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Show REPORTING THE AMAZING ACTIVITIES OF THE BEAR LAKE MONSTER "The Indians have a tradition concerning a strange, creature serpent-lik- e in- habiting the waters of Bear Lake, which they say carried off some of their braves many moons ago. Since then, they will not sleep close to the lake. Neither will they swim in it, nor let their squaws and papooses bathe in it. Now, it seems, this water devil, as the Indians called it, has again made an appearance. A number of our white settlers declare they have seen it with their own This Bear, Lake eyes. Monster, they now call it, is causing white settlers a great deal of excitement up here. S.M.' Johnson at South Eden, was riding along near the Lake the other day when ; he saw something a number of yards out in the lake which he thought was the body of a man. He waited for the waves to wash it in, but to his surprise, found the water washed over it without causing it to move. Then he saw it had a head and neck like some strange animal. On each side of the speed almost incredible to Mr. Davis their senses. a locosaw never he says motive travel faster, and thinks it made a mile a minute. In a few minutes after the discovery of the first, a second followed in its wake, but seemed much smaller, appearing to Mr. Sleight about the size of a horse. A larger one followed this, and so on until - LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE herby given that Stacey is requesting a variance on a building site on township 9N., range 7E. , section 21, Salt Lake Notice LEGAL NOTICE of the Copy 1 is Wayne G. Revenue Sharing Report and sup- -: basin, meridian. docume- -" are ava- porting ntation liable at the City Office, Garden City, Utah for public insp- four large ones in all and six smaller ones had run southward out of sight. One of the large ones, ection on CHARLES C. RICH Charles Carlson Rich was 54 when he was given the task of settling the Bear Lake Valley by Brigham Young. On September 15, 1863, with 32 men, 2 wagons and a cart they set out on their mission from Franklin, Idaho. Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 4 p. before disappearing, made a sudden turn to the west a short distance, then back to its former track. At this turn Mr. Sleight says he could distinctly see it was a brown color. They could judge somewhat of the speed by observing known distances on the opposite side of the lake; and all agree that the velocity with which these monsters propelled themselves, was astounding. They represent m., or by appointment. Carmen Madsen Town Clerk Charles Rich was a polygamist, husband of six wives for each of which he built a cabin. He was the father of 51 children. the waves rolling upon on each side as about three feet high. This is substantially their statement as they told me. Messrs. Davis and Sleight are prominent The settlement of Bear Lake in 1863 was the direct result of the 1862 Homestead Act which offered 160 acres for a token fee to new settlers. In April 1864, Rich walked on snowshoes to Cache Valley in order to get to Salt Lake for the general Latter Day Saints Conference. Over the years he completed this journey 13 times. ( SUEETIJATER 111RINA) men, well known in the country, and all of them are reliable persons whose is undoubted. veracity head were ears or bunches have no doubt they would the size of a pint cup. He be to make afwilling concluded the body must fidavits to their be touching the bottom of statements. the lake. By this time, Was it fish, flesh, or serhowever, Johnson seems to have been leaving the pent? Amphibious, or a big fib? I place so rapidly he failed to give up, but just live in hopes of observe other details. some day seeing it. The next day, three women and a man saw a NEED NEW SHOES? monstrous animal in the See your authorised lake near the same place; lhaon Shoe Dealer, but this time it was swimAeel Hitt eon. He has ming at an incredible speed. According to their 375 styles and colostatement, it was moving rs for both fisn and faster than a horse could woman Chose froa I . . , ' ' ' V . J'. am-fabulo- run. "On Sunday last, N.C. Davis and Allen Davis of St. Charles; Thomas Sleight and James Codings of Paris, with six women were returning from Fish Haven when about midway from the latter place to St. Charles, their attention was suddenly attracted to a peculiar motion of waves on the water about three miles distant. The lake was not rough, only a little disturbed by the wind. Mr. Sleight says he distinctly saw the sides of a very large animal that he would suppose to be not less than 90 feet in length. Mr. Davis doesnt think he saw any part of the body, but is positive it must not have been less than forty feet in length, judging by the waves it rolled up on both sides of it as it swam, and the wave it left in the rear. It was going south, and all agreed it swam with a WE WIU. DE ALL then. 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