The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-23
GRIZZLIES BEING
DRIVEN WESTWARD
Repeating Rifle Accounted
for Animals Changing
Their Haunts.

likely that the grizzly bear will ever
become extinct" said Captain Jerry
Kreiter, an old time plainsman and
Rocky mountain prospector. he has
the same come to be something OF
rarity i'm many of his original haunts,
and the hunter seeking sport with him
now must journey into the fastness
OF the far Sierras and Coast range
mountains or into the wilderness OF
the British provinces in the north
west
.In frontier days. when the hunter
and the ranchman had only their dou-
BILE barreled guns. the grizzly had lit
tic fear of them. But when the re-
peating guns and the rest Of the de-
strOyers began 10 confront him he
gradually but reluctantly fell away
from the pleasant borderland and
sought safety In the deepest isolation.
when there were buffalos on the
Plains the grizzly bears were keen and
persistent hunters of them. a herd OF
buffalos on it's journey seldom escap-
cd attack from grizzlies all along the
line. When a grizzly and buffalo
came to battle there was sure to be
n savage contest. although 1t never
lasted long. the buffalo usually being
the vanquished.
Bear and Buffalo.
Confronted by bear. buffalo
bull would invariably charge furious
1y upon the big and ugly foe. This
was as the bear expected. He waited,
crccte on his launches, the onset OF
the buffalo. As the latter rushed for
ward with lowered head and was al
most up to the bear. the bear would
throw himself to one side with aston.
fishing Quickness. and at the same in
slant deliver "a blow with one OF his
powerful forepaws that seldom failed
TO break his antagonists neck. Ii
sometimes happened. though. that the
bull was young and agile enough to
evade this blow long enough to give
In turn deadly thrust of his horn in.
90 the bears side. making the COM
bat mutual slaughter.
Some old Rocky mountaineers are
Of the opinion that the retreat Of the
grizzly bears to the inner Businesses
of the wilderness Of the farther north
west Ia due to the passing OF the buff
falo There Is no doubt that the pass
ing OF the buffalo had much 70 do with
the grizzly bear leaving Its old haunts.
but II wasn't SO much the mere pass
ing OF the buffalo as the causes OF
that passing. Instinct told the griz-
ely that those same causes would. In
time. bring about his own passing IL
he didn't get away from Their. and he
got. .... ri
Not Scarce Vet.
"But there are plenty OF grizzlies
yet. II one cares to undergo the toll
and trouble OF going where they are.
IL was going after sport with these
tough and ugly beasts today. | would
MT stop until ! got at least two good
days journey into the wild mountain
region Of southwest Idaho. The man
who will camp In that country when
the grizzlies are on the move will
have n chance TO bag the biggest and
most tenacious members OF that big
and tenacious family to be found out
side OF the Manitoba Rockies.
There are plenty OF silvertip and
cinnamon bears I'm that wild Idaho
country too. and some sportsmen
think there are more excitement and
danger In chasing or being chased by
n silver tip than there Is in chasing or
being chased by n grizzly. That is all
u matter OF taste or opinion. but YOU
may take II from me that II any one
who has ever stood up and pumped
lead from repeating rifle into
Rocky mountain grizzly bear and seen
n keep right on In Its savage charge
toward him until 1t fell to the ground
rihdlcd by the ceaseless leadcn pellets
wants to face more formidabl bunch
OF fercencss and deadly fear than
that he IL welcome to the chance.
And Il Ia further my opinion and be-
lief that he will have to go off of the
American continent to find II.
Have Curious Habit.
"Grixxly bears. like all the rest of
the bear family. have the CURIOUS hab-
II never yet satisfactorily explained
Of rising on their hind feet against a
tree and reaching up as far as they
can with their forcpaws. making
at II with their claws. I have come
upon these marks made as high as
twelve feet aboe ground.
Imagine coming suddenly upon
beast capable Of such n reach as that
with all the corresponding attach
ments Of bulk and power. in some
impadccp ravine or isolated spot al
most impossible owing to the down
TIMBER heaped and tangled on the
Gnpund and surrounded by rocks and
thick underbrush. The sight of his
great jaws. open and red. and his eyes
flashing In fury NJ you as the towers
and snarls-for the grizzly bear is in
chronic state Of bad temper-is
something the hair raising quality of
which can only be appreciated by be-
Ing seen"