The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-20

nicely sewed together upon this founda-
ton aud then stick on q pair OF horns
fraud to some duIse in short psl1r<r fof
zoe, and make him think he was geta
ting q bargain at that
Well finally all the game ia the coun-
~ was killed on, and We saw that some
thing had 70 b done. sfhe sufferers got
others left for newer locations. and long
toward The end only a few of Us were
Wen. one day there rolled into the vii
iage female from New England. She
naa money IN the bank, and was looking
get her the finest bear skin the country
Croesus could afford. She took me. up
.a I aianv have a bear hide q any Dc,
Scrlption, Kind, sort or variety, and
didn't know where 1 could get one we
nad sod the years crop OF the whole
region reg 70 a bunch of excarsionfsts who
had passed through a couple OF months
However. 1 set out, and thoroughly
raked Rawlins from TOP to- bottom but
without success The hest / could do was
skin owned BY an old Fellow living over
bear epiderr1us have eyeF seen 1sf
particular bruin must have suffered nor
f tii, wi,n r1atlse before he mst an IN
uHletg end There wasn't a hair on the
whole hide, With The exception of the
tSoas hn e PAYS pay se hg rest e i locked as
razor. The head and paws. though. We're
bully-great long hair and in 5000 con-
dition. After found that IL was that
hide or none l set my tfinlxins, eS;tlss
% bGzzing. and soon worked up a mag
nificent idea. - =
confldence. unfolded the scheme and we
sci 70 work He owned a few head az
Ny COW, one OF the Kind with long black
mar. We sneakeda ont of town With the
oid bear skin in a sack. and rounding az,
We cured the skin as well As rf,ssfbls Is
the short time we had and then sevved
"a tenderfootl it5 looked exactly like 4 bear
skin. and a big one. too. Then we Hylssl
the SKIN with aElafeid quilt 10 hide the
marched up to the wofnan's hotsi ana
displayed our hapdiWork She was de-
5 s; ed, IA, and .tsasAed us effusyely atsc
Afew days after she left for san Fran
cisco with me hide. and, as We after-
with great pride, saying ii was fr5m II
iafseSr and most terrible grizzly ever
I. sss IN NNyosilirg The friends admired
it Win cue enti1usias m, and NOBODY. .ap-
parently, suspected thes fake until some /.
curious cr1tter1 IN eH;snaihing it .diseoy
cred q brand on the left Hank Then
thtre WAS the devil to pay, and the old
&lrl nearly went INTO a decline WORRYING
aoouS 5ae way IN which she had been |
ridiclleaof her friends the sarne7 VIII, had
az first examined the hide and pro-
H' 11is ~. 2 .y3ezy Inc specimen
psing up was rfb-reasting letter from /
my customer. Welich, after giving ne "a
tong raking over -cfcsets with the query
Are YOU IN the habit of branding sears /
IN yotfr country ~lllisl = ~ II j
W ell, TO finish this narrative OF life in |
the Tar ana csfzIle 2k5f]-Tidden west L fell 4
real mean over the AFFAIR To set myself 4
rlsht, atso soothe- her Arufilesd feelings T /
wrote 70 ner about as follows:
MY Dear sAIadam--Y Your unjust and 1
Y acailed-tor arra1gnrlent Of me was duly 1
received through the malt Much az il :
pains me 20 contTadict asiady;sJ must \
pes 70 dlsasree with You when you say I
am 9 sv1ndlfr ana black-heartsd Wiz i
ans SOMEBODY has deceived You in SAX II
ing tnat YOU do NOT possess the skin Of n +
genuine RockS mountain erizzfyslE This, L
$ etement IS coneius3vely .Tefute.I by. the /
Claws and head. of the animal which the l
most pre1uclced must admit could nay 81, Z.
uitVe grown rpcn q cox. In regard to II
: - ~ - u our uerS. Are We in the 4
ltcit Of branding bears IN THIS countrS = -
e p pertinent one. We are Theirs are
more men eilan bears about Raw Inns mi i
Al the men want bsars. Therefore we =
9rand al bears else how could we ideffti-
" Our own property
hoping this explanation IS as satfs- !
slctory 70 yoat as 4ss is to me- I ren1af5f
ii0 QI2t,, uitg yours, w II. ROOT =
! WILD Animal PSoeurer Bear. hides a
Specizlfss 49, 49,
! tee. tetter was never answered,