The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-12-16
BE AIRS len YOSEMITE ]
NUMBERS RETURNING 70 THElH
Es5s ANCESTRAL HOME. ISs
Seem TO IRe Aware Of Their Immunity
From Death or Capture and Willing
to Be Friendly Toward the Humans
< That Have suppIanted Them. \

The. bear has come to his own again;
And, though his own comedies with a
cherished possession of the Unite.!
States government, says writer in
the San Francisco Chronicle, his bear.
ship is welcome and will not be mo
'ested. sE5sH@ ~ ~ @.,
The return of the bear to Yosemite
valley not only adds. interest, but it
also directly justifies the name of the
valley. Before the white man came,
says tradition, a young. brave, armed,
only with club, had conflict with
a monster grizzly under the Royal
| Arches. The battle was long and
fierce; the terrific claws and the crush
I ing hold of the giant bear were met
by the slender young hero with light.
| foot evasion, now to this side, now to
that, with AM occasional blow deliv.
cred with all the force of his strong
arms. Again and again he parted in
slant death, and struck at the dripping
jaws and the great skull, till at last
he gave the death blow and the snarl.
ing brute sunk ito the ground Then
he returned to the tepees of his tribe
/ and told of the deed. .#
His fellow tribesmen gave the hero
the name Yosemite (large grizzly
bear), and in the march of time his
descendants, the tribe, and their val
ley home took on the name.
Since then times have changed il
the high Sierran valley and with the
Indians who once dwelt between Yo
semite's stupendous walls went the
big game which shared with them
what nature gave to all her mountain
children. But last year there was q
recrudescence of bruin in the 70
semitic. Late in the fall two showed
themselves and one was trapped. The
other retreated shyly to the shadows
whence he came, but reappeared "a
times, uneasy, Sinking. to seek foot
of human production. This season thu
bear tribe seems to have returned il
earnest. All summer long two CHINA
mon bears have, .frequented the vicinj
ty Of Glacier point, making regular ex
plorations near the little hotel il
i, search of food.
A month ago camp, maintained
by a carpenter at work on Ell Capita1
bridge, was entered at night and dc
) spoiled Of various edibles suited t
, bruins appetite. With the advent o
autumn and especially since the heav
: storm the bears are leaving the highe
mountains and incidents have multi
I, piled. Tracks of single bears and of
bear with cub have frequently bee
found on the road at the foot of T
Captain and beyy of children out o.
a Saturday frolic on horseback j
that locality returned abruptly with a
l excited bear tale
Every few days Indians tell of sec
J ing one or more and few days ag
! three children going to school at moo
met a full-grown bear which turne
and, sitting up in a sociable fashion
looked at them in wide-eyed curiosity
Its tracks measured eight inches. TIL
same day five different persons say
. another bear ambling through the OF
} chard near the old Hutchings cabin i
> plain view of the village.
} The new Yosemite bears seem t
be aware of their immunity from fire
, arms within the national and stat
parks and are not in the least bellige,
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