The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-12
TEDDY HAS A RIVAL
IN "BOOZY Bob
Denver News

tDenVeT NeWS.1
Robert Deillzer, known all over the
western slope as Booty Bob of BuZzard
creek. hunter and E'trapper of the
Plateau valley, does not expect to enjoy
another night OF peaceful sleep until
death itself shall mantle the terrible Wis
ions that nightly haunt his rude cabin in
the mountains.
A fortnight ago Bob Deiker was the
happiest man in Colorado He had suffi-
cient stores in his cabin on Buzzard creek
south OF Debeque, to last until spring. As
a guide he had earned from city hunters
enough money to keep his jug we'll stock
ed An occasional buck picked from the
nerds would not be missed by the game
Wardens and would Keep him in meat.
What more did the gTiZzled tTapper need
to make him happy? ~
But now a roughly improvised sling car
RES BOO S crippled arm, his body is lac
Grated with gashes and nightly he starts
from bed of pain a hundred times. it
seems. TO fight TO death in hand-tO-hand
encounter with the largest and fiercest
mountain lion that ever bounded over
Colorado mountains. The wounded arm
and the painful dreams are the result of
Boozy BObs hair-raising encounter
with a mountain lion ten days ago
one day last week Booty Bob turn
ed up in Debeque after many weeks alb
sence he brought in pack of skins
and after painting the little town a sun
set nue. started out the following morn
ING with a new jug of the best whisky
the mountain town afforded. BY the
time he reached his cabin on BuZZard
creek he was just right for brush with
the t1ercest animal that ever walked on
TOUR less. 1t was close to dusk, how
ever, so in the dismal trapper's cabin he
spent the night, making merry with the
contents of the new jug. In the morn
ing the celebration was renewed. and in
joyous spirits Bob shOuldered his gun
and set out after game.
His quest was early rewarded. for soon
ne struck the tracks of a huge mountain
lion, but the size OF the footprints did not
deter the hilarious and intrepid hunter
He followed the trail for about a mile
W1en 0TOWElnpgG mo nd Sf+
ting upon ledge of rocks soon was fast
asleep.
1t must have been several hours. writes
a western slope correspondent who re-
ported the story, before Bob awOke with
a start Not a dozen feet away. crouch
ing on the rock above him, was the lion,
flashing its tail and preparing to spring
There wasn't time to think. In such
moments second seem centuries. Every
encounter of d score of years flashed
IKE lighting through the trapper's mind
Selling his knife intuitiyeIy from his belt
ne prepared to fight for his life, just as
the lion, startled by the sudden move
ment OF the man, sprang AS the two
bodies met the tTapper struck the lion a
blow, but 1t failed to reach vital part,
ana with a roar the beast planted
his teeth in the right arm of its victim
BOD SAID ne thought it was ali up with
nim' the correspondent writes, but he
IS a pIucky fellow, and fought with as
much ferceness as the animal. With his
lett hand he again clutched the knife and
StEucK anOther blow, this time driving
the blade to the lions vitaIs The two
rolled over and down the rocks in deaths
embrace the lion all the time tearing at
the trapper's buckskin clothes and lac
Grating his flesh. Finally the death grip
was shaken off and the hunter managed
to drag himself away"
The correspondent relates that tho
wounded trapper crawled to his cabin
after hours of painful exertiOn and fell
exhausted on his rude bed That night a
cowboy CHANGED to pass and discovered
tne trapper unconscious. Quickly the
limp body was lifted into the saddle and
the ride made 10 the nearest ranch at
the Junction of BuZZard and Plateau
creeks. Before a doctor could arrive
from Colibran Bob had been revived and
careful dressing of his wounds and the
administering Of powerful restoratfves
revived the trapper 50 that he could re-
late his story
But every night until the correspondent
sent out his story, visions haunted the
sleep of the wounded man and the
crouching form of the enraged lion an
pears nightly in his disturbed dreams.