The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-06-25
EIBLIC ENJOYS BEAR STORY,
|YET HUNTERS SWEAR ABOUT IT
i. fasteners and Put Monte Jones on the "RrnLn
With Paralyzing Owl Story-A
Hi-Yu Time

son by julius Caesar or ,yor. ~, Col
onel Cody and his times nv uaroy,r,
tus the Ephesian. And the classifica-
uon would be eminently correct !, 3.
merely in justice then to nv dea,
good friends who by their faithful ana
ellclent work contributed So largely
TO the success of the McAleenan Marty.
and to the fame OF the firm of Tones
Brothers Il Magin, that | am anxious
to have this affidavit published There
are | know, doubling Thomases whose
lhcredulity will not be shaken even bv
this sworn testimony Such men are
imperNious to conviction. and il would
be waste of logic and reason to at
tempt to convince them. On the other
hand there is it must be confessed.
some foundation for this unbelief So
many cock andbu stories have been
told of wonderful performances in the
shooting line, that the general public
finds itself at loss to winnow the
grain of truth from the Munchausen-
like chaff of fairy tales. 1t certainly
Is to laugh, as our French friends
would say, to read some of the extraor-
binary feats credited to some modern
hunters. AT the same time ii ought to
be admitted that truth has not perish
ed utterly from the face of the earth.
There is still. here and there, torn
fragment at least of her shining robe
But the average man of today comes
from Missouri You'll have to show
him before he makes an act of faith
| in any dogma you may declare, or
| ie
unbeleving age. We are stiff neck
ed generation, and cynicism and unbe-
| lief are the order of the day And this
| lack of faith is confined to no section
or class. Tell your neighbor that you
trailed bear or lion for countless
miles and then by a superhuman ex-
hibition of ballistic skill brought the
quarry to the ground. Ten chances to
one some individual creosoted in Gym
cism. saturated with incredibly. will
| tell you that you robbed some wander
ing son of Italy of his performing bear.
or that the lion you killed was some
! pampered and unsuspecting pet that
had long ago lost all the fierce in
| stincts of his wild ancestors
If there were any men from Nilsson
ri in Cody on Sunday last-and | sup
pose there were some specimens of
that unbelieving breed, they certainly
"were shown by the party whom
Jones Brothers and Magll guided tc
such record breaking success during
the month of may The coats the de-
ceased bear wore furnished competent
evidence. Grizzly or brown or black
only disrobe when their warrior spirit
loopholes of their wounds.
And this success in the sportins
line was only a small part of the ex
quisite and unforgetable experience
When it comes to attempting de
scription of the glorious time every
body had words are but vain and fulfill
things. From the very first day. unit
Mr. McAleenan and his friends Ell
trained at Cody, the entire trip wa
an unbroken series of fun and frolic
Hunters and guides and cooks ant
horse wranglers, formed one big broth
erhood in which each put forth hi
best efforts to contribute to the com
: fort and the enjoyment of the Others
Ed Jones and Ed Holmquist locke
after the interests of the inner man
And they did 1t with that rare ski
that makes the very recollection o
their dishes pleasurable memory
} The banquet that these two chefs Sc
out on the last evening in camp was
wonder in it's way. Old Lucullu
! himself if he returned from tn
shades. could have found no faul
| with the equipment of the table
; or with the luscious and appetizin
dishes which followed one another /
quick succession. When the party ha
taken their seats the tent resemble
: more closely the banquet hall of som
leading hotel, than a camp out in Tn
? wild. Your humble servant was non
ored with the position of toastmastel