Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-25

and yearlng. Instantly Jesse cried
out: "a bear jump back this is no
place TO fight" With three bounds Bill
had reached level spot of ground, and
Jesse, when the bear had come close
enough to be singed by the powder, fired
and broke her shoulder. Maddened
with pain, she sprang with the quickness
of lightning and caught Jesse, who was
in the act of leaping back, by the side.
Such was her momentum, that together
they fell at Bills feet, Jesse underneath
and the bear on top. Instantly she seiz-
ed his side in her huge jaws, sinking her
upper tusks deep into the muscles of the
back, while she was prevented from
doing the same with her lower ones, and
thus from biting huge mouthful out OF
his side, by striking against a shot pouch
which hungby cord from his shoulders.
Jesse, wishing to get her attention away
from such vital parts, kicked her, and
at the same instant Bill, putting his rifle
close to her body back of the shoulder,
fired. The pain-stung beast, supposing
that the cause of her misery came from
the kick, seized Jesse's foot by the ankle
and began to chew it up.
jesse then attempted to get his six
shooter while Bill was loading. Attract
ed by Jesse's movements, she wheeled
and received another shot from the rifle.
With wonderful quickness she struck
this, her other enemy, clip on the head
knocking him down, and a fourth shot
went crashing through her body from
the six-shooter, discharged by Jesse with
his left hand. Instantly she grabbed
and bit through the left arm, but per-
ceiving Jesse moving his head, which he
did in order to give Bill chance to
shoot her without having it in range,
she opened her huge blood-stained jaws
and took in nearly his whole head in her
mouth, Jesse's eyes staring down her
throat. The situation was desperate
one, and something must be done in the
twinkling of an eye. Bill was equal to
it and ready. Placing the muzzle of his
rife Just back of her ear, he fired. Spring
ing back in her death.leap, she tore
away part of Jesse's upper jaw and a
piece of the scalp five inches wide by
nine inches long. She fell back upon
! Bills legs, who rolled her off, and then
took his knife and cut off the piece OF
Jesse's jaw, with his teeth attached, }
which hung by thread, trimmed the
ragged portion of the scalp, and was en-
deavoring to dress his wounded foot,
when the yearling bear appeared upon
the scene emily a few feet away. 1t was
) the work of an instant to seize his rife
and send bullet through her head,
When the wounds had received all the
: care possible, jesse was helped to his
feet and attempted to walk. Finding it
impossible, the broad-shouldered, athletic
stopped, and taking the man upon his
shoulders started away, Only once in
that long tramp of eight miles did he
stop to rest, wishing to reach camp be-
fore dark, and fearing that the wolves,
if they got scent of the blood might
give trouble. Arriving at camp. good
fortune favored them in finding there
another man who had come in during
the afternoon. Patching up their wound
ed friend with prepared plaster-a roll
of which hunters generally carry-they
constructed carriage" in the follow
ing manner: Lashing pole on each
side of pony, secured to the pack sad
dle-while the other ends dragged upon
the ground-they constructed basket
of plated deer-skin thongs between the
pole, just back of the animal, and in this
placed Jesse. This is the Indian method
of Transporting their sick and wounded.
They at once set out for Fort Bridger,
travelling all that night, stopping only
to pour cold water upon the painful
wounds. Never did Jesse lose his con-
sciousness; no sign of suffering, except
a few grunts, came from the fearfully
lacerated man in the long journey.
When morning arrived they halted for
two hours, and then continued on unin-
terruptedly until night, save when they
paused by some stream, as in the night,
to battle the wounded parts. When eve
ming came they arrived at the ford, where
the upper trail crosses Green River, and
where an emigrant outfit had long be-
fore been plundered, the emigrants them
selves murdered, and the wagons thrown
into the river. They here procured the
front wheels of one of the wagons and
placed the poles on this, instead of the
pony, TINS easing the carriage of the suf-
ferer. All that night and the next day
they proceeded as before, with occasion
al stoppsges for rest and doctering. The
next night the journey was continued
only until 8 o'clock, when a halt was