The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-12-08


j huhl" returned Old Bill. @And if tn
laundering fool had hid out few
barrels Of ticker then it would b
worth by this time more figures thai
there are in the third part Of arith
metic."
A certain girl is sure all worried
'neyerythin about the bank with
which she deals here in town. The
other day said girl wrote check for
some ten or twelve dollars and it was
returned to her marked "no funds.
Now she thinks the bank must be in
bad shape.
John and Jim were two husky
brothers who lived out in the hills.
They had attended school but little
and could not read and could not
count. One day they went to the
state fair, where a fakir persuaded
John to buy watch. Late that ev-
eninx, while John and Jim were driv-
ing hbme, Jim suddenly recovered
from a deep silence and asked: What
time is it, joint" John pulled out
his new watch and opened it, and
turning its face toward Jim, said,
"Jim, here she be-" Jim studied the
face of the watch minute and then
answered. "Derned II she amt, Johnp
"You have heard / presume" said
Old Bill Misgivens, "about the way
meat is preserved by cold. The fact
10 that just ~ long ~ It il completely |
frozen it will remain in = perfect
state Of preservation. Jed Peters !
went up into Alaska several years
.go hunting for gold. He and two or
.hree other men heard some rumor
about some rich dig9ings away in
he interior and started out to hunt
or it. Well, after they had hunted
lround for . couple Of months they
an out Of grub and finally they had
o kill their dogs and eat them. When
hey had cleaned the bones Of the
asst dog and were still . thousand |
niles4r so from any place where they
ouid get any more food, they just
decided that they we're up
gainst it hard and with mighty little
nance to ever get out alive. Jed
Did me afterward that he just nAtu-
ally figured that he never would see
ONE again and pictured himself froz-
n stiff up there, maybe not to be dis
,vered for a hundred years when
,me other fool might come that way
uniting for gold. He said that look
X around he noticed queer kind Of
mound of ice. 1t was shaped like
a enormous polar bear. He called
lie attention Of his only surviving
Lige Bungstarter, to the
lrious ice formation and Lige sug-
ssted that they blow it open and see
hat WAS inside Of it. They had >
lmber Of sticks Of dynamite with
lem and they drilled hole into one
de of the ice mound, put in stick
I'd touched it off. Right there they
1t the surprise Of their lives. Inside
that Ice was = prehistoric polar
,ar shout twice the size Of modern
,lar bear, and full grown modern
liar bear often weighs toA It
emed that this prehistoric bear had
'en caught In an ice drift and frozen
solid. Jed, who is something e u
udent Of geology and such things -
ut, figured from the number II iee
ngs and the kind Of ice, that this
'ehistoric bear had been caught in
is drift about $4,000 years ago and
ID been moved from where Il was
iginally caught by glacier which
~ hurrying along south at rate Of
{ feet . year. When Jed and Lige
Nv up the ice PACK that was around
at bear it woke him out Of $4,000
ar sleep. Jed said the bear was
in and awkward from its long mac
IN. but it staggered to its feet and
gan to look around to see, what dis
rhed it. Then he said it let out .
ar that you could have heard for
lies. Both Jed and Lige fred at the
me time; they both had their high
'wered guns with them and fortu-
Itely they got that prehistoric bear
e first shot They skinned the ami
II and Jed declares that the hide
- big enough to cover house of
binary size. They skirmished
ound and got enough brush together
make 4 fire and cooked up = din
r Of bear meat. Jed says that It
n nearly ~ tender as is the meat of
young rabbit, Having been in cold
orage for $4,000 years the meat
turally was more tender than II it
d been taken from modern bear.
ell, the two Of them loaded up with
ehistoric bear meat and oil and
arted for civilization. The hide was