Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-01
To be Continued.
WHITE BEAR Is SAFE.
Regarded as Ghost, Pennsylvania Ma
tiyes Will Not Shoot.

tives Will Not Shoot.
Between the curiosity and the su-
perstition that the appearance Of q
white, or albino, bear has caused in
that section of the county lying north
Of Karthaus, across the plateau to the
hills overlooking Heating. in Clinton
county, Pa, this freak animal Is the
sensation of the season. In all the
experiences this is the first time that
the appearance Of white bear In this
section Of the world has been report
ed.
The rare animal has been seen twice
since the opening Of the hunting sea-
son, but it will require somebody with
less superstition than the natives to
kill the albino. The superstition Is
something akin to the old fear Of see
ing or killing white deer. and the
probability is that this rare specimen
will be permitted to go unmolested.
Once last summer this creature was
seen near wayside spring by team
ster, who had stopped to water his
horses; but he thought 1t was a stray
white calf, and so reported it. But
soon after the bear season opened this
fall and while two hunters were
tramping the "slashings" beyond the
John Rohn place, one Of them was
startled to see two bears rise from
their "wallow" and start off into the
thicket. and one Of these was as white
as a dirty bear after a season in the
dust could afford to be.
The black bear was killed by a
shot from the hunters gun, but the
albino, though equally as good a
chance was afforded to hit 1t, was per-
mitted to hike off into the bushes and
to safety.
One day last week while young
fellow Of the name Of Smoke was In
the woods in the same general neigh
borhood he caught sight of the white
bear and ran all the way home, a dis
tance Of nearly three miles, lest the
awful apparition, as he thought 1t
was, would do him some terrible
harm. He explained that the bear
was as white as snow and looked for
all the world like the ghost Of a bear
and that 1t seemed not to be afraid
Of him, but rather defied him when he
tried to frighten 1t. 1t was then that
he concluded that he was facing some
thing more than an ordinary denizen
of the forest, and he hiked for home.
Curiously enough, the experience OF
young Smoke has given rise to a lot
Of weird tales recalling the strange
disappearance of old and rich John
Rohn several years ago, a mystery
that aroused a statewide interest be-
cause Of its odd features.
The community has in. 1t several
families Of half-breeds, white and ne
gro mixed, and these are the most su-
perstitious kind of people imaginable.
At the time of the disappearance Of
old man Rohn these folks told Of the
aueerest of sights and sounds and Of
the fitting Of white doves in the night
time, and the strange bawling of cows
far into the night, flames leaping from
the fireplace in the Rohn mill at mid
night, and a lot Of other trash that
made Of the story one that sounded
much like a tale from the days OF
witchcraft, as indeed it might be, for
these people are firm believers in what
dream books say and in the occult.
The white. bear incident has stirred
up the old sensation Of the Rohn dis
appearance with lot Of new theories,
and the little settlement is wrought UP
over the strange thing. But the white
bear runs little chance Of being kill
ed. Rather does 1t stand for making
little short of a panic among the half
breeds-Philadelph Record.