Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

turned their attention towards him.
He says he slept very poorly for the
rest of the night.
Our next teamster was Sam Har-
graves Of Spearfish. He seemed to
have poor luck with the bears, as on
every trip he lost his bacon and
finally gave up the attempt to take
any along with him. On one occa-
sion he climbed tree and hung the
bacon as far out on a limb as he
could get, but he found that he had
nothing on the bears in the climbing
line. The second day at Cub creek,
bear broke in the plank door of
our store house and made away with
about 40 pounds of beef, one ham
and slab of bacon. Next day, we
made the door bear proof. The next
mix-up our party had with a bear
was the most expensive. The supply
wagon on the way to camp, put up
for the night at the canyon. They
drove the wagon in among about 80
T. P. Co. rigs and went away for the
night.
The next morning they were short
one sack of ham and bacon, q sack
of flour, sack of sugar and had a
third of a case of scrambled eggs.
We had to borrow meat for this
week. At Cub creek, we were
obliged to put On night watch to
keep the bears away from the hatch
cry. The first watchman was David
Wells and he wasn't so brave when
it came to mixing with bears. He
had been down ON the beach one
night, with the rest of the bunch and
on returning to the hatchery, heard
a noise behind the house. He
thought was trying to job him and
walked around the corner to tell me
about it. AS he turned the corner,
| a large bear raised on its launches
and said "woof." Dave emitted q
yell and addressing the bear said
Get out of here, or l will" The bear
declined to move on, so Dave kept
his word. He passed one of the boys
on his way to the beach and his time
was recorded as forty miles a second
Thereafter Dave was inside the
hatchery before dark. They tell one
about driver who used sack OF
bacon for pillow. In the middle OF
the night he was awakened by his
head coming into contact with the
bottom of the wagon box and on
looking up, saw the sack going over
the end gate. Being an old timer he
thought bear should have more re-
spect for him and grabbed a club
determined to recover his meat. He
changed his mind, however, when he
found six other bears waiting to helI
the thief dispose of the smoked meat
We installed bath tub near what
we thought wa an extisnct geysel
and one of the boys was enjoying hii
annual when the sleeping geyser be
gan mumbling. The ground shool
and it suddenly came to life. Tht
| bather was forced to don his raimen
in a nearby patch of timber. The
geyser, since that time, has beer
spouting stream of hot water ant
mud fifty feet in the air, two OF
three times a day. The young maj
says he will never take chances OF
another bath.
While writing this, I just heart
someone shout from a passing Cod.
Transportation company rig, "Oh
you Deadwood!" The rig stopped
and Mr.. Wilson, who used to driv,
for Goldberg in Deadwood, Wake,
in. He had seen the sign. Alb
Holmes is here, the guest of d. c
Booth, the Spearfish fish hatcher,
superintendent. His health is mucl
improved since his arrival. We ex
pect to be back in Deadwood abou
the twentieth of this month.
! Claude Williams.