The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-06-25

,ai 10 the highly interesting
~ racent successful bear hunt
r-,,owstone Park in which Joe
" Zones formerly of this place
49, 1sn literary partner Joe Magill,
.vsd bunch of fasteners tne 'iihe
MAIN lives. the Globe gives peiow 'he
s ~ the participants In the hunt
w. +r,thfulness and absolute accur-
w uagllps narrative. Also an out
.ha farewell feast and some par
~ how the provender was secur-
re occasion by Monte Jones. "
srt,cle In the Cody Enterprise
Ids:
Saho Enterprise:
sp.fore leaving for New YORK, the
s'.s.. McAleenan and associates in
~ ~ making the following affida-
q You will confer favor on these
s-.,amen If you will give 1t the pub
"a. ~ your columns.
Affidavit.
rhe undersigned, having been first
~, sworn. depose and say. that the
s.,x.rts narrated in the correspond
.sns n the Cody Enterprise of MAY
~ ~ are true; viz that Joe Jones
81. attacked and bitten by female
.s,.,v ON the evening of May 10, IA,
/ - me animals teeth penetrated boot
"a clothing making slight abrasion
y 'the skin of the right leg; that the
~ having gone a short way returned
/ 4 III charge and was shot and killed
= aid Joe Jones, and that the story
) tod BY Joe Magil in the Enterprise
Il Nav 20, IA, was a true and exact
narration Of the happening on the occa-
,ion in question.
JOHN MURGATROYD,
B. C. KELLY,
JOSEPH McALEENAN,
JOSEPH MAGILL,
JOE A. JONES,
MONT G. JONES,
CARL ]. JOHNSON.
state Of wyoming, County of Park, IS.
Subscribed to and sworn to before
ne this first day of June, 1914.
C. c. MELTON,
Notary Public.
Nv commission expires July 14th, 1917
Personally, i am utterly Indifferent
as to the degree of credibility which
any Of your readers may attach to the
story which appeared over my name
in a late issue of the Enterprise. And
Ii Is with no desire to buttress the
statements made in the article in
question that / request the courtesy
Of your columns. i do so solely in de-
ference to the wishes of our eastern
friends and In justice to the guides
who figured in the exciting encounters
Of which | wrote. The average guide
is not given as rule to breaking into
literature. And the better and more
experienced guide he is the smaller
the likelihood of his tempting tn,
MUSES. by plunging into the troubled
waters of authorship. These fearless
hardy lads who safeguard the lives o
eastern hunters and by their love o
the wild" and of the creatures of ''th'
Wild bring the sportsman in toucl
with the quarry, are generally single
minded and to a large degree. unvers
ed In the art and science of letters
Content to discharge the arduous du
ties that fall to their lot, they are Blu
rarely oDsessed with the Over-vauitinI
ambition Of posing as authors, eithe
with their own or a vicarious pen. |
would be out of keeping with thei
rugged. honest natures to attempt
task for which they were untitled, an,
they would scorn to achieve unearne
and adventurous fame by AUTHORSHIP
oy proxy. The man of the woods an
Of the mountain is generally gifte
with a generous measure of commo
sense. He is keenly alive to the fac
mat guiding is his business, and tina
ne would avoid being ridiculous, h
VIII DO wen to steer clear of the rock
and shoals of the literary sea-
me average reader who would ru
on to an elaborate article over tn
name OF Johnnie Golf or Joe Jones, O
.ari Johnson would probably classif
y as he would life of Woodrow VIII