Arizona republican., 1910-07-17

] His mother had been Indian, which gave to him stolid shrewdness; his father had been white man, which made him sensitive. That the one had been savage and the other dssolute oucas had of course impressed Wolf John with a restless and yet an ann bilious nature-that rowing ambition which bids men seek for a relief from it Wolf John had the crude mental sturdiness of race with the mental appre ciation of another He found himself to be misunder stood by his people of the wilderness he found that he could not understand these people of the clearings
 He came through the wood. Cleaned, and with his hair trimmed to decency he would have been bad to look upon. His brow was high his eyes large and beautiful his mouth not large, but pencied with the markings of paintve and would-be gentle disposition
 A short distance down the pathway he started as if nervously and uttered low exclamation of surprise But this not because of his having been observed unkndly-rather that he had There, in the softer ground, imprinted the unmisakable mark of bear Wolf John noted the little incisons made by the keen toe-claws. The mark was fresh. Wolf John could hear the harsh cry of the mill He looked to his gun Then little cry of terror sounded. Wolf John ran down the pathway, turning with it to enter a tiny clearing into which the sunlight fell through thinning fence of saplings. \ woman had moment before entered this glade from the opposite side She was immovable from fear, her eyes diated her mouth half
 open, her whole poisc expressing terror. Wolf John saw a heavy-shoulderer, lurching body an unganly thing which would have been grotesque had not been so to be feared. This beast was between them. It was running with a lopng stride snuffing, toward the woman, and seeing the frightened helpessness of her. Wolf John threw up his gun and fired, aiming behind the shoulder. With low growl of intense rage the bear swung around its long knifelke claws ripping into the moist earth its teeth showing plainly white, its little vicious eyes blood red There no time in which the could reload. Wolf John cast the gun aside as he tried to evade the beasts rush toward him swinging paw blow ripped the covering from his thigh, just tearing the flesh, and with a terrible daring the hafbreed plunged his long knife into the animals throat. "A knife is a poor, feeble thing against the rage and fangs of grizzly bear. The next stroke of the paw tore away his heavy jacket and shirt cutting into the flesh of his shoulder crushing his arn opening it to the bone Wolf John weakly stabbed at the animal as he fell, world swimming before his eyes in which stood imrnovable He rcmem- bered nothing more than this, after he felt the hot teeth of the animal sink into his arm, though the woman was his last impression. He did not hear a second shot from the thcket A man may not engage grizzly bear with knife and retain interest in other matters. The two men who came up despatched the animal with They hurried Wolf John the set tlemen carrying him with all the tenderness possible in
 rapid stride for they saw his danger They met by Dave Larsen old and the father of the girl she having come home nearly crazed by fright