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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-20
COPYRIGHT 1902

! YOU, says Bill, fair frothin at the mouth by
this time And when she was standin there
|. tryin' to squeeze her ton or two q oag-boags
! bong in through them door-siils at Us, he just
iambastes her cae on tie top O the head.
you're drivin' away eight good horses
power, all for the sake Of d little persona!
feelin' says Andy, indignant But whil,
!, she's still Scarin her shoulder-fur Oh on them
door -jambs tryin' to s.t through at us, Bill
up ans a;..,es her anothss on the tip Of hex
nose usl between tho piggy little eyes and
the gapin mouth with iis waternclon rind Of
a tongue.
81 allow never saw such g change come
over she-bear's face. She backed of from
that door, kind o stupefied and indignant,
then she drew herself up, Kind o med and
menacin' But the ncxt thing we kn-w she
was up the side O. that shack, in through thts
roof, and down on the garrct-hoor with a
thump that shook the budin'. We heard;
her devastatin things as she bumped into
cm. We heard her maxim kindlin woad o.
stuff UP thereand then everything seemed
to come to stop. We got on the far side o
them protectin door jambs, expectin her TO
drop through the trap But she didn't in3,
dulgc in no droppin' She didn't even seem.
to be movn' round up there
Andy wagged his head, kind O. hoFefs
and rcassurin sayin we'd sure go; hcr sub
jugatctI, after all But Eli Just eycc th2t
shack interior, disgustcd through and through
Then be Informs Andy that like as not SIZES
sittin' dowr. up there indugr' in spell O
this high-souadin' studyin' -g1sne SO liar
in the ncighhorhocd Then we beganlto see
stuff dropp,n down through the board cracks
But still we waited Then Bill stepped in
side and caught sor,e O that drip in ilS hand
and smelt Of it,
"'That pirootin varlnint's ii our Hudson
Bay RUM gssps Bill And that sum. was
true Andy and me arrangcs TIE bread.tins
under the he"~iest drippin' spots to gitwhft
we could, while we stand and lis.en TO that
Old EpLraim a-lappin' and cai.1ll' and 4
sighin' away up there overhead II <
"'She's eatin' US out, liquor and ail& H I. SAWS
Andy, givin' away for the first tins Eu:
there seemed to be nothin' that king q stud
iers could suggest. We just stood there,
waitin' We stood there until we heard that
she-grizzly scramblin, and dawin' and gNiats
in down the side O the shaekagain, !, I, 3 Sisllsi
"But instead o tryip' TO shdildsf, Fin
through that door at US. sic sat of ,alout
twenty feet rockin' herselsirom side 10 side
and maxim a noise Like a grandfsther's ciock
Then she cleaned hes fore. paws, slowsapd
deliberate, and then her hind feet, bear
fashion, and then she does . sun o happyand
lulmberin' ean-ean, just 10 show she's .stil
game. Then she comes and sticks her
silly, leery, gray-black pissnout il between
them door r-jalnbs within loot Of sg ,hrse.
amt q firm believer in the ihinin,s power
Of anirniles, but IN eat ;py hat j. thst she
t Il - Z 81 1. IL
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d0or-sash TO tine front O. the Stove, hckin'
up the bacon grease from the fryin' pan I
could see she was still some ravenous, she was
so lean and lank and nangy-lookin', and as /
sized up the sidc-laps along her carcass l
began TO ieel Kind O sick and uneasy, wonder
N just what r,enner 0 iccdin she was gcin
IN Ill thsya Gaps ont with.
"'Nhasn ~ Gan' TO do?' says Bill,
Shaky ia The kucaA. "a we heard :hk noise o.
:ass shs-lsir pdtss' down his pantry and
woSsir her nose Hp in.o his sugSr-crock.
s.Irt me study this thing out, says Andy,
siti;n down ousa empty pork barrel, as calm
as though he was coutemplatn' the next
move in a garle o. checkers
Let you sesdy i crt!' says Bill, gttin'
ho.. You en- d. al the studyin' you like,
but I want . gst oat Of this al-6rrd merag-
erisi And lrsn to thatl'
Lister 70 what says Andy.
There goes my pancakc batter SAYS
Bin, takin' u cautious ioos down into the
shack
1T was about then that Andvs She
grizzly, gittin' excited over that pancake
batter, backed up unthinkin against Bills
cook-stoye. That stove was some hot. She
jumped SO hard, when she jumped, that she
hit the sleepin' -bunks and made the shack
walls shake, Then she swung round and let
out at that hot stove, same as she ID bite for a
bullet wound bifhn' il side-st7oke with
her night paw, and then 4 side stroke With her
lett, till she had !, spihnia' round that shack
same as kitten'd make spool turn. She
kept gitnn' lnadder ard madGcr, and the
smell OF begnin' hair was so bad we had to
shut down the trap. But she never let up on
that stove until she got il out through the
door aad hallway down the canyon
Bill and me waited hrea,hless, hopin
against hope tha! she'd go off and nurse hcr
sore paws SOS we could get down and do q
little barricadin But that she grizzly WASH !.
slvin' IN so early in the game She oaras
back, no. as hornet, and the next thing we
knew she was tearin' down the bunks and
rippin' up the beddin', lookia for something
assoom, to stay that AZ afed appetite o
hers.
She'll be in this here attic in less than
i've seconds says Bill Then ne !cokcd over
at Andy stll studyin' on his pork barrel
i move, says Bill, that one member o
Ibis party goes down into the shack, Just to
give the others hghun' chance
~Whht oae o. youS asks Andy, lookin
up.
~ moves the oldest mem,er goes first
ays nn. ihe sar,e bein', uu account Of age
he csa.;zi lsaicr O this hes~ ..io
Witch @ns, Andy. is ,psr SAY. /
sL' Andy ns~u so risch - hears. Hs sis
thcr', s,udyin'. Then khd o. oret and
satisfied light steals over his face still ali
screwed up with studyin'.
!" "Tbafs my bta,p says Andy, quiet and
determined like
Well, ifit's your bear, says Bill, 'when'rs
you goin' TO tale her where she'll quit annoy
in folks who ain't layin' any special claim
.c hcrp'
THAT'S my bearp says Andy over again
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AbsnitNh.s\ \lifrc shack. But I've got third
usssEt tina whole shootin' match. ard I
xanrt,sGr 70 see my prk,ry devastated this
kwnyexi<hont putin up Home kind o IghsP
sSc whegf that clcan-locecd bear csme circlin'
ds~n srer the roos afssr US and wo 6i~ed Il
\ A4Ae shsck cucs man, Bill took dns 70 xsb
IA, fve<oct ilurnSstnke ,sandin' against the
Aall u,ere Andy tried 10 argue hhn out oi
cit Aput iaere wasn't much time for nls Re
saidN Bin was spoilin' the finest plan he'd
ever studied out, and that once he d got that
bear tanned down she'd be just the thing for
\hauliH an ore-ear, Then I'll tame her for
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again and the last Of our sour-dough gone,
to say nothin Of quart O. m'Iasses and a
TN Of applesass. This was some discouragin'
to Andy But he studies i. out tina. nigh:,
and allows that this Lore she ~grissiy, bcin'
hungry, Is a'goin' TO tlld grub BE SAP rs
only common ssnse, accortiE', TO rsgilasn Ia.
5run destroyir' pzppcrty. 50 psxs dsy when
M,ocks up. same ~ usual, w leAye hunk q
bacon sad pound or two O. sugar IN R'lls
catxen, just outside The shsek d0oe.
That dish-pan's as clean n 4 awAigtiA
next night, wh~, ,se git back from wc.t
But the shacf hadn't been intericred ~ta.
SoAndy sllc~s a. how the problems -
tied. AID we've got to do is fed sfst grizzly
rrg'lay and decent, and tAere'o BE- - need O.
trouble. o
It's only right says Andy, seem the
amount o dust we're washin' up But Bill
bein' cook, kicked against havin' 10 rustic
them extra rations, and kept skimpin' that
grizzly moren more. iae natural outcome
was, when we lit the trail for home one night,
We found the shack door of again, as kind
o protest against bein' stintcd 8iu allowed
he was willin' TO take week OF, then, and
trip overland and git gun and ammunition.
Andy said we couldn't waste the time, seein'
we were a-washin' up three ounces day.
He said grizzly was grizzly and had to be
treated as such He also allowed this. bear
was law-abidin bear, when she was used
sight--a well behaved and delent-.iiinded
she bear. She weren't forward and brazen.
She weren't assumin' too much Or irwin to
drive us out o the Upper Elbow We'd
struck il rich, and we'd our duties to others
"slncluded in which same amt no wet
nursin' o under-fed she grizzlies, says Bill
"'Bill says Andy, we've got to treat this
here bear as an equal She amt pawn ne
board, allow, But I've been stu6yin' over
this thing, and maybe some day Wen GIT that
board out o her, and more, too
Andy ncyer said just how he Vas eoin
to gitn, but in the meantime grub was runnin
low, specially pork, OF which that she-bear
was uncommon fond We had 10 devise little
,icmis Tor her, aud dietary 'sprses, % keep
her from sc:a Oh : rampage snS clswih
down that shack door again And Bill KEEP,
a-telln US ne d give eight ounces o gold ioy a
half-poand o good poison
Andy was sttin' one night sludyin out
this grub problem Andy vas some dis
,urbci because that grizzly hadn't consumed
lhr prcne-pnddin' be and Bill'o made and
irt. outx.de 10. her tiat sncrpin', to seer .cs
nsini III :se lack D me&i, Arl ano r~'t
lusi cnt the exnis y see xsH'. elmo Into ~
grub Svrr@ +,,s feerL Iovn dnn,ja.n 0,
Hudson Eay Tw~reundrv p.o% I'd los,
OF the cut and vas up through the trse
so can'i ealsrge oa jnst f0w tia: ssac'r
enliyenin tableau got under way An
know is heard a rippin' o wood and the
smashin OF door, and the next minute Dill
seemed TO cannohade up through that oper
.trap-scutte and Andy after him, all eyes and
his hair bristlin'
"'It's our grizzly, sqneals Andy as he
yanks up the ladder
And look at the size o her the love
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aint explained 4 H6W " Y Nc NJ f@oin @ y " SGsa60t'b'
! this here garret. ,You surely amt ezpcctin'
US tp climb do*n and shortcut, ut,across the
snack with that she.gri1zly waihdtOund 70
:: ANDY ANDY jus. snasd dsaSss qua ny :, hi.
t'I've got that studiedodt, Bill. ). A she-bear's
plumb elastic, you'll allow. When.a gallon
!. or two q sthisAgAtert starts amagtnatin with
sthat evaporat krtfk }. and. t.shsmi iapples.gct to
assiininl their hight, md natural Dimensions
our visitor down bcIbNE NEWon't be any more
able to get out O. that doorway than a steer
could get out between the bars Of cattle car
So our friend Sunset here can be workin' a
hole up through the rocf, just above where
that watcr-ilume comes in. Then we can
slide down on the outside, once we've locked
Nthis trap shut and begin negotiations about
tamin tins unruly prisoner OF olrsp
"While he was explainin how he'd studied
it all out, and was workin' a two-foot hole
through the shack roof, that she-bear began
to feel bad, and make considerable trouble.
First she fell 10 snufllin' and growlin' and
then she took to racin' rourd and round
inside them sixteen-foot walls; then she got
downright mad and began cNaw.n' and
! tearin' and slIashin' up the bunk timber
and the table Then before Andy or Bill or
med realized what sne was up to, she raNred
on her hind legc, and got clangrip on that
trap door She'd that door ripped and
! wrenched of before Bill'd 50 much as got
shis head through the roof-openin / was
natter him, hot-foot-Ike ! noticed that Andy
wasn't stoppin' to do any extra studyin',
while that Old Ephraim was swingn' herself
up into the garret afterus. We never looked
eback We just slid down the roof, and
dropped to the ground.
in through the door, says Andy.
.SEs>can't pass itp
$50 in we diyed, with that varmint tearin'
\up the ground and tryin' to shoulder her way
in,aftcr us But il was like tryin' to git a
\nurnber eleven foot into number seven shoe
pack. She wouldn't fit. Then she sat back,
ssni seemed to be studyin' the thing out, same
\ as Andy would. Seein' she could only get
Abaek sthe way she'd come out, up she went
Sthat wall again and in through the roof, and
down through the trap, while we, o course
Ndived outside, and once again she started to
|. tear things up. and try to push her carcass
Nthrough them narrow iambs. And again she
\sawit wouldr'twork So up she went through
sthe trap and The roof again, rippin' away q
klittle more o. orr buildin' every trip she made
\ 'All that active exercise seemed to be doin
hA good, too, kind o occupyin' her mind and
maxim her forget about her internal pains
But that game o cross.tag, in and out OF
shack &ioor began to get kind o. monctonous
/ We couldn't just see what we were pulin' out
, o that game o French and English.
l "sI tcll>you what it is, Andy. says Bill
J dodgin' outlfor the seventh or eighth time
you may be designin' to subjugate this her,
she,bearsior menial labw, and you may'ys
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grizzly didn't wink ems hlasy - GksAuh,
and then .he-o.hss at Bill ss4xaa &cn5ks
went sse;uaatisa xn4nsam' - 6uws d ~,
drank as ahddlr ib
" And wavu Ar ara snas were rsrA:n' D
nsw stoys md adfcsh sspfiyc5 grub, ~
daye la1Rs We aa souss ~ ssnnanR .ss,st
snbsar teEr miles o y dawn ths Upper
couma9.
Whats 'he use o stutin' fls:nSs sui,'
says Andy, kind a slow and solemn as he
stood regardin' what was left Of that grizzly
o his, when this Is all you git out Of itPsh
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of Gawd, look at the size O her, says Bill,
kind O blue round the gills.
"'And she amt shown the grattood she
Ought tol SAYS Andy, iretful and hurt-likc.
II got one eye out over the trap, and took
a careful look down into the shack There
was that She grizzly, reachin' about from the
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the shack-door of its hinges when she came,
and before she went she consoomcd ev'ry lick
O. eatables lyin' loose around that shanty.
" Me and Andy rehung the door that night
and stiliened her up with extra oss-picces.
When we got back from the creek-bed next
night-fall, that door was sure. enough down
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Ss-sYl smoked I and loanged
about the basan scented
portage end while Timber Line Ike rp-sawed
snd Whitfield and adjusted patch, emitting
| Haried and blasphemous calculations on the
inordiratc destructiyencss Of bears in general
Aasshe worked
Why'd that bear-cub bite holes in boat
Isb2.tom, anyhow inquired the City Man.
..sT Jus onery all-hred cusseunessl" ex-
| sAained Sunsct Brisco ALLOW there amt
&meaner. .anmile on four legs than bear"
AN" Which same reminds me o''thas Kippewa
/ souti. q mine ruminated the man called
SEeasley, bending low over the irayed end Of
| = tump-line he was trimming
As1 she-bear's sure mischecyious as q
icprgca, put in bearded sage who was
fliendinga shoe-pack with thread and needle.
N sAad / reckon Andy Wachett were as ILL.,
| Vc<d ~ one o them four legged yarnints as
my man who ever chawed hammock, COM
Eacnse. Sunset Brisco
ss Me and Andy and exeatin' house man
colled Bin Weinert had drifted down from
+; Sxagary in inc Of season." began Sunset.
I'VE were baAtin' It for the Fort Liard coun-
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|L1 NeEe core e..d lean as shotes when we
lfpped into free Trader named Tiernan.
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Then be crossed bis legs and swung round to
where we're peekin' down through crack m
the trap-door.
"Boys, says he, T'vestudied this thing all
out.
Have your says,BiIl.
"And | allow I'm. uncommon proud Of
howQ'm a-goin. .toIub} }6gatcetis hcre grizzly
says Andy.
"Then. for the,lovc, q 'Lucifer get busy
says Bill, or she u be a-subjugatn' asf
Boys, says And, ,calm as ever, you'll
. allow this grizzly, ,stuncommonh hungry
\ I'VE allowed shnr rwas,Hurr wishin It was
otherwise.
!. Sand youwon' 'bdisputcthefact that we've
got grub and wstersup ,herer
( I'VE wuuldn,tdispute.it.
, a'And you'll give me credit for buildin'
and anchorin' you shack that's about IS
! strong in the wall joints -as a government
powdershantyY
I'VE didn'tdenyf Il.
\ sand you, notindtthat this here she
grizzly downstairs was just narrow enough
across the 4fanks; to get in between them
door-andbs2 Well thatgrizzly has good as
done for,Alreadyp
That amt herr tombstone you're a.
carvin' there, Is it2' says Bill, ,,wa&hip' Andy
whittlin' on the ends the ,pork-barrel, and
thinkin' he e'dAmaybcsgone atittle out o"his
head
"'Slow and hstesdysalways does it, boys
says Andy, shnttin' tuEghis knife. and disre'
gardin' Bills sarcasic1manner. II you'll
! just step back and follom1irectionsyouu see
! how bit of quietstudy nAsometimeskind O
pays for itselfp
/. And with thatxAndy dylpropscup the,trap a
foot or two, and.hauls,osrr alcouple o sacks
% evaporated applss. Then sha' 'zipssopen
4'Whatre youHBinkow7sys Bill. \
~'Gittin' .resdyforsa .sw1lls supper says
Andy droppins ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
trap door.
That's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
says Bill, Is, wc listened to the heRrizzly
chanlpin' uptharfs lknS grub bafpssxchitthe'
shackrdoor ,
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goin' to keep US three people. .pcnned\ \up in,
this here hole while you feed out good pro-
W. el1s. un,A 'nas, sne.lss se's PUN : 1s's-
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NE wandering and rest
less-hearted cub bear
had put i hole in our
canoe bottom, a hole that
"a ground hog might have
crawled through. So we
smoked and loanged
about the baigsjn scented
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-20
WANT THE 1911 MEETING
Several Cities Seek the Next Ma
tionaI Conservation Congress

Saint Paul, Mimi, Aug 20.-The
fight between the cities that want the
1911 meeting of the National Conser-
walton Congress has started. Wash
ington, ID. c., Milwaukee, Wis. Bal
timore, Md, Los Angeles, Cal, and
Rochester, n. Y, are actively i'm the
field and within the next few days at
least half a dozen other cities are ex-
pected to enter the contest.
Kansas City st. Louis and Omaha
were after the congress last year and
IL is probable that they VIII enter the
contest for the 1911 meeting. Letters
have been received from the CONNER
cial Club of Rochester. the Chamber
Of Commerce of Washington and the
Citizens Business League of Milwau-
kee, requesting information concern
ing the requirements. Secretary Shipp
has informed those who made inquiry
that Saint Paul business men appro-
priated $4,000 for the congress. pro-
cured the city's auditorium as the
meeting place free of charge, supplied
office quarters for the secretary and
hlS WIN lVitt lildl tdIlt W tilt
city several. weeks ahead of the con-
gress and as a supplementary offer
placed at the disposal of the con-
gress the free services of the munich
pal advertising bureau of Saint Paul.
At the first congress in Seattle last
year il was decided to hold this years
meeting in a citw between Chicago
and Denver on n date between Sep
tember 1 and Is. Kansas city had
practically won the fight for this
years congress when Saint Paul
stepped in and gained the day.
Then it was left for Theodore
Roosevelt to name the date on which
he could attend the congress and this
resulted in September 5. G. Z, s, o.
being selected. This year. however.
IL is likely that the question of the
1911 meeting place will be decided on
the floor of the congress- The ques-
tion will be taken up on the last day
when the officers OF the congress are
elected.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-20
cHlcAGo's >.REAT GROWTH.
Directory Publishers Say City Has
Population Of 2,500,0o0.

Chicago, Aug. 20.-With n new di-
rectory living the names of SO3,IOS
Chicagoans and accounting for a to-
tai of 2,S29,013 by the usual method of
computing populations of cities. pub
fishers of what is said TO be the largest
directory i'm the world, announced yes
terday their belief that Chicago has
100000 people.
The directory compared the SO3, los
names found in Chicago In 1910 with
the number found in 1900, and, COM
pairing the latter with the census bu-
reau's finding of the latter year, reach
ed an average. From this is reached
the conclusion that Chicago's popula-
ton is 2.239,013 and allowing for er-
rors, E. j. Dillon. i'm direct charge of
the directory, says an estimate of D.
100000 is not too large
The Smiths no longer enjoy the dis
tinction of being the most numerous
family i'm the directory. The Johnsons
have put all others far behind them,
and the new book shows there are s.
2O5 of them i'm Chicago, to say moth
ing OF SIS Johnstons, who might be
included. The Smiths are easily sec
ond, having 1898 to their credit.