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1903-08-22
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Page 6. CRAQ and CANYON. Saturday, Aug. 22, 1903; n nQuraran uen counKE - Biggest Coward on Four Legs in the Rockies. Of all the wild beasts that live among the Rocky mountains there is none of more powerful, alert or savage appearance than the huge cat like animal known as the Mountain lion. He bears a strong resemblance to the tiger both in size and looks and sometimes in habits. He has a lithe, muscular body, powerful forepaws, large mouth, teeth ugly and sharp, and jaws that seem to have no limit of strength. He can move suddenly, swiftly and quietly and is capable of concealing himself within springing distance of prey or antagonist. He lacks but one thing to make himself a terror to all other beasts in the same domain, and that is courage. He is the most pitiable coward that ever roamed the wilds on four legs, He is dangerous only to colts, calves and dead horses. One or two of these man eaters used to meow about our cabin, but not one of the half dozen of the experienced miners there paid any attention to them,.nor was there a gun iii the camp. None of us had any fear of going down the guloh through the timber for the mails and supplies, usually alone and after dark. Their yowls which sound like those of atom cat in a barrel give you the creeps but what of that? So does the filing of a saw. In winter we might have carried a gun after dark, but not it wo had a load to bring back. Under like circumstances I have known that same enlarged backyard cry to cause a party of tenderfeet thoroughly informed as to their danger to sit up all night between two huge fires clothed in firearms and gooseflesh. The account of their narrow eseape no doubt made thrilling reading matter, one page of which, blowing languidly down the gulch, would have made the cause of it adjourn to the next township. I never heard of anyone l.eing hurt by a Mountain lion. In fact. t he only case I know of where any of the cat tribe attacked a man was on the headwaters of the Troublesome in the summer of 1891. A wild cat the common twenty-pound bob tail suddenly leaped from a tree down on to the shoulders of' a range rider. It scratched him up a little and he killed it with a club. That Alberta Hotel. RHTE, 1.50 PER DAY. Five minutes walk from Depott and twenty minutes walk from Cave and Basin Sulphur baths. Lately Renovated Throughout.. Livery in Connection. FRANK RICKS, Prop. 1 New and Fresh Goods. such a thing was very unusual may be and there is not a beast, no matter how small, that roams the same territory, but would block his path with impunity. Chauncey Thomas a writer of wild animal stories has this to say, of the Rocky Mountain lion, in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post: As for the Mountain lion, there is not a greater coward in the wes , not excepting the valiant coyote. A twenty I uha dog ckn run any Mountain lion up a tree; and he will become nothing Jbc but a yellow streak of retreat before an ordinary ram, even though hungry and with a fat lamb to be bad for the taking. judged from the fact that the incident was told of for a hundred miles in every direction, and was accounted for only on the assumption that the cat whs mad; that is, a case of animal insanity. Danger is like a rumor or a river; the closer you get to its source the smaller it becomes. It is the same with the bear and the Mountain lion. In roaming over the wildest regions of the Rockies there is but one real danger: that of getting hurt and no one finding you till too late, perhaps never. A sprained ankle, a broken, leg, puts the lone hunter in more danger than all the ars and Mountain lions whose bad reputations on paper .ever made the tenderfoot's teeth eh.-i-ttor or turned his ft jut p into a pincushion. Banff's One Price House. All kinds of Groceries and Gen- eral Merchandise. Large Variety of Patterson's High Grade Biscuits. Choice Chocolates just, received JOHN WALKER. EXPRESS FOR HIRE CSitL, Pood and Ice delivered to any part of the town. General Draying. F. BE7.TTIE. *
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