The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
SNAKE RIVER IS
ANGLERS PARADISE
United States Senator and the
Game Warden Have a
Little Pleasantly.
GRIZZLIES IN THE PARK
BECOME TOO FAMILIAR
Bears Loot Camps and Tourists
Flee Hurriedly for
Protection.
Specinl to The Tribune,


days ago and "cussed' @ United States
Senator till he (the game warden) was
black in the face with rage, The Sena-
tor, clad In full suit of union over
alls, stood in the stream and laughed
till he got red in the face. Then he got
a bite, mixed IL up with a big three
FOUNDER and ended by walking up the
bank with his trophy. Then, when Mr..
Game Warden saw who his proposed
quarry was he turned pale under the
gills and hit the pike for pleasanter
spots. The warden Is one Robert Osborn,
who keeps a hunting lodge on the Snake
in Island park twenty-five miles from
this city. The Senator is known as plain
Fred" by his fishing companions, but In
the legislative hall at Washington II ls
Senator Dubois.
Cause Of the Friction.
The trouble grew out of q little
friction between Osborn and neighbor,
Roy Porter, who also keeps a hunting
and fishing resort on the river named
Osborn does not like to see Porter, who
is n later conner than himself to these
parts, doing SO we'll, and he puts In part
OF his time patroling the river banks and
"shooing" Porter's guests OF some five
acres OF land which he has fenced in and
now claims to own. Osborn made the
bluff that the Senator was trespasslng,
but the nonchalant manner of the Sena-
tor carried the day, and Osborn will walt
TO mako arrests with some less we'll
posted nimrod. The episode is the talk
OF the park The other members OF the
party were Mayor Ed. Coltman of Idaho
Falls, Banker c. C. Campbell and Capt.
talist Frank Hit Of the same city, J. D.
Choate and. Hugh p. O'Reilly OF Salt
Lake.
The waters of the Snake arc 'just
rite" and there were just enough big
old lunkers rising TO spoon and Dy TO
give the game the right zest The river
is full OF little trout under half pound
but for the expert there are enough big
fellows TO be enticed to hook to make
the sport pleasant. Catching two and
three Founders 'just for the fun or II
and releasing them afterward was a part
Of the programme. All along the length
Of the river in the park the big ones
are rising avidly to brown-winged,
brown bodied flies and Colorado spinners,
with the preference for the latter.
Vice-President w. II. Bancroft and
party of friends spent several days in
the park on his ranch. Every member
OF his party captured the limit OF trout
Bears Become Too Familiar.
Campers coming out OF Yellowstone
park complain OF the familiarity OF the
grizzlies and other bears. Last week
several camps were wrecked by the IN
trudlng bruins, who cuffed provision
boxes 20 pieces and scattered their con-
tents to the four quarters. In some In
stances the campers fed TO the Wylie
camps for protection and afterward were
compelled to look TO these camps for
their keep. During the past week Mai
Pitcher has had his scouts shoot no less
than three OF the impudent bears, who
have grown so bold that they dispute the
road with teams. Mr.. Judson OF the
Nelden Drug company OF Salt Lake had
personal knowledge of the prowess OF
these bears, and says 1t is getting un-
safe for campers to pitch their tents In
the park 1t is said that the Govern
mental policy of treating the dumb
brutes with kindness after the manner
prescribed in the story books for good
little girls and boys who die young. may
result In the loss TO Uncle Sam OF more
than one valuable citizen. Every man
who enters the park with gun must
submit to its Sealing" and to use 1t
entails heavy fine, but "Old Mr., Griz-
Ziy" is allowed TO go where he listeth,
to rob with impunity and even to XIII II
he wants TO. "The next time I go to
the park camping I VIII build me tent
OF Harveyized steel. sort OF portable
affair, that l can walk around in said
one of the men who lost his entire out
ing's provisions. However, now that Maj.
Pitcher has taken a hand, the nuisance
will doubtless be abated.
Travel Keeps Up Unabated.
Travel to the park via Marysvlle
keeps UP with nabating vigor and the
Short Line officials are unabel TO keep
abreast of the demands for rolling stock.
Every train In and every one out OF the
park IL loaded to the guards and pas
sengers who do not take the precaution
TO make reservations of sleepers and
I'll ,l....
heels at this little town for twenty-four
hours. The weather Is unusually pleas
ant blankets being required at
night, The dust, however, on the road
TO the park is quite heavy. Only about
twenty-one miles of the park road has
been completed 10 date but Construction
Engineer Armstrong, in charge of the
work believes he Will have completed
luily nifty miles before snow stops the
work OF track-laying in the fall.
Utah Streams in Condition.
All the streams in Utah seem to be
just right now. Colorado splnners are
the most effective bait for all times.
though the royal coachman and gallery
brown dies. about No G. seem TO hit
the spot AT the confluence OF the
Snake and Warm river there are thous-
ands OF old broad shoudered fellows who
lie In walt for the true angler and every
makes one dote on the Simple Ilfe''
These old fellows draw the scales down
to three. five and seven pounds. with oc-
casionally one that hits the ten point
mark, 1t takes a good man TO Kill more
than six or seven of these princes OF the
rushing waters, but as every engagement
means hall an hour Of hot fighting at the
least: any man who would ask for more
would be deemed pot Quilted" In lis de-
slres for sport
Up in the Tetons.
Several Idaho Falls anglers are now
en- route TO Palsade lakes, away up in
the Jagged teeth Of tho Tetons, where
the Three Sisters and Mt. Moran, some
$4,000 feet high. glisten In their per-
petual snow blankets, These glncier-
made lakes are less than mile long, q
few hundred yards wido and arc con-
nected by river teomlng with big trout,
cold as chunks of ice-very one of them I