The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25

over the mountains OF
N- california old Grizzly has Killed
nor. ,r forty years. Nearly nan d ~'il-
bear 1,- vowed never TO eat any meat
j-'- ,- meat never 10 live i'm mouse
'- ID. sneak TO man ana never 10
80 qrorrcr drop OF spirits. w men ne
--- communicate he does u by writing
slate he carries tied around MS
Winter and summer he WanGefS
-r. H4Is avoiding the chance pros
and the miners and the hunters.
.. ..., VOW against wOmauknd, and
.-r.+f. talk 10 the Eeutler sex He
N.'. frf-nrr4u. once a year ne comes
y - Sonora sells his bear hides, buys
" one suit e clothes "hlou Lis atiC ,
t.--sff and his small supply OF bedIt7 ana
H'l.. rrr.r Ha goes on To- the next town,
.r-rrBfa and stays all HlSnt az tue
,9.-' If his wife iu the quaint old min
~ arryiuE ground WneIe many d ma
,-- IN with bis short shTltt and a
r.r.. and the good priests nut on
a-fr.uH 0HIg May COD nave mercy
ut5 -ruI" and the only name they
t.r the wHudeTeT. Before any one
a.-.frrfur Old Grizzly. whose other name
- f..rr been forgotten goes back 20 ms
-.r... wandering. hunting his enemy.
nar + found him, an old man with
r rsrs black hair and alert blue
s-.- stopped but strong. ana glad 70 eN-
f.rrae Few words with fellow human
lr.st- .rf-L am a bit cracked.
=.- know whether it's me that's crack
r rH.n. When "a man talks iHr forty
..-- -a The stars at night and tne. nils
J. tU. a..- time he comes to know Things
.Esr nr doesn't talk about anyway, /
l.-av. i'm getting to be better man
A...-r rirl ~ anv one and J amt wasted
at.- . ..--. r...raInE around and talking or I
lg-arr got drunk for forty years, and
-r4r f- saying good deal
Grizzly's Story.
.ra been fu town that day. u was
,r..-.. .-.fE and D didn't look forward with
- o.. r..f#.a- home five miles in the snow
all. me wind blowing rip saws 10 was
-.. r..r after the drought. and there
hadn't u..u amy mast, and the bears ard
..5la Hue- came right up 20 the houses t.
.t f4uH and were 50 fierce they would
et.r ANY one Some had been killed
Ir fH.m when the snow came deep, lor
,E -a va- nothing much for the bears to
l.r 81. wife never did like il over there
t.--.rr sonora She was dead afraid OF
,r ,..rrvth hing The rattIeTs and In
#gre and Wild things that got out Ia
rrs hills ana h0il0red half the night.
There was only the kid With her, and q
MS. r1 go g.. town and hang around every
c-.ur- got. and ia hardly ever take
k-r because a woman is I'm the way.
s.WBpu 1 came riding up the road indL
riadr ! see that there was no light IN
fHl house. but II was pretty late ana,
.rfrE- shes gone to bed There was
.'. big fireplace. and the FIRE lighted uD
! GOOD deal. but Z wondered when [ got
,.7r enough and see the door was open.
3 rrskg3 i'm quiet like and in the corner
. -sg mv wife and somebody with her
-Hrrin- 1u the floor. SO that's what
vag.r- up. is it, I says; you see I was
rH. aruarIe-t eUSS that ever got licked,
went I'm and ! heard "a queer sound, and
Ta.u ! was just going to fire off my gun
when / heard "a growl. and I saw it
,,g-f-t q man on the hO0r but q bis
grizzly He groWIcd low ana looked at
T5 and kept his ugly head rolling, and
fr.u Hr tried go sneak out behind me,
lrr Dr. didn't make a 80 0f il, for ] got
him. He was 700 heavy with eating to
I'm or fight. and il WaS warm in the room
u picked my wife Up and she just
as.-red her eyes. and she smiled In my
fa.e and said. low like 'Tommie.' and
rnen she gave ii ~hiVeT and shut her eyes,
and She hasn't ever said anything since,
rar ANYTHING at all I knew there was no
r-,F looking for the kid.
Only Bears.
ct have been killing bears ever since
and I'm going 10 kill them as long as
ever live. J have no call against any
MIrg else i'm the world, but the bears
and me viii never be quits. They know