Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-24

naO IunnE experience once, said
| w. T. Custer. pastor Of the NJ. E.
church, the other day. 1T was some
nine years ago when I was pastor at
Anaconda, Mont. We were in the habit
Of going out along the eastern slope of
the Bitter Root mountains in Septem-
| Der. hunting big game.
There were four OF us this time.
| One was tailor, one a painter and
the other clerk in store. They
| were all tenderfeet and we We're in the
neighborhood where Roosevelt tells of
two trappers who years ago had a most
marvellous experience. You will read
the account In the closing chapter Of
| one OF his books on hunting the griz-
ely.
1.-TWO trappers came up there into
! basin near which we camped when
| we were there. They set their traps.
leaving their horses behind in the val
ley. They fxed up their leanto. and
went to set their traps. When they re-
turned their lean.to. all their belong
ings had been literally torn to pieces
and scattered all over the ground.
"They knew not what It could have
been that did the work. They saw
tracks that looked like those Of a big
bear, but Ill shaped. That night one
Of them lay awake and after midnight
uC SCCANCO tuc oNIOu8 OuOF VI u DcdT.
Looking out from under his lean to he
saw the outlines Of a monster bear
Showing his gun out. he took deliberate
aim and fired. There was no noise but
the animal vanished. The next night
about o'clock they saw him on the
other side OF the gulch. walking back
and forth and grooming from time to
time, but he did not attack them.
The Hunter Who Never Returned.
THE next day they concluded to
leave that region. and pulling up stakes
they agreed to go down the canyon,
gathering up their traps and 60 back
to the horses in the valley and leave
the region. While going down to-
gether they felt that something was
following them. for they heard brush
crack from time to time, but never
could get sight OF the beast
"They separated two miles from
where they were to camp, one going
along a stream to the right, the other
to the left; one was to reach the camp
half an hour ahead OF the other. When
the last one came in sight OF the camp
ing place he supposed he would find
his chum and fire with a meal ready.
| But no fire and no companion. He
came to log near where they always
built their fire and there lay his part :
ner dead. with his neck broken and
marks OF bear jumping about in high
glee all about it.
He saw at once how the tragedy
| took place. and so overcome was he
| that he hastily covered him with
| brush wood and left for other parts at
once.
Roosevelt evidently believed this
story as he gives II as a real fact in
his book.
Not far from where we camped the
! first week. good hunter had been
| killed by grizzly. He saw some will
low bushes moving down near the
creek mile from home. and took his
rifle, telling his wife that he would try
to get bear. But he did not come
back. The next day a neighbor with
two friends took up the matter and
they found the hunter near the willows,
| where he saw the bushes moving with
his neck broken and bitten through by
four big teeth and his broken gun was
| lying about 20 feet distant with a
cartridge in the magazine that had
been fired.
Tho Luxury Of a Mountain Breakfast.
THAT is a region where one can live
| like a king. You camp in August near
the foothills. where huckleberries are
| plentiful and deer are near; get up
early In the evening: let one of the
boys go out with gallon pail and fill
that with big fresh huckleberries right
from the refrigerator OF the night. cool
and crisp: another OF the boys goes 10
the creek near by and returns with a
dozen fresh speckled beauties Of the
Dollay Warden variety. and while these
are browning In the frying pan I'm the
cool invgoratine air Of the morning
| fresh biscuits are about done. Pure
cream, purchased from the rancher be-