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Show GRIZZLY BEAR FROM ASIA H Something Like s Million Yesrs Age H ths Animsl Csmt Here by H Wsy of Alssks. H The frizzly hour has been known to M the white race n Utile more limn s ceu- M tury. Lewlfl mid 'lurk wrote the llrst H Official account of him In 180ft, ntid lie M wiiH Irat dtacaaasd puhllcl in ism by H GOT, lv Witt Clinton in New York iity. M QttthrtO'l old geography snvs thnt lis M wan named UrUVB horrlhlliiH by Nutur- M nllst QoOffO Ord In 1810 Kosh rec- H 1 :11s ini.iiriiie nun (lie gri..i.v in 01 aaaa Asiatic origin. He appears to luiMi M come Into America nhout 11 inlMloo H years ago over one of the prehistoric H Mini bridges (hat united Alaska and M Asia Bears lad dogs ure descendanta M Irnin the same parent stock. The griz- H ..lv bear never eats human llesh, Is not M ferocious ami fights only In self de- aH feme. Me lesds nn adventurous life, M In a born explorer mid ever bus good M wilderness manners never makes nl- M tacks. The numerous eases in which M 1 he grizzly has been made a pet and M companion of man, where he was M thoughtfully, intelligently raised, show M him to he a superior animal, dignified. H Intelligent, loyal and uniformly good H tempered. B Not 11 grlr..l exists In any of the H four tiPtlomil parks of California, and M Mint nn. mal. once sn celebrated In Hint. M state, In extinct there. Hi- is nlso ex M Urol over the greater portion of tha M vast territory which die formerly oc- iLV cupied, and is verging on extermlns- Lal |