Deseret Evening News | 1902-01-27 | Page 1 | An Idaho Monster at Large

0 AN IDAHO MONSTER AT LARGE LARUE Queer Story of People Said to nave Have Been Frightened by a Long LongHaired Haired Creature in Human Form Special Correspondence Ida Jan A letter from Idaho Id Jan 14 contains a 0 startling rumor of ot having been visited by b an nn covered hu human human man monster while a n party of ot young I people were rA skating on Portneuf river II In the tho field ot of John Gooch The creature showed tight fight and flourishing n II large stick and giving vent to n u series of ot yells ells attacked the skaters but It be being ing Blow IIlo of DC movement they regained their wagons and got away In safety A party of young oung men Inen returned armed Rot tOI a good food view of at monster warming himself by thc tho lire fire they thoy had loft The Thc beast l enst was at leant eight feet high covered with long reddish brown hair the face tace way hidden by Immense e bushy whiskers and no part of oC the naked skin was to be seen Been except a 0 small spot put above tho eyes The boys concluded c not to tu bag the game that night nigh Measurements the following morning showed the tracks to measure long by b Inches broad with the Imprint of ot only onh four toes Th t stockmen report having seen similar tracks track along the Ihl range west of ot the river but ns IR far an known no on has hR ever lVer before seen slen the animal who was trekking westward The rho people feeling unsafe while this beast Iv III at It large have sent some so 0 twenty men on on UK II trail to effect Its capture are referred to John Juhn Gooch who was on n the scene Icene from the appearance oll to the tho disappearance of ot the th monster