Show A BEAUTIFUL POMPADOUR chased by a grizzly an engineers hair stands on end several days ago STANDARD contained a bear story which ie acknowledged to bo the prize winner of the aea son the hero of eliat story was a southern engineer as ig the chief actor in the following froin alio san francisco examiner george F leidig the proprietor of grants springs hotel mariposa county who arrived here a day or two ago says that game of all kinds is very plentiful in hie vicinity and a few miles away in the high mountains the bears are as numerous as has been known for some years while grouse pheasants and quail swarm everywhere mr leidig has been in the hotel business for more alian twenty years in call fornia and tens of thousands of people have met him 1 I have known of some curious bilings in reference to the varied wild game of mariposa he said to chief clerk george warren and one or two others as he leaned over alie counter arid toyed with the leaves of the register but I 1 never knew of a stranger thing than happened to my son george and stage driver joe of the yosemite line some time since Georgo you know is engineer on the central pacific railroad on the division between wells and carlin well lie and ridgeway thought they would go up dabove glacier point one day and have a look around you know that to get to glacier point you must climb about feet and do it all in but little more than a couple of miles its a hard task and when you get up there you look sheer down as if it were from a balloon upon alio world before you is spread the waterfalls of the merced river capped cones of the sierras and every tiling to make up a garden of wonders probably in tho world does not exist a grander sight it is within the confines of the celebrated mariposa grant to which alio dauntless explorer colonel john 0 fremont once had a title but which ho finally lost after much litigation this was for many years known as the home of large numbers of grizzlier grizzlies grizz lies alio most formidable to be found anywhere since there were so many of them not all alio hunters that have gone into that region have succeeded in wiping them out when george and joe biad finally succeeded in getting to the top and had gazed upon the panorama before them they started to the south on a shoulder of the mountain they biad not proceeded far when them were indications of bears their great tracks were visible in soma places along the trail and they kept a sharp eye out for them they thou glit without noticing much eliat they were alie tracks of blas bears there were some birds and altogether the boys were enjoying themselves just as they began to descend a winding knoll on the ridge they heard a thrashing in the bushes as of some one whaling them with a long club the two biad become separated was where he could get the best view and he suddenly caught eight of a big grayish black object tying on a log ho knew at once that it was a grizzly and ho let fly at him whether lie hit him or not was never found out but immediately there was more thrashing and a shriek from the bear that made the tall pine trees ring alien there began a journey of that bear towards george it was rapid for a grizzly can run like a wild buffalo unwieldy as lie looks could see eliat lie biad sniffed george or caught a glimpse of him through the bussies and lie yelled to him to look out alie grizzly was after liim then he took to his heels himself george biad scarcely got the warning when the bear was almost upon him lie turned anddew down the mountain it was a terrible race now it would look aa though george would evade the bear and then it would appear that there was no escaping his paws george zigzagged over trees and through bushes tho bear still after him and finally fell down through a rocky declivity whore for a time he lay half dead the great bruto had finally given up the chase luckily for the young man lie was aft erand at length ridgoway Hid goway got to george and helped liim to stand up now here a strange discovery was made to which I 1 want to call your attention you have bieard of peoples leair turning white in a night as though a man had lived a lifetime in a few hours when george got down to my place ills hair which had since his birth lain flat on his licad stood up like stubble as though it was waxed and combed more than that it stayed for two weeks before he could get it down to where it was formerly the terrible race lie biad biad the bear biad caused it we all took notice of it and talked about it during the whole two weeks I 1 suppose this may seem to some and chev may not believe it but it is entirely true gothing any of us could do during the fortnight would make tho leair stay down george is as bravo as anybody but he help knowing alie awful danger he waa in and when his hair rose up alie of the danger was great and remained so long with him that it took this length of time for it to get down again since then he is having no use for bears especially grizzlier grizzlies grizz lies and familiar with alio dangerous race lie had do not at all wonder at it denver this afternoon governor appeared before the joint assembly and delivered hi retiring message it was devoted entirely to a review of the fatato finances and the management of the state lands and public institution LUto kt |