The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-07-28

the wrecage for what he could get.
One Of the big yellow buses went
over the embankmento on the Cody road
while I was there and q woman was
dashed against a tree and her neck
broken, while nine others were in
jured. Still there are few accidents
in the Park considering the thousands
of tourists who visit there every sea-
son.
One can visit Yellowstone Park
with an auto very reasonably if he is
willing to camp out and really this
makes the very finest kind of an out
ing. You can leave Minot, drive to
the Park, 700 miles distant, spend five
days in the Park and see everything
that is really worth seeing and be back
in Minot in eleven or twelve days, and
not hurry in the least. The trip for
an average size family need not cost
more than $4,000 if they camp out.
Food costs no more in the park and
enroute than it does in your home
town. OF course there is the Old
Faithful Inn and the big fine hotel
at Canyon Falls in the park that cost
away up in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars. The cheapest room in
either of those hotels is $3.50 per
night, but if one does not. wish to
camp out, there are the Wiley Camps
that are quite reasonable. The Wiley
Camps cost $3.50 per night for bed
and $1.00 per meal. One is assigned
to real comfortable little half-tent
and half house with board floor and
plain lumber bed, but with excellent
springs and mattress, plenty Of warm
bed clothing for the cool nights and
little camp stove in the room with
plenty of wood to make a comfortable
fire for one to dress by. In the morn
ing a lad calls at the room at 6 and
asks if one wants the fire kindled
and you usually do. Nearly every
body who doesn't camp out, patron
ICES the Wiley Camps, except the
swells from the big cities and they
wouldn't know how to enjoy the So
ciety of US common mortals anyway.
The mattresses at the Wiley camps
are usually school teachers or college
girls out for pleasant vacation and
to earn little money besides. They
are always given a free trip about
the Park at the end of the season.
There are $50 of the big yellow sight
seeing BUSES in the Park and they are
driven mainly by college students who
earn considerable money. One fell
low showed me handful of silver he
had received as tips that day. He
must have received eight or ten dol
lars in tips besides his wages. They
say those young fellows get rid of
most of their money shooting craps.
At night after supper is over, the big
log camp fire is always lighted and
the folks gather round and sing. Great
pans of pop corn are passed around
and then good program is rendered,
the talented mattresses and the clever
college boys singing, reading, or Civ
ing playlets. At the Canyon Falls
camp, Chief Red Cloud, Sioux, who
was raised and educated at Carlisle
by Buffalo Bill gave the Sioux war
dance in costume. After the enter
tainments, there is always a dance,
the music being furnished by the camp
orchestra.
One always enjoys the bears at the
park. There are plenty of them,
great black bear and the cinnamon
bear with an occasional grizzly. There
must be just hundreds of bears in the
park and they must not be disturbed.
Uncle Sam takes good care of his
wards, and they have learned to fear
nothing. They do not make the best
pets in the world but they are really
not very dangerous. In fact they
are real friendly old fellows, especial
ly if they smell ham or some sugar
in an automobile. One fellow had
some candy in his auto where the
bears could not get at it. The own
er found his car next morning, big
Cadillac with the upholstering all torn
out. One fellow told me that the night
before he heard racket around his
car. He got out of his tent, careful
not to disturb his wife, just in time
to see a big bear crawl out of the car.
He went back to bed, heard another
racket end found three bears prowl-
ing around his car. He saw a porcu-
pine under his car and the next morn
ing found lot of quilts in the tire.
There is one bear in the park they
call Hobo. He meets about every
passing auto, stands in the middle Of
the road and holds up the car until
somebody feeds him, then he scampers
ont INTO tho woods lSuoLoSS