The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-01-30
Satsa.


There afc on the foot bills ia Gun.
nisOn county. Colorado, at this sea
son of the year great numbers OF
deer aud elk. With many mountain
Hons ard bears Wilian I-ulee ana
brother left Mr.. Pres.oo's ranch O.
the G0saison recentIv 10 hunt fos
Elk end deer A Wagon drawn b.
lt@o animals, guns. Ammunition and
I Provisions completed the outfit They
travelled al day and reached the
bills ao0u, nighifalI and eneamped.
Seeing the nexi morning good many
signs u game, they Concluded TO re-
main atteast one dsv and try their
iuck- Early in the morning they
started IN different direclIons with
guns, powder and ball, Of course.
Alter going about Eve miles from
camp aod seeing no game, William
ulse Concluded ~ :etnrn He bad
Proceeded but short distance be-
fore be heard, as be thought, the rus
Illng VI the dry leaves Looking up,
he saw oDly abUut thirty yards from
him, huge bear coming directly To-
ward GID, with open mouth, and
gros hog anf giving other evidences
Of THIRST for blood Yulee waited
uutil the brute came within few
PAGES " nIm. when be took deliber-
e sin. but unfortunately his gun
missed ire
The feFociuus beast ran directly
against the nunter, knocking him
doS8, saG a. quick as thousnt Yulee
turned User 0n MS face and feigned
L BE- dead the bear bit him severe
~ IN four places, disabling one arm
aud one leg Alter the lapse of a
lev DlnuGes, neither teeiiGg nor
neaTiog The beast, Yulee cautiously
raised nIs mead aud saw bis antsgO-
GIst aoOu, thirty yards of apparently
covering sp something Win grass.
oee,us a 1ree near nIm be made up
his la.ud W reach II aGd get up 1. If
possible, even though seriously
NOuuded 81 ID be crawied through
the SNOW, Keeping sn eve sttentivsly
ga the Dear aud tree. Reaching ,he
tree be started 10 climb II, aud the
bear started from his retreat directly
toward nlm, growing and gusshiDg
Dis leeIn. He sOOn reached the tree.
Iulee had gone up Only few feet
Jas hIgh enough FOR his own safety.
0ui rot TOO nign for the bottom of bis
feel % be touched by the nose of the
beast lie again attempted TO use
his gun, but IN vain. The animal
v hiu' d g,o~led and gnswed at tie
.ree. Alter o while be returned 70
what appeared to be u large pile Of
grass aud commenced again 10 work
as though he was eoncesling some
tnIug
Yuiee, though suffering from the
cold aud bis wounds, resolved to
m IKE last effort TO save his life. So
descending cautiously to the ground
while The bear was ct work, he
craSled q few steps until be got a
low bushy Tree between himself and
tue Sttit " a IuAuS lLC OtdI SiOcCAf
10 the mesnume. He could not
travel more than hundred yards at
q ume without resting. At last be
reached the camp considerably ex-
nausted.
The next day several men armed
themselves aud went to the scene of
the fight, aud when within about
thirty yards OF pile of straw, they
saw a large bear emerge theretrOm
aad make toward them, evidently
with the iatention to fight, but be did
not proceed far before he fell, pierre
ed Win Ten balls He weighed 500
pounds gross, aGd was neither grIz-
zly Bor a cinnamon, but cross be-
tween the Two, called silver tip or
raGge beaF--a malignant and .ero-
cioas beast. Covered up in his bed
was large dead deer, which il was
supposed mountain lion bad killed
ard the eeaF had stolen