Show IDAHO MEN FIGHT BEAST BULLET PROOF ANIMAL CAUSE OF GREAT TERROR IN QUIET STILL TALK OF THE GIANT great creature trees in its it teeth ard lift rock rocks weighing ton tons say two sober citizen citizens frozen dog 1 I laho the people ot of this quiet 1 aa as they gather around dreir firesides fi still I 1 talk of ot the monster seen by two men in the hills near mendota it was first be n by joseph cliffe ami rind walt I 1 they were on a hunting trip in alje north basin when they came upon tin the hideous moi ster As described ly them and other others who BAW saw it latu least beast bears no re Beni mem blenco blence tu to any ether other animal extinct tr in existence cliffe and gifford were following the trail through tile dense forest of the hasin last monday and bad reached a point near grizzly gulch when a tro tre bellow echoed from tha depths of the gulch and caused them to halt tremblingly ir aa As they pearel beere t toward the point from whence the noise came an immense pair of horns brownin crow nin a it lizard like bead of oua OUs size appeared above the edge deep bet set in the creature a 8 slimy bond a pair of great round eyes glist ened with ath a terrifying light the hunters nearly to death and not caring to make closer acquaintance with the strange animal beat a wild retreat to the top of north mountain arriving there they baited halted out ot of breath and looked down furtively into the gulch taij creature with head bead still darting hither and thither almost filled th tha 3 gulch with ita its colossal b bak ik ita its boly bo ly resembling somewhat that t a was sheathed with slimy scales und antl all along tho la bac were ranged a row of bony spikes the forelegs were shaped like liko theao of a borso horse though only half halt the size the hind legs thirty feet fee in length and aa as big around as a good sized pine tree were ilka those of an ostrich A kang adoo liko like tall SO 80 feet long stretched tta its length down doan the bed of the gulch gaining courage cliffe raised his 45 90 and aimed at the mona teis head bead pull ed the trigger ills alm 1 was true I 1 beast bears no to any other animal enough bu but the tho billets force was half ball spent before it reached the mark the budens a with ith the animals animal a hea I 1 was forceful enough however to arouse rouse its ire and anti cause it to thrash about about wildly great rent rocks wet gLIng tons ton were dis lodged 9 by the argro flourish ings of the beast trees to tuo feet through afro gripped in the snapping maw and made into kindling wood ly ty the things thing a sharp teeth cliffe wat was paring to take another shot when the animal leaped to the top of the guch as if it hot from a catapult and bounded much after the fashion of a kangaroo up the trail A wild race followed in which the bei t caino I 1 with evera leap until the ter rifle I 1 hunters gained thY bordering trout creek here the thi thickness ekness of the timber slackened the pace of 0 the pursuing monster and made possible the escape of cliffe and gifford Olf ford who reached town in an in exhausted condl tion A posse scoured the bill hill country and onre once or twice saw the strange beast at a creat great distance |