Show I URGE LARGE BU BULL ELK Eft BESIEGES HOTEL I Manager and Guests Are ComI Compelled Com Corn I to Use Only the Back Door DEFIES FORCE OF SOLDIERS I i Tuli ii las la's I PI v Pi-v of m I hit Hilt 3 I In Lc Ic sl su p II liu IIO t iii Tatal tu I. I 1 For roi twenty four hours the thc sooty snow hail had Call fallen n at al Mammoth ami aini at al r. r o'clock on the evening II in iii question fully three feet covered the lie format formation Ion Robert Edgar Elgar better belter known to the whites o as Geyser Bob Boh and amid to the Indians as Big Dig Xo was forced to t tomake tomake make his trip with the thC snow now snowplow plow and anti a as In- In wung around the Ill Cottage hotel on tO time the night Hight run of hl his path pathfinder n er he espied a large bull elk eJk coming over the lie brow of the the hill hili Here was a chance to square up Ull for all lie tho tricks of or the thc cottage c pang gang which was WM given to using Geyser as a n butt of not noli not not-a a few Jokes Forgetting the dignity becoming a government go he lie hurried to the stable procured an armful of hay and re- re just as the elk reached the lie foot Coot of the hill hili and cast casl the ha hay In front I of or the lie front door of the hotel i The rhe elk not too loo proud to tickle lii hl hi throat with government dry tIl grass fell rell to lo It U was wa now S 5 30 and three of Uncle Santa Sam's trained and tried Philippine heroes came over I to chat and spend an nn hour As S they appt ap- ap pt cached the elk ell he ho tossed his twelve points took tool a few Cew steps forward and the soldiers seeing that he lie meant business Immediately made for Cor the barracks it at once becoming a point of Interest F E el ml Soi-ks Soi Bark nu Door HoOl Assistant Sup Superintendent ent Joseph DC Do DoBar Bar came for tm dinner For Fin ten eu years cirs Joe Juc had hull not tint gone off urr a walk lIe He- I struggled lell along through the lie snow anon 1 head down n until Providence PIo bade hade him hini lo look k UI up TIe He obeyed and not hot I nty iwi-nty wInt feet In lii ft Clont out of him hin the lie elk IIi was mal making ready to charge Joe JOl charged first I I. I Madly he plowed through the now v. flOW made malle a hundred hundred- yard rani detour and and- entered the cottage collage through the back door S Child ChillI and G G. Koger Hoger 1 Pryor followed in Joes Joe's wat wake vahe t and it Is 11 1 doublI doubtful doubt doubt- t I ful fLu if it even wIzen when younger the they ex- ex ceded eded the thc speed record set II by DC I Bar When old John the he watchman on came cameI I Joe was wa on 1111 the porch to give dir cc- cc t 1105 Come right t along John I Ill I'll II keep him 1110 busy With tit that Joe step step- pod forth armed with bottles stove stove- wood and ancI pieces es o of coal rhe The second throw landed and NIC- NIC elk U enraged sprang forward fur Jo for or the second lIml In ten en years exceeded ed a walk sprung sprung- for lit tho door while old John male made haste hasle to tu fin find the th back door dool to 0 which a fa fairly It I good trail was being rapidly made niale PI OI i jh loll theory theon that lint the elk ell want wanted anted ed ol Iwa Campbell Camp j bell LIcit of or tho thu cottAge collate c ll to to ser o It 1111 i rushed the tho can to to- tile the ed edge e of or the porch The elk ell disdained water and dashed upon the tho porch Campbell ioU d I In ii had bad ni-il ni ci stumbled arid 1111 fell Tho rhio crowd Inside bin away in Campbell Camphell alone Finding himself um on his kunes kne Camp Camp- 1 11 uttered II a prayer to In which ph responded The Thc ell oik foil fell over tl tho pall Instantly both sere up UI and If off lit together The elk cU reached Campbell c. ju Just juitt t in Iii time line to set get two prongs Into hl his leg Campbell threw himself against the he door It gave in and he wait waA saved ed No o more mOIe attempts wore were I made by civilians to pacify the elk oik ll 1110 r Arc n Called Out I In Iii response to a hurry Up call to Fort Yellowstone a d detachment of five soldiers arrived via Ia the tho hills lulls and the thc I now popular door back route The elk chIc had stationed himself on the lie I Porch not three feet feel from thc tue door Fully twenty blanks were fired ll I at him and amid burning paper offered him All AllIn AllIn In 11 vain i would he lie accept pl ho hospitality hos 1105 nor nor depart Twenty three an all exorcism of lh the independent was even en yc yelled II e 1 lJ by every lI em ono one It in ill chorus the he dinner hell bell wa WUI Iun rung In his lila tac face fac but bul he lie was vas immovable Bel Being ug I Imprisoned ond with wilh tho the wa cli- cli ful Cui guard just outside the he door all went to bed betl early At All 30 a traveling salesman ale man with a u lantern arrived 11 Ho lie Housed used all arts known to the thc knights of th the road lid hIS cooed and praised tho ho hoelk elk ell he swore anti and threatened him but the tho noble beast boost remained sive With happy thought the salesman salesman sales sales- man tried something now new With the lantern he gave SU the tho elk elJ the time signal to back up but the thc elk had been hen henIn In the mountains mountain so MO long that ho lip was wasa a lit little I li rusty on signals a and nil took tool ii it for fm a I challenge rh Tho rho drummer r In Instantly In- In staidly obey obeyed tl the tho signal signa a and amid II tIme the way waybe he be backed up is still sUIl being talked of ot ofIn ofin otIn in the park All An night long Jong the elk ell walked v the tho porch Iotch and occasionally just to assert his authority h ho lie broke bloke a window or 01 so With Vilh daylight he hut withdrew to the rear Ioor of or the building and finding all tracks leading inward Inwald again started start start- ed for tor his post in front On Omi the tho re return ye- ye turn journey Journ h he Ht stopped stepped Into a small geyser hole and broke bloke his lc leg A Al At l 8 15 a soldier put hUt hIm him out of his misery with a 0 shot ending the reign of the tho tyrant tyran Montana t.-Montana Montana Record I |