The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1904-12-23
BEARS IN YOSEMITE
NUMBERS RETURNING TO THE.l
ANCESTRAL HOME.
Seem to Be Aware of Their lnnmunit
From Death or Capture and Willir.
to Be Friendly Toward the Human
That Have supplanted Them.

| The bear has come to his own agai.
And, though his own COMEDIES wi,h
cherished possession Of the Unite
States government, says a writer l.
| The San Francisco Chronicle, his beal
ship is welcome and will not be NC
ested
| The return of the bear to Yosemite
valley not only adds interest, but
also directly justifies the name OF tn,
valley. Before the white man came
says tradition, young brave, arme
only with club, had conflict witt
monster grizzly under the Roya
Arches. The battle was long ane
fierce; the terrific claws and the crush
ing hold of the giant bear were me
by the slender young hero with light
foot evasion, now to this side, now tc
| that, with an occasional blow delv-
| 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 smart
| ing brute sunk to 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 Qarge 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 in
| 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 a
| semitic. Late in the fall two showed
| themselves and one was trapped. The
other retreated shyly to the shadows
| whence he came, but reappeared al
| times, uneasy, Sinking, to seek food
of human production. This season the
bear tribe seems to have returned il
| earnest. All summer long two CHINA
| mon bears have frequented the vicirj
| ty of Glacier point, making regular eX
| plorations near the little hotel in
| search of food.
| A month ago a camp, maintained
| by carpenter at work on Ell Capitar
| bridge, was entered at night and de
! spoiled of various edibles suited t(
| bruins appetite. With the advent O
| autumn and especially since the heavy
| storm, the bears are leaving the higher
mountains and incidents have multi
piled. Tracks of single bears and of (;
bear with cub have frequently beer
found on the road at the foot of E
| Captain and bevy of children out OF
| Saturday frolic on horseback il
that locality returned abruptly with al
excited bear tale.
Every few days Indians tell of see
| ing one or more and a few days ago
three children going to school at nool
met a full grown bear, which turned
md sitting up in sociable fashion
looked at them in wide-eyed curiosity
Its tracks measured eight inches. TIL,
same day five different persons saw
another bear ambling through the or
chard near the old Hutchings cabin il
| plain view of the village.
The new Yosemite bears seem tt
be aware of their immunity from fire
arms within the national and state
| parks and are not in the least belliger
| ant