The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1901, Page 3

Sdw. Donahoe FadFunddiih a Grizzly. Henry &. fighton fad a Raiher LDramatic Experience Ornce. whe was within eigh e seen the the fesertion \t any and 1 his blankets with I could have vy re- t or all hap- eve anl 4 almost v continue frer. fferen “I proceeded on the general proposition n seems to be she ’ with t her. cks were so fr enec sh that we were rushed on with i vigor. Presently the dogs set Ya vap!” and simply flew o ground with an excijed crowd at thelr THE SUNDAY CALIL. hecls. When we reached the top of the frantic chews, was Mr. Grizzly hard at work. He apparently found the tree that he was ther in the way, and so de- hill there ragging termined to rid himself of a nuisance. When he heard the dogs he gave a few the Tree in a Rush With the Bear in Cicse Pursuit and the Dog After the and then rushed down the hill at full speed, leaving the tree behind him. But as he ran the sharp end of the trap gouged his sides at each step, and be left a bloody trail behind him. He took to the brush, and it was al- Bear. most Impossible to tangle of bria follow through the r and overgrown trees. But for the traii we would have been baffled agaln. After a day's hard tramping, the loss of a dog or two and a lively skir- mish, the bear was finally killed, and we went home tired but joyful. . L. Prather Jells -Quite a Good One. HAVE heard doz 4 stories that diseount mine all to pi but I will tell you I consider my most exciting expe It happened about T was hunting this State. One I took a out, thinking that I would se do anything. We the woods and as t} aLy game bear six years ago, when part of oung dog the nerthern to bay and g kim a good thras sistent. But it di mistletoe. and I found a ¢ It took but a I and I was taking a noise behind me about fn a Nurry The old bear was coming at a furious rate. It was too late for me to her, 0 I went around the tree In with the bear ! dog af we must round we directic scarcely see. All the time T was pumping cartridges into the air as fast as I could luck to hit her. Now turn round and give N hanging on to her heels, was a merry one merry-go-round the I saw the two animals 3 That was my opportunity take me long to take advantage caused me to turn the dirt w s and I was so dizay th Tir. Grizzly Apparently Found the Tree That He Was Dragging Rather in the Way: Dr C_hisfi_ore q;v;s One Jhat fe Heard, R. CHISMORE says that in all his D years of bear hunting he has had practically no thrilling adventures. While he gave up counting tife bears that he killed years ago, he simply goes out now and kills them with nc ado. However, he told a very clever story of old Seth Kinman, the pioneer hunter of Humboldt County, which, he says, i3 one of the best bear stories he has ever heard. Seth was the famous hunter who sent so many chairs made of elk horns to a num- ber of the Presidents of the United States. This is the story as he related it to Dr. Chismore. “You fellers talkin' abont bars Jest The Bear Was Verv Lesn, makes me think of a racket T onct was mixed up In with an ole erittur that had grown gray ramblin’ over the mountains and huntin’ berries to keep fat. “B'ar River runs west along the sea for, 1 reckon, jest about twenty-five miles, and Elk River runs parylel to it. “That's whar we used to hunt, as a gineral rule. “The elk came out o' the green timbers every mornin’' and evenin’, and thar we used to lay fer 'em and ketch ‘em to. We killed nigh unto 300 atween us in one year. [} “Well, one arternoon we had just maae a camp when one o' the Injuns that wu had fetched along to pack, sez: ‘Seg that bar.’ “Right below us on the perairie about 400 yards off thar war a big grizzly a- scratchin’ fer mice. He war throwin’ out the dirt itke a dog a-diggin’ fer a wood- chuck, and he war half covered with dirt when 1 seed him. “The Injuns were powerful crazy to bor- rer our guns to shoot him, and my pard was as anxious to let 'em have 'em as they was to get hold of 'em. 1 give in, although I ain’t precisely like the idea of makin’ a racket so nigh nightfall fer fear o' scaring all the elk away, but he said we'd see some fun, so I give in. “We watched them Injuns as they start- ed aff. They war plum nacked to a breech- clout, ,an’ got within fifteen or twenty feet o' old grizzly before firin’. Then I'll be gosh darned if both of 'emn didn't turn loose at onct. “One hit him through the flesh and t'other ripped him down the belly, cuttin’ a gash 'bout elght inches long. “A% that war the first the old stager knowed o' it, you jest oughter seed the dirt fly. Went in every direction at onect. He came out o the hole and in two jumos had one of them Injuns. ‘“The Injun war an ole hand at fightin’ himself, an’ he war game, all right. He dropped flat on his belly jest as the b'ar got up to him, and thar he laid, and nev- er moved. Ole Ephraim grabbed him by the biggest part of his body and shook him like a dog would a skunk. “Golly, but I seed daylight atween that Injun and the groun' lots o’ times. “1 noticed- that the b'ar would walk away a few feet from the poor Injun, and then stop and go back and bite, scratch, gnaw an' shake the feller ag'in and ag’in. “I diun’t know what ter make of it, as I had never seed any foolin’ like that before, an’ as soon as I got the gun load- ed T went down to within twenty feet of him and shot him In the butt of the ear. He jest feil in a heap and straightened out. As soon as I seed that the Injun wasn't dead but was jest shooked up, I went up to see what made that b'ar aet so queer. “One of them balls from the Injun's gun had cut a long gash in the b'ar's belly, and when he would walk away the pain would make him sit down on his haunches. Then when he would see the big hole, he would get so crazy mad that he would go back and begin all over with the redskin. He didn't know jest what to do with himself. “Seems kinder queer, but it's a fact.” Lr. E. G. McConnell Jelis an R. E. G. McCONNELL tells a good D story that a hunter told him a tew years ago when they/ were scouring the sides of Shasta. One cold day the most enthusi- astic member of the party started out for a tramp. He took the dogs and car- ried enough provisions to last over night, in case he should be caught out. When he showed up in camp at last he told them this story: “1 was entering a ravine when 1 sud- denly spied a cliff of gravish rocks. It surprised me, as I thought I knew the country fairly well. Even as I looked the rocks moved and I saw that my cliff was a huge grizzly bear. “I fired just as fast as I could, and then that animal did a queer thing—it cut loose and ran. It was =o large and ran with o much velocity that it set the woods all about on fire. Didn't you notice it? “I couldn’t follow him after dark, but the next morning I set the dogs on ths trall and followed him. Eventually I killed him. It was about noon, and I set to work to skin him. All afternoon I A only Odd One. worked on his hide and camped there at night. The next day I started it again, and worked until nightfall. After that It was impossible to work on him any more as the odor was entirely too offensiva. After ail t ttime I had succeeded ‘n getting only about half of his skin off, %0 you ecan imagine what a big fellow he was. Why, if 1 had wanted to save the oil I should have be it over the mc tain.” . e e “T'm afraid me daughter Moya is get- * so she stuttes sald Mr. Dolan. Latin an’ geomethry at the high s “Whin did yez notice it first?” inquired Mr. Rafferty. *“This mornin’, when she got a letter, I interrogated her concernin’ it, an’' she sald something about ‘Blily Doo.” I know betther. It wor ‘Bill Dooley.’ "—Wash- ington Star. “It takes four persons a whole year to make a high-grade cashmere shawl.’ “That's all right; my wife bought one and it took me four years to pay for It."” =Detroit Free Press.