The Elbert County tribune., 1914-01-30

cayr't claim that either, coming from
the Labrador. for that's Newf'nland. a
days march nearer home.
Say. Mrs. Trevor, you don't know
my name yet. It's Smith, and with
my friends I'm mostly Jesse"
If you please. may l be one OF ycur
friends?"
IF behave good, you may. No
harm in my trying"
The moment Jesse Smith had given
me his name. l knew him well by rep
utation. Comments by Surly Brown.
the ferryman, and my husbands bitter
hatred had outlined dangerous char
acter. Nobody else lived within a
days journey.
That's my home," said Jesse. Dye
see dim trail jags down that upper
cliff? That's whar drifte6 my ponies
down when came from the States.
/ didn't know OF the wagon road from
Hundred Mile House to the ferry,
which runs by the north end of my
ranch"
And the tremendous grandeur OF
the placer"
Hum. ! don't claim to have been
knocked all in heap with the seen
cry. No. What took holt of me good
and hard was the company-a silver
top bar and his missus. both thou
sand Founders, with their three young
ladies'. now married and settled beyond
the skyline. There's two couples of
prime eagles still camps along thar
by South Cave. The timber wolf |
trimmed out because he wasted around
like a remittance man. Thar was a
stallion and his harem, this yere fool
Jones bein' one of his young mares
Besides that. there was heaps of III
friendly folks in fur, hair. and feath-
ers. Yes. have been right to home
since located"
But grizzly bears? How frightfull"
yes. They was frightened at first
The coarse treatment they gets from
hunters, makes them sort OF bashful
with any stranger"
But the greatest hunters are afraid
of them"
"The biggest criminals has got most
scare at police. Bars has no use for
sportsmen, nor me neither. My rifles
heaps fieroer than any bar. and I've
chased more sportsmen than ! has
grizzlies"
Wasn't Mr.. Trevor one of them 2"
Jesse grinned. 80 f.Sefs
Tell me-" said, for the other side
OF the story must be worth hearing.
wall, Mr.. Trevor took out sum-
MINIS agin me for chasing him of my
ranch. He got fined for having no gun
license, and no dawg license. and not
paying his poll-tax. and Cap Taylor
bound him over to keep the peace.
amt popular now with Mr.. Trevor.
whereas he got off cheap. Now. II
them bars could shoot"
hadn't thought of that. Can they
be tamed?" / asked.
Men can be gentled, and they needs
tanning most. Thar was three grizzlies
sort of adopted a party by the name
of Capen Adams. and camped and
travelled with him most familiar Once
them four vagrants promenaded on
Market Street in Frisco. Not that
holds with this Adams In misleading
his Bars among man-smell SO strong
and distrackful to their peace of mind
But still reckon Capen Adams and
me sort of takes after each other I'm
only attractive to animals"
''Oh. surelyi" laughed.
But Jesse became quite dismal I'm
not reckoned," he bemoaned himself.
among the popular attractions. The
neighbors SHES at coming near my
ranch"
We'll. IL you protect grizzlies and
hunt sportsmen. surely it's not surpris-
ing"
Cant .Slease all parties. eh? Wall,
perhaps that's how the herd is graz
ing. Yes. Come to think of it, / re-
member oncet a Smithsonian grave
robber comes to inspeck South Cave.
He said I'd got bone yard of ancient
people. and he'd rob graves to find
out all about them olden times. He
wanted to catch the atmosphere of
them days. 80 sort of helped. Rob-
bing graves amt exactly holy voca-
ton, the party had mean eye. a Ger
man name. and sort of patronizing
manner. but still l helped around to
get him atmosphere. me and Eph."
Who's Eph?"
"Oh. he's just silver-tip. what SCI
entific parties calls ursus horribilis
ord. You just cast your eye whar the
trickle stream falls below my cabin.
Dye see them sarvis berry bushes
down below the spray?"
Where the bushes are waving? oh.
look. there's gigantic grizzly stand
ing up. and pulling the branches!"
"Yes. that's Eph.
We'll. as was tellin' you, Eph and
me is helping this scientific person to
get the atmosphere of them ancient
times"
But the poor man would die of
fright"
Too busy running. When he reached
Vancouver. he was surely cripple