The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-23
GIANT GRIZZLY
ON HONEY SPREE
BRUIN BREAKS INTO MANY GLA-
CIERS HOTEL; DAMAGE
Is $1,000
Broke Thousand Pieces OF China and
Glassware In Hurting Plumber Out
Of Window and Smashed Another
Window to Get Out of the Place He
Had Burglarized.

A bear burglar came down out OF
the mountain in Glacier park recent.
ly and demonstrated to the National
park bureau that there is more truth
than poetry in the old aphorism, ut
is better to divide your honey with
a bear than to provoke it's anger"
But. Uncle Sam will not place free
slopes to ave hotels in the park from
burglar bears.
Tired of a long summer of herb
aceous diet and bent upon a honey
spree, a huge marauding grizzly bear
broke into the commodious kitchen
of the mammoth Many Glaciers hotel,
which had been closed for the sea-
son. During the height of his Sweet
spree" the bear created a scene of in
discriminate destruction for which
movie producers would have paid a
large sum to film.
The bear shattered a thousand
pieces of china and glassware, broke
a hundred panes of glass by hurting
out plumber which he evidently in
tended to carry to his winter cache,
and otherwise clawed property dam
age estimated by the hotel manage
ment at $4,000.
The broken glass from smashed
honey jars and china and other debris
when swept up made five wagon
loads for the dump.
The bear entered through the
main entrance, with true western
daring, as if he felt entitled to be-
come the last guest of the season. He
broke off a heavy shutter and then
threw his huge weight against the
main door within, smashing the
hinges. He took hams and bacon
strips out of the icebox, tore down
scattering glassware and
wishes. He passed on into the cafe
and ruined five sacks of flour
and four bags of sugar by breaking
them open, and mixed the contents
on the floor. In this mixture he
just to scratch his back.
Evidently he forgot how he got
into the cafeteria, for he smashed a
window to get out. He broke SO
Danes of glass and a number Of sashes
n forcing an exit and it was evident
rom bloOdstains on the stills and the
ground that he jumped Is feet to
ground in making his getaway.
The bear made his expedition into
hotel on the morning of October
%. The taste of the honey was too
to be resisted the next night,
Ind he ventured back on a second
aid. Curill McGills, the Waterman,
made the alarming discovery
If the first visit, was in waiting for
he forager in the kitchen, armed
With a high-power rifle.
1t was an intense moment for the
when he threw on all the
lights, Illuminating the huge
for the encounter. He found
3ruin in a hallway, between the kit
hen and the cafeteria, on his haun-
hes, shaking his massive head from
ide to side in an alarmingly defiant
nanner. The bear roared and 1unged J
onward, but the Waterman took !
uick aim and sent a bullet through
he animals neck. The bear fell
ying, his immense body striking
gainst a large box, which collapsed !
nder the weight.
The bear was a giant silver tipped l
rizzly and measured Z feet 9 inches
tip to tip. Superintendent j.. {
!. Eakin of Glacier park took pos s
ession of the pelt, which the Ma !
.onal parks bureau probably will 6
ispose of as an exhibit for the {
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