Show THAT MONSTER MB bin clr CIr CHARLES ARLES C bich RICH jun jum of paris rich county called upon us yesterday morning havin having recently arrived from bear lake valley vailey valley vailey he reports that valley free from grasshoppers with every prospect of good crops he informs us that the bear lake monster has bas been once more moro seen by a young man named marion thomas and three sons of phineas H cook they were on the lake in a boat fishing opposite swan creek and bro thomas thomaa saw something on the water which at the distance he thought was waa a duck and remarking tor to the boys that he be guessed there was the monster commenced rowing towards it they stood up in the boat and told him that it wab waa the monster and besought him to stop his rowing as they were somewhat alarmed but he kept on when they shouted to him to turn his hia head bead and doing so sure enough about four rods from the boat there ther e lay the monster the boys were so frightened that they threatened to jump from the boat if he did not stop rowing they had seen the monster before and were very much alarmed but ibro bro thomas had bad never dever seen iland was one of the strongest un believers in its existence and it was this skepticism which had bad impelled him to row in opposition to their wishes towards the supposed duck he describes its head bead as serpent shaped he saw about twenty feet of its body which was covered with bair hair or fur something like an otter and light brown it had two flippers extending from the upper part of the body which he compared to the blades of his oars he was so near it that if he bad had a rifle he could have shot it we think that this ought to squelch all doubts that may have existed heretofore in the minds of any of our people in respect existence of the monsters in bear lake it has had that effect on many of the people there heretofore the testimony of many men of unimpeachable character has been given that they had been eyewitnesses eye witnesses to the existence of these creatures bu bui but t none of them that we are aware of ever got near enough to describe them with any degree of accuracy accurse v and owing to slight real or seeming incongruities in their descriptions the bear lake monster has been regarded by many more as a myth than in any other light bro thomas was one of this class but he is now thoroughly convinced that his doubts were groundless and having had an opportunity of inspecting it so closely as to be able to describe it with some degree of accuracy we think his testimony combined with those which have preceded him should do away with the doubts of the most skeptical we should think after this that some of the ente enterprising r ri sing bing and adventurous citizens of rich bieh R ac ph county would devise plans and means of eap cap capturing turin one of these denizens of their beautiful lake e it would certainly be a great haul and would bo be worth considerable trouble |