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Show Salt Laker Outsprints Bear of Too Friendly Attentions BEARS is bears." Nephi Y". Cottani of Salt Lake is risht apt to allow if you question him on the subject. "Y'hat he tells you he learned from experience. At that, she seemed a lriendiy sort of an overtrrown honev-hunter, honev-hunter, witli hi"- brown eve.s and a foolish s-rin when he me'; her one lovely moriiinr- in Yellowstone park. In fact, it was the beautv of the niorninsr which led to the encounter. Mr. Cottam was just naturally enjoying, enjoy-ing, and what the bear was doing oniy she could fli. But whatever it was she dropped it to euftaee her I new- friend In play or conversation, or 1 otherwise. t Mr. Cottam regarded the lartre j lady, beheld her inrth and sinews, to say nothine of her uninanicurvd nails. Not wishinu- to be impolite, he exchanged ex-changed "-lances, but the hypnotic stuff was old to the sophisticated Mrs. Grizzly. There beiiiir nothin": further to detain him. Mr. Cottam departed thence, at once. He was not to thus abruptly sever an acquaintance but besun. He had company in bis flig-ht eompanv that kept ripht close to him. "But when tha uphiil grade was reached, 'the bulk of bruin proved too much of a handicap and the friendship was dissolved by safe yards. Curious tourists encountered Mr. Cottam. learned the tale, and sou.eht to find the outdistanced bear to photograph pho-tograph her. In this they had no difficulty. Their near troubles started when the bear found them. Thev, too, were compelled for urnent reasons rea-sons to go away from there without delay. All told their stories later to park deputies, and these latter averred that they had been searchinir for this particular animal in order to relieve re-lieve the park tf the undesirable attentions she sought to pay to tourists tour-ists and such like friendly persons. Mr. Cottam didn't know yesterday whether the deputies have recently enjoyed hear steak or not. He merely hopes so. |