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Show GRIZZLY BEAR FROM ASIA Something Like Million Years Ago the Animal Came Here by J Way of Alaska. - 1 The grizzly bear has been known to the white race a little more than a century. cen-tury. Lewis and Clark wrote the lirst official accounts of him in 1805, and he was first discussed publicly In 1814 by Gov. De Witt Clinton in New York city. Guthrie's old geography says that he was named Ursus horribilus by Naturalist Natur-alist George Ord In 1815. Fossil records rec-ords Indicate that the grizzly is of Asiatic origin. He appears to have come into America about a million ' years ago over one of the preh.storic ' j land bridges that united Alaska and Asia. Bears and dogs are descendant from the same parent stock. The grizzly griz-zly bear never eats human flesh, is not ferocious and fights only in self-de- ; fense. He leads an adventurous life, . Is a born explorer and ever has good wilderness manners never makes attacks. at-tacks. The numerous cases in which 1 , the grizzly has been made a pet and i companion of man, where he was thoughtfully, intelligently raised, show him to be a superior animal, dignified, intelligent, loyal and uniformly good tempered. Not a grizzly exists in any of the four national parks of California, and that animal, once so celebrated in that state, Is extinct there. He is also ex-tinct ex-tinct over the greater portion of the (. vast territory which he formerly oc- j cupied, and is verging on extermina- ' tlon. j |