Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-28

Mr.. L. Waugh, of Petaluma, " rites us fol-
lows to the Christian Advocates
When fighting grizzly is closely surprised
by man, his first effort is to make an ap-
pearance, the most terrific and alarming pos
sible. And then secondly, to test III he
thinks it best) to what extent he has succeed
ed in intimidating the intruding party A
few incidents and facts may be detailed, IL
Illustrating the truth of this statement.
bear, when it starts to run at q man, in
addition to its hideous noise, strikes the earth
with unusual force with his feet, which proves
to me that the first object is to get the man
alarmed and have him run. The bears vic.
tory is then easily gained In the notices
published of attacks made on men by griz-
zllys, see it generally stated, or implied, that
the victims first ran.
No man should hunt grizzly, or go much
among them, without having sure gan, ard
confidence in his use of it, The shot should
be made at the right time, and exactly to the
proper place. Never shoot a grzzlys face.
If the bear is at good shooting distance off
and especially down hill from you, shoot it
through the heart which is little further
back from the shoulder than that of the deer,
and keep quiet, and give it time to die at its
leisure.
Once, in company with Capt. H. Seymor ;
up the coast range, we discovered vely
large grizzly, across the canyon, digging in
the ground; and wishing meat, we crossed
the canyon, and going up the other face
among the scattered punches of manzaneta,
looking intently to see him, heard the Cap
tain say, behind me, 1--WE are close enough"
and at the same moment | saw the grizzly's
massive head coming from behind a bunch
of brush towards US, only thirty PAGES off,
and in a moment his hair was all on end; and
with significant snap of his teeth, and
tremulous growl and twirl of the lip, he said;
"what are you doing here?" We stopped
still and stood, gun sure, and ready in hand.
The Captain said, "shall | shoot?" | re-
piled, reserve your fire" The bear, after
coming few PAGES, hestated, and began to
circle, and when he got his side little to-
wards us, so | could fairy see the butt of his
ear fired with unusual steady nerve for me,
and in an instant he lay upon his back, waiv-
ing his monster paws in the direction of the
upper region. Had we retreated, he doubt
less would have chased us, but by our stand.
ing uLmoved, he would most likely have f.
nally sailed off and left US. With bear, a
man standing still, and a man running off at
full speed, are two different things. Bear
love the running game, when there is nothing
near the end on which sits their own signif-
cant tail
once saw grizzly take after a well buck
in the woods, l knew he had no expectation
Of catching him.
A Mr.. Collins, on Sonoma Mountain, came
upon grizzly and tried to shoot it, bat his
gun was wet, and when the bear made its
test demonstration, he ran, and took up
tree and thought he was out of its reach it
stretched itself up and laid hold of him. and
he said he thought it would pull his arm out
if it could not otherwise have got him down.
1t gave him severe MASKING and started off.
He then got up (got up of course too soon),
and it came back and gave him another
chawing, more to its notion, and left him
dead. Still the suffering man fortunately
lived
Mr.. II. Patten was since that attacked. His
gun also would not go off, and the bear came,
and he ran and took tree, but it was after
him, and bit him through the foot close to
the bone under the ancle and tore out its
hold with the shoe still in its mouth, and fell
to the ground. 1t worked on the shoe mo
ment, and again took the tree lie hauled
his bullet pouch to throw in its mouth and
in doing this, threw his hat off, which it
caught, and fell again, and then left with the
hat, and so he fortunately lived, but had
painful time with the wound.
| shot she bear last spring, which had a
young cub with her, and DR.. E. X Jenner,
of Petaluma, accompanied me after her int
a tremendous gulch, and brush SO thick we
could not see a rod ahead, and no dog with
u.s. In slipping along we got within two
rods of the bear, which we ascertained by
hearing her breathe, but could not see her.
We stopped still and gave her time, and in
half an hour she was unable to walk, and
then a shot in the brain and she was safely
our meat.
And here let me say that this DR.. E. X.
Jenner has invented and just completed the
gun that beats all guns yet made. For pow
er to throw its balls, for ease and facility of
use, for safety, durability and selfpreserva-
ton from distractions and arrangement the
world has never had its equal and when the
patent right is obtained and the guns manu-
factured, every gunner will have one; for
with one Of these "Jenner rifles" one good
man might safely kill seven grizzlies in five
minutes.
EX- A man named Riley, was sentenced
by the Recorder, Yesterday, to the County