The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1904, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. i 11 e — his State, es the followers of the rod not appre what e way ” =~ club is open to the public. It was built tc White Clou at the suggestion of the many sports- and get some 1 and Fallen Leaf lakes good fishing. The arge as on the big Back of these men who have heretofore had to camp fish <o net run a in tkat locality. fi@i@» R ~ O )/ { )R e)®) ! In the same & ion of the country is >ther ~ Lake Tahoe, one of the finest fresh > hunting habit water fishing grounds in the United aradise for the ind are State; Trout of the gamest to be taken from its waters. It is ig Meadows, ed tri really an ideal place. ‘Taking one of the a few nes are cast and the fun begi Under the southern § shade of the awning one can fish until fish and ga the noon hour. numb It If the trollirg line does not appeal the Japanese to the spor n he can rig up his in number I rod and line with & couple of trailers, that is, two small t »ons, and play for the big fish. W he gets a strike the skiff in which he is fishing from the steamer is cast off and he heart’s de- ing s can play his game to sire, for a good-sized out on Tahoe is not the st thing in the world to land with a light rod. Then comes the nconday fish. Who would not travel m S nte 1 s to 5 just such a f ? . be t 2 1t g their they The steamer is tied up to one of th h x pleasant stream landings around the lake and you go . : < Shine o SReN : ashore, where a fire is built and the g 2 - pthér and e frying pane®is put on. When it is hot " t & W about a roll of butter is melted and 2 shcing pe n > next comes the bacon, which is fried » a > R #bort Is to be found to a crisp. By this thme the fish have : h ar © be had in num- been taken out of the ca 1 a e 8 e cleaned and are ready f pan t ast (s taonih it In a few minutes they are served and S BN st i b you start eating, and how you do eat, , .ymon . . - in the clear air of the high Sierras! . 3 There are lots of other good th 2 . ; spread on the ground, they d: L : » g appeal to you as does trout. y (, . s : gus eat until you can eat no more. ; s = : ”‘t “" g comes a good cigar and a q s under a shady tree and then ready for the afternoe.. sport SR fishing. The results of you h you bood s 2 will have boxed up and e to ik - your friends, who are not as t 8 ® as you in visiting Tahoe : - ¢ bee ‘v While at Tahoe one can make a trip 3 s P < 1 i\ s /};’{ <SPHINX, ARADISE . ‘CANOY: \ FoNES RIVER CANON TRIR 1A . \ I \ hing can 1 i A A i . g hat Yos It . e . T rh % 2 P str to s T and many of the 5 th, and no Waddell, Pack tevens g and i hed any of m once and - EE — i f 2 R G S o e S . ag n California. N 1 66 | The \ i CHAMPION AR D | : . | 1 of Potter County f Y, . racamn — S —— — - - B — X (5 “ I ED [ nd T be- the bear merely shuffied iy to a lit- himself off at was left of Yap, cast 4 / oty D6 olaoe i Ghitn chesing ber near a contemptuous glance at the late dog's - / Bty A8 Uy an# tasaed tb wait for Y Old master and waddled off and out of / sight in the la v f ed act, mar nch wasn't only surprised. He % i 3 There never Was a smarter bear dog : M carried was sorry for the e believed p.n 0ld man French's Yap and there ; 1 4 man it must surely be a bear in pever was a deader one than he was st he died those woods, unacquai ith Yap. when that bear got off him. And I t . t, refus- Yap began his maneuvers to uncov- believed then, as I believe vet, that ng ’ at even a Pot- er the bear'’s tactics, but the bear, to What the bear did was a premeditated 1ld be smart the dog's evident surprise and to t act, ;h:wrmcl_\'land:uwesslullclly car- : ; . ried out as planned, but old -m: w, Ebent 91 hisiSog Yap /fisgust 0 okl Joke Erench,’ as et JrOulA natkemAve it 4t wa;.?' 2 i a few feeble passes at Yap and 11.’1 S Chicias Tattr \Ooish, 2 g Yap was a smart one, turned and began tp shin up a treb. 1 an P HE s th eseatant got over his surprise befo X ! man French ever NS master got over his disgust suffi- o i gl to reach for his gun and as the e f the greatest bear ttle Creek country great bear hunters were < . the Kettle Creek »se days as the bea g Yap as well a8 he was to the Bears hate dogs beyond everything else, and will f tly give up the way from the pur- the S.t“.‘f;!l,ll’!!l t is yelping nd taking 1 he comes up. ticularly Kettle Cre bears hate old me h's dog Yap, for they had found out that waiting to 2 a fall out of him always resulted e coming to gri out of him k he bear thus to take the fall, none of them ng been able to put up even a show of successful fight against him; co tly all their efforts to get the best of Yap having failed, they had taken to giving him a wide berth and kept right on going when they found that he was on their track. ¢h being the case, old man Fre couldn’t help being surprised the 4 nd Yap routed that big bear out of the laurel patch, not far from the mouth of the Little Kettle, whea him', moving without any show of pflfi&l}}’r raised clear of the ground ovn & ) his way up the tree, Yap made a g and closed his jaws tight on one benets Sttt ; T1RTINGy aronyEREY, Although the dog’s teeth were sunk ) < Toon & ZarinG : deep in the bear's flesh, the bear didn’t = ’ = ) A .‘)\fl‘ 53 Sazrrot flfiéfi[‘“_f PoyNPS stop or waver in his ascent, but climb- ed on as if nothing at all was worrying him. Yap held on, game dog that he was, determined that his adversary wasn't going to give him the slip in of Z .-ylwv that way. And the higher the bear \V climbed the tighter the dog gripped i @)} and the harder he tugged to make him (&,\- 4 come down. By and by Yap was swing- AN ing in the air, fifteen feet above the ground “This was\a better circus than old man French had®counted on after all and he roared and laughed until he tumbled off the stumy. “When the bear had climbed the low- er branches of the tree he stopped, looked back over his shoulder at Yap where he was swinging and tugging at the other end of the bear and then he let go his hold on the tree. He came down like a pile driver. When he struck bottom Yap was between him and the ground. o Wy “There was one faint yelp, and that 77 7 a7 was all. Three hundred pounds of bear e 1 / ; ~ : s CAZE. ’ had flattened out forty pounds of dog et LN oy 4 7 - ; g rve fl%?ya‘l(flf: 22 out of all shape. The catastrophe was - ) 4 THE (ot RY CLo oo . so0 sudden that before old man French could recover from the effects of the unexpected climax the bear had lifted