The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-07
A COLORADO BEAR HUNT.
Twice Chased up Tree by a Grizzly that Weigh
ed Six Hundred.

Twice Chased up Tree by Grizzly that Weigh
ed Six Hundred.
Mr.. A. F. Sarftsnbery received a letter
recently from one of his brothers in Ma
noos, COL, containing thrilling bear
story, as follows, which will be read with
interest:
About month ago my partner Mr..
Field, and myself started down the val
ley to locate some farms, and having Be-
leCted our choice we went over to the
edge OF the valley to look for house tim
ber, where we encountered herd OF
deer. had not gone over thousand
yards when a great big black bear caught
my gaze, and made my hair stand
straight on end. cannot explain 10 you
how looked, but can assure you had
that bear seen me just then l should
never have got look at him, to say
nothing about shot. However | want
ed to see and shoot grizzly, and forget
ting all about the deer and my friend, l
followed the track and did not go over
half mile when l spied bruin under a
tree. was within 500 yards of him. l
fred but missed him. He got up and ran
off. This made me little more Coura
geous and induCed,me to follow on. l
had travelled about two miles and was
Just entering a small patch Of Cedars
when | saw him walking quite leisurely
about 100 yards ahead of me. This was
my time. was just in the act of firing
when he heard me, stopped and looked
around at me, as though to better re-.
ceive the contents of my rifle, which
told with good effect as you will see. AS
soon as had fred he turned and made
for me. l tried to get another cartridge
into my rife, but could not do it quick
enough, so, realizing my danger, l made
for tree, which l tried to climb with
rife in hand, but being unable to do this
l was obliged to drop it. had got up
the tree about eight feet, when he pass.
ed under it at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour, and having lost sight of
me he returned and took the trail that l
came in on. AS he passed the tree the
second time could see the blood ooziHg
from his right side, which left crimson
mark on the snow, and knew from this
that he was badly wounded. BY this
time was about thirty feet up the tree
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of sight / descended from my place OF
refuge to follow on again, but being just
little bit scared did rot like to vent
ure alone, so | returned to the place
where / had left my friend, whom l
found sitting on large deer which he
had shot, waiting for me. Having lost
all his cartridges / told him briefly OF
what had transpired, and arming himself
with small axe we both took the trail.
We aid not travel far from the scene of
conflict until We saw Mr.. Grizzly repos.
ing under tree. As soon as he saw us
he made bold charge at US, which COM
PEELED both of us to climb tree in quick
order, though this time l succeeded in
keeping my riffs. He did not come all
the way aud was on the point of turning
when well.aimed bullet from my rife
entered his head and killed him. We
hauled him home with a horse, where
the boys took off his skin. l never saw
any kind of meat so fat-it was just like
pork. He dressed nearly 900 pounds,
the largest bear that has been killed
here for many years.