The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-06
HOW TO KILL 4 GRIZZLY.

~ writer III the San Francisco
Chronicle tells how grizzly visited
his camp and was afterward killed:
lie came to our camp one night. 1t
was moonlight. We slept in hut
built of the fragment fir tree branches.
We had been out all day hunting, and
were enjoying the profound sleep of
youth, health and WEAKNESS. We
might have smeiled him, but we did
not. We might have heard the even
measured slap, slap, of his great fiat
feet, as he rolled along up the narrow
valley between the two ridges covered
with lofty pines that threw their shad-
ows across the silver belt Of the moon
light; but we were deep in sleep, and
far, far away in most delightful dreams.
we had solitary dog-cur species
who might have warned us by his bark
of The approaching: monster; but he
quietly stole out If the fragrant arbor
and ran away. He came. He saw.
lie gobblcd up all the bacon we had
left. lie ate it like gentleman-a
mouthful OF leekS, which grew near
by. alternating a mouthful of dried
swine. The bacon weighed about fif-
tr-iour pounds the leeks probably
half 40 much IIe loft rs only the rina
of the tlitch-nothing more. lie tackled
our bread-skillet and swept it clean.
lie tore open our potato sack and de-
voured all the contents, and he didn't
leave bean in the pot. There was a
bag Of sugar. He got that also. There
Was kcg Of "redeve" which he failed
TO get, or this story might have a diff
ferent ending. We got up. as usual.
at the rising Of the sun. We had moth
ing but ''redeye" and coffee, without
Sugar, for breakfast. He left us his
tracks in the ashes of our campfire.
have often tried to make nv friends
understand how big a grizzly's tracks
can be. but none of them believed me
when | said eighteen inches long and
nine wide. nor Yet when | came down
10 fifteen and six and a half. We did
not measure them, but they looked as
big rs the first figures.
The camp was hungry, mad and
thlrsting for revenge. The man who
>tuttered-he was al old deer-hunter
remarked. after sullen silence of
about an hour:
"B-b-boys. live go-go-got it, sh-
shu-Shurse's the dickens"
We said, "What:''
,, "lh.{h,the p-p-p-plan to ke-ke-ketch
lie had, too. He took the log chain
from an ox-wagon. 1t was sixty feet
long and very strong and heavy. He
fastened it to 4 block of wood that
might have weighed $50 pounds. He
rode t!;ty miles ana secured a large
spring-trap used for grizzlies. We
! tracked our robber friend 20 his lair
a patch Of dense chaparral covering the
slope OF mountain, abouuding in
wild plums and berries. There we
set the trap, batting ii with the rem
nant OF q ham borrowed from a neigh
Dor. Bruin slept for 4 day and nigh,
The second night he came out and got
his foot in it.
Next morning we went out, all arm
ed, to see how the scheme wa. work
ing. There was path through that
chnparral thicket twcMtv feet wide,
the shrubs cut as close as the good
mower cuts grass. We followed it,
I'll! we hear fearful roaring and
growing. We had him. His flight
had been cut short BY the doubling OF
the block and chain around a tree. and
! there he was ready for our guns.
know very we'll that All officer of the
forty-iitth Bengalese regiment would
call this 4 cowardly way TO hunt. if the
animal were tiger. But a grizzly is
a much more dangerous animal than a
tiger when wounded, and ten times AZ
hard to Kill as tiger or lion. The
man Who goe&. into a thicket after 3
wounded grizzly is fool who has not
far to 60 10 reach an asylum for the in.
sane. We did better. We chained Our
! dangerous game, and then at our leis.
ire shot him to death. His weigh,
was never ascertained. The carcass
was enormous. And this is the way
we got compensation for our stolen
bacon.