
the one my pardnerd troke. But II was pretty
hard to find the right kind. and kept aeoin'
and agoin' for nigh on two hours. Wasn't In
no hurry 10 make my choice. you see, for Twas
headin' down to The Forks all the time. whore
was Eotn' to borrow a loG-bit from Old Joe
Gee. When started I'd put couple of sour
dough biscuits and some sow-beity in my
pocket in case 1 might GET hungry. And I'm
tellin' you that little lunch came in right handy
before was done with it.
'Bime-by hit upon the likeliest little birch
sapiin' right in the middle Of a clump, Of Jack
pine. Just as raised my hand axe happened
to cast my eyes down tho hill. There was big
bear comm up. swingin' along ON all fours
right in my direction. It was bald-face. but
little knew about such kind
Jest watch me scare him. says to my
self, and stayed out OF sight in tho trees.
We'll. waited till he was about hundred
feet of. then 1 runs out into the open.
Ooh! oohP holiered at him, expectin'
him to make OF like chain lightning.
Make on? He Jest throwed mp his head for
one good look and came comm
Oohl oohi hollered louder,n ever. But
he Jest came comm.
Conssrn your says to myself. gettin' mad.
III m axe you jump the TRAIL
30 1 grabs my hat and wavin' and boI-
lerin'. starts down the hill to meet him. big
sugar Pima had went down In a winSifall and
lay about breast-high. stops lest behind r.
old bald-face comm all tho time. It was jest
then that fear took me. I yelled like a
Comanche as he raised to come over the log.
and fired my hat full in his face. Then M
put.
Sayl rounded the end OF that log and mt
nown the hill at two-minute clip, old bald.
acc reachin' for me at every jump At the
bottom was a broad. open nat. quarter of a
mile TO timber and full OF Niger heads.
NEW II slipped was gonsr. but hit only
he high places till you couldn't a-ssen nv
rail for smoke. And the old devil snortine hot
iter me- Midway across he reached for me.
est str1kin' the heel Of my moccasin with bia
law. Tell you was doin' some tall Ruessin'
est about then. knew he had the wind ~
ne. and that could never make the brush. 40
pulled my little lunch out Of my pocket and
ropped 1t on the fly
Never looked looked back till atruol the
imber and then he was mounting IL In n vav
' men wasn't nice to sec. considerin' how close
ed been to me. 1 never stacked up No.
If! jest Kept hittin' the trail for all there
'as IN me. But lest as came round bend.
eh-bent for election. what'd SEQ in thelmid-
lie OF the trail before me and comm nv
ray. but Another bald-face
"hoofP he says when he spotted me, and
% came runnin'.
In flash was about and hfttin' the back
rail twice as fast as I'd como Clean forDot
IL about the other bald-facs. the way this ono
'as punin' after me. First thing knoysY
sen him mosyinG along kind of easy, wonder
most likely what'd become Of mo and ifI
isted as good as my lunch. sayl when be
cen me he looked real pleased. And than he
anne jumpin' for me.
So Whoofl' he says
Whoofl' says the ore behind ma
Bang goes. straight OF the trail sidevnvr
.piung1n, and a-clawin' through tho brush
10 Wild bull. By that time I was clean
'azed Thought the whole country was tulj Of
Aia-iaces. Next thing I knows-whopi
,mes up against something in q tanrIe Of
, u o'ackoerry bushes. Then that something
ald-face! And then I knew VA. ~ons g..
Ire. But I made up my mind TO die esme
I'd OF all the rampin' and roarin' and riupin.
I'd tearn' you ever see. that was the worst
my Godl my wifsP It says AndY
oked and it was a man was hammerin, fnto
ngdom como.
Thought you was = bear saysL
He kind OF caught his breath and lookas "A
.. then he says. Same hsrs.'
- RAam ad m thn,,.h Ia
Ad-faee and hid in the blaekberrieu. SothatS
w We mistook each ether. But By thnk t1r.a
. raeke on tho trail Twas something horrielo.
ID We didn't wait to explain matters, That
tern Don We got Joe Gee and some rifles and
me back loaded for bs&r. Mebbs you WON'T
heve me- but when wsNEot to ths spot there
Is the TWO baid-faees lynn dead Yon noa.
hen l Jumped out sideways thSy came b..
Their. and as each refused to give traIIto ~.
her. that was the result