Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-06

- DORE ROOSEVELT shot a
1850 pound grizzly bear On
- Dakota yesterday"
This item was printed in tho ncWspa-
pcrs Dec 20. 1854 I'm view OF an that
has occurred since that date. and think
ing about what is liable 60 take place
iu Africa and Egypt I'm the twelve
months ahead, the item looks Insignia
cant But % is am intimation TO the
iuuglCs OF the hunter who is soon 20
enter the lairs Of the ferocious. The
story of the killing Of the Dakota griz-
zy is worth retelling for IL was writ
ton hv the eN-assemblynan I'm a letter
10 one OF his friends. Condensed, it Is
as follows.
Mr. Roosevelt and his cowboy struck
n hot trail not far from the ranch cabin.
As the trail got hotter even the exc
asscmblymau became excited. Tie heard
groVl Instantly he brought his gun
Co present arms" His eyeglasses
clutChcd his nose In q grip He saw
the grizzly forty feet away CHere fol-
lows the CORES oudents description of
the scencD The eX-assemblyman look
I'd Ike the Roosevelt who I'm the Chi
Cago national convention shook his fist
at William Walter Phelps and Missed.
"You-scoundrel. sit down yourself"
Mr. Phelps had a moment before or
dercd Delegate Roosevelt 20 sit down.
I'm the hunt for the grizzly the cowboy
had got "a bead ON the game when the
ex-assembyman yelled % him: Here.
let that bear alone That's my bear.
TN shoot you il YOU shoot first" The
bear sat up Oh his launches and took
Ia
went the gun of the ex-assemblyman
Down went the bear.
Tho language addressed 90 tho COVE
boy by tho next president rauNcd in
tho cowboys breast Iie reproIchcd
the bear killer for tho words. What
followed was Characteristic of RoOsc-
Welt lie auologizod Not only that
but he presented him with his rifle
holsters. corduroy hrcochos-vhiCh had
been the envy of the cowboy
threw In tho horse.
n "a little incident like this was
worth putting ON the wires and after
ward into O. letter what may tine pub
Nc expect when the hunt Do africa is
under way?
Some First" Shots.
OF Theodore Roosevelt at different time.
would ON several books. I'm fact they
have been told in books A faw of th,
FIRST win suffice here
Tie got his nrst buffalo in lssa H.
was established lu Maltese ranch Do
tho Bad Lands OF Dakota. A noWapa.
per man who was out there and knew
every foot of tho country described thi
ranch whom he said 'it stretched from
hcu 20 Texas The first night ont th,
horses were st1mpeded by "a bunch 0
bunalooa Tle uet day Roosevelt
dropped his first bull DE was so aIat
ed with hIs success THAT according to
witness. he fairly danced with Fl0e an.
ou tho spot handed Joo Ferris a ufl
dollar hiL
Cmo Tho Time whom Roosevelt ua
t1 lay low his Hrt mountain Dion. D
WAS somewhere near Keystone ranch
The dogs bad brought "a lion uucN
uoctsdly to bay The young New York
or had poo time to shoot Whether Do
had gum 1t tle limo the witness doe
not toll But Roosevelt lo8pcd from
hls saddle and plunged bowie knit
into tine vital spot OF che Zion Th
animal rruute0 once. M Was his iusi
u.Dwr. Hf tue sssmbIymaI
nhen ue rHs un fno plain. n 1850 o.
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. purchased $50 rancho. u.Hrr N.aua
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