New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-28

Their fret care, on reaching tie limiting ground was K
Announce their bnsDess AID request such other hunt
ora az nigh, fall in with the urine gentleman of whom
,b.v We re IN search not 20 shoot him. but 20 msrcfuy
mare his Hte The whole country was soon spprised
Of The intent Of the huptiDg party, and heno@forh the
life Of Mr. Grizzly was as sacred as If he had been
white elephant in his own dominions-
In ahort time they discovered spot which seemed
to be- more than any other, fayorite haunt OF their
expected captive; narrow ravine Ia the eastern edge
of TnolunDe County, az the foot Of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains on thu bead wsiers Of the Tuoumos RIVER.
Here trap was made 10 the following substantial
mspDer: 4 log bouse constructed, fourteen feet
square Oh the inside and fourteen feet hghthe logs
OF which Il was built were each from ten 10 twelve
inches thick, all hewed smooth on the inside, and
strongly dOvetsied together vi the corners-huee
heavy logs were piled on the top, that the trap might
not be cverturned-an opening eight feet square was
left for the bear 10 enter which opening was TO be &C.
cDrsDy cored by Gliding door, arranged with spring
to descend whenever the bait was meddled with-ths
whole Of the inside Of the trap lined with smooth
sbeet.oD eloeey nailed down. that the feet aud claws
of the animal might be At fault when he endesvored,
as be certainly would to dig and gnaw bic way out.
The bait was live deer, and there was one con-
ssDty in the tap night and day from the day Of its
construction til the capture was achieved period Of
more tisn seven months. This deer was one Of the
wild species lassoed for this purpose and fed and wa
tered regularly by who was detailed to watch
the trap The whole dirty of standing in trap to be
eaten was by done by one ANIMAL frequent
changes beirg msde az viii soon appear. The trap
being ready for services the efforts Of the party were
then devoted to the nvegling of the shaggy monster
There was but one way to accomplish this-he was to
be fed baed in the vicinity of the trap until he be-
came accustomed 10 frequent the spot in search food
when he might eventually be enticed into the lnrfing
snare The mode Of proceeding was la tai. yise. the
party would occasionally discover the track Of their
bear, and would then lead bullock about in various
directions crossing and JecrossDg the track aud thor
oughy beating up the ground where his bearship
was lying. The bullock would then be turned loose
near the trap the hunters retire. and in short time
the bear having caught the scent of tho bait would
come forth snd msbe short work Of The Inflated bull
Many tine tho party could easily have shot him. had
tha. been their object But although old Grizzly, In
the eourss Of seven months, deyoured nearly thirty
bu)Ocks he had still kept out Of the trap. He made
but single meal from each ANIMAL always refusing to
touch CARCASS he had once left. he had now become
accustomed to frequent the spot that the hopes OF
lis pursuers grew daily more bright At last, one
hungry day in September 1854, the old Grizzly walked
srsght into the fatal pen, paid hs particular respects
10 the unhappy animal therein confined and in an in
stsnt the spring door closed and he prisoner for
hfs
The good rews o. the capture was soon told, and in
few days party of about twenty persons assembled,
q strong iron cage brought to the spot and the
task of csgne the beast begun. The top of the trap
was taken fl, and from above DIR. Grizzly was las
seed with multitudincu. rope5 of raw hides, which
We're thrown around biz neck aud each Of his legs and
he was streschcd-thst is his limbs were rendered
unseryceabe by being violently dragged in different
directions Five or Elk ropes being attached to each
leg he held fast until his strength was exhausted
q m5zzle put lis jaws, and he Was half dragged,
half driven from the log trap into the iron cage. This
operation took twenty three days TO accomplish
During the operation he broke more than seventy OF
the strong lsssos that thrown about him,
and when the struggle a. last was ended, he was CON-
pletey dIepched in blood from the slaughtered bullock
and from hmielf TIE exact details of the stretching
and caging are uuipportant. Suffice 10 cay that his
resistance was Of the sroe and that in the course OF
he Sight Re knocked Adams sky high, and an Indian
ky bieher and uekess Dutchmsn sky highest of an
without however, seriously ipjurDg any one of them.
Being safely housed, I" Old Grizzly" now rechrist-
ensd Samson" began his involuntary travels.
hundred and fy miles through the woods to Stockton,
thence by steamboat to San Francisco, where he re-
manned five years, thence by the John L. Stevens to
Panama, and by The Baltic from Aspnwall to New
York
Samson stands four and half feet high, Is ten feet
in length when fully extended s eight feet round the
body, and weighs 1904 pounls. Larger bears have
been killed, but none so large have ever been taken
alive. Samson ia now In New-York, being one among
the many wonders comprising I" Old Adams's' Cali
forria nenpgere and may be Of all curious men
ior the low levy of twenty five cents each.