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Show PIMifi TIE TEETH OF THEJLK "If you wero to travel 100 miles in tho Yellowstone National park today you would not see a single bear," said Harry Taylor of Rexburg, Idaho, this morning. "They aro nil in their holes where they spond tho winter. Tho snow is two feet deep on the divide between Thumb and tho Old Faithful Inn. Bears hibernate in tho winter, you know, and they have sure crawled in. before this. There might be some of the cubs that have slipped titiy iiuiii luuu iicata uuu luuia uiuiu- ers," hanging around some of tho abandoned eating places in tho middle of the day when the sun Is warm, but you will not see an old bear out of tho hole. "The hears find plenty of caves in which to sleep through the winter and the forty odd head of the park aro good and fat for the hlber- 1 nating season. I have been feoding theso forty fellows during tho senson i and I know how they have been fccpL "Plenty to eat? well, I should say so. They can eat more slop than tho 'great blg hogs, believe mo. Wo haul all the garbage of the hotels and eat- 1 ing places to the bears and they fight like hogs over it. Sometimes they get mad at tho fellow who Is feeding them and If they get a good swipe at him with their paws they tear a little muscle loose from- the short ribs. They do not vcrv often get mad, I though. I 'There are vory few elk in the park but there are many of them down in tho Jackson Hole .country and I want to tell of something that is downright mean and unfair. You know there is a , sort of craze in the country for elk teeth. There are those who think the elks wero made for them In particular par-ticular and lots of them, vJslting in the elk country, wjll catch elk on tho range with a rope thov arc gentlo i and easily lassoefl throw them down i and pull the big fine teeth. They use f the teeth for cuff buttons, watch fobo I and other ornaments. Tho poor elk ! Is turned loose with bjs best teeth I gone and ho has ,i mighty hard time pulling through the winter. No won- der they have a hard '(line getting through, and It is no wonder that the people have to furnish food for them in the Jackson Hole country. They ought not let the hunters pull the teeth." Mr Taylor will remain In Ogden a few days when he will accompanv a party to the Oregon country to look at some farm land that they figure ton buying He has spent the past fifteen years In tho National park, piloting excursion parties and aiding In keeping the bears and other animals. ani-mals. He says tho tourist travel Is becoming extensive and that it is Only a question of a short time when better bet-ter traveling facilities will havo to be furnished. |