, 1900-06-27
THROUGH THE PARK
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY T. F.
BURKE RETURNS FROM THE
YELLOWSTONE.
Tells a Cheyenne Reporter of Many
Interesting Sights-How the Tour
lists See the Bears Feed-Scenery Is
Grand-Judge Medium Welcomes
the Visitors.

Hon. T. F. Burke and wife have re-
turned from a very interesting visit in
Yellowstone park, says the Cheyenne
Leader.
They left Cheyenne on the nth, IN
tering the park from the north and
coming out at the west. On account Of
the long drive at the west, Mr.. Burke
says he would enter that way and come
| out at the north if he were to make the
trip again.
The object of the attorneys visit was
to represent the United States in the
case Of the United States VS.. ]. Y.
Whitman and James Courtney, charged
with having shot six elk within the
park limits last December. The men,
who were defended by a Montana law
yer, were found guilty, and were lined
by Judge Medium $500 each and half
the costs.
For this season of the year, which
is quite early, there are a large number
of visitors, including ex-President Har-
.rison, whom Mr.. Burke observed eating
lunch at one of the hotels.
The Cheyenne gentleman noted par
ticularly the great interest that those
with whom he came in contact, took in
the wild animals of the park. They are
as eager to see and observe them as
they are to enjoy the magnificent seen
cry of the park.
The guests who expect to find tame
animals are generally disappointed. OF
course they are not as wild as they
would he if they were hunted and mo-
Tested, but it is the instinct of the ami
nal to secrete himself and it requires
some watchfulness to get to see them.
The party that Mr.. and Mrs. Burke were
in saw cranes, wild geese. pelicans.
and wolves in the drive through the
park.
At the three hotels, the Fountain, the
Lake and the Canon, they are in the
habit of feeding the bears with the
refuse, which is dumped zeal the edge
of the woods.
The animals will resent any moles-
tation and do not differ from wild an
finals, generally, in regard to their re-
lations with man. Recently an en-
ploye of the park attempted to catch
n cub. 1t was in the dusk of evening
and he spied his cub. The mother bear
spied the mar and chased him several
blocks.
The method resorted to to see the
bears is quite ludicrous. The refuse
from the Canon hotel is dumped in a
valley back of the hotel made by two
hills. At the top of the furthermost
hill rises the dense forest, in which the
bears make their home.
The guests creep on hands and
(! knees up through the dense sage brush
which covers the first hill. When they
reach the top, if they have been very
quiet, they see the bears coming out of
the woods beyond and running down
the hill to get the leavings from the
hotel. This affords the visitors capital
opportunity to see the bears and m
times as the enthusiastic spectators
creep through the brush on their hands
and knees, the Righteousness of the sit
uation strikes them and they explode
with laughter, and friAten the bears,
who are seen taking their departure
over the furthermost hill and the visi-
tors are compelled to wait a long time
for their temperance.
THE scenery say Mr.. Burke, "is
beyond the power of description and Of
course is familiar to many who have
visited the park
Visitors to the park are treated with
courtesy and consideration. The hotels
are first class IN every respect as are
the stage lines.
Judge Medium is in the best of
health and extends the genial courteous
welcome for which he is well known.
He is filling a very important Office,
maintaining the enforcement Of the
laws which protect the attractions of
the resort and no feature is more i'm
portant than the protection of game,
as the interest of the hundreds of Wis
itors is centered as much in the game
as the scenery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burke had a very pleas
ant visit and seem benefited by the
trip.