Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-06-18
Rear Uun, on CoId GuIrb

NE. EDIToR: Sunday Is an off day in
 camp and yesterday, being Sunday, It
 was no exception to the rule, for the
 boys of thls camp, which is one of tue
 most promising in Old Hat district, de-
 termined on little fun in the shape of
 a bear hunt. The word was given and
 five as good men as ever scuttled ship
 or cut the outside of sausage, cried
 ''readyT Each armed with his trusty ] rifle and being a marksman born, was a host within himself and seconded by a dog that had been nurtured amid the wilds of Arizona's primeval rocks and plains, they were, in their own belief, inyincIbles that wanted only to see a bear to call him theirs. With Captain Mike in the lead and old Baldo second to carry Mikes game, they followed for mile the left-hand gulch from camp and there parted. LewIs and Garris took with them an old son of Sonora to aid in carrying home their dead; with Mike went the dog. They had proceeded but a few hundred yards when, as the dog made dead stop, Mike sangout There he is." and sure enough he was, for back came the dog and at his rear end huge cinnamon bear, but the dog reached Mike first. Mikes hair raised so high that the dog got scared and ran back to the bear for protection, his bearshiD in the meantime sitting as erect as Dennis kearney at a sand lot picnic. For the nOnce Mikes speech was gone, but when he got it one would think that Loco and his band were practicing yells at the soldiers close by. "Oso, oso, bear. bear. Jesus Maria, come, come" Everybody l was on the run, Baldo for camp and the l son of Sonora close behind, when all at l once the latter paused and half wild | shouted "OsO, OsO,' and without doubt | there it was and larger than the first.
 Sonora's voice sounded like Llewelyn's | horn, they all attended, the bear making | tracks for the distance and as Mike got in a shot Garris came to the rescue and put in another. Jesus Maria ex- claimed the son of Sonora, "itis nigger Africano, Afrlcano con pelO,' but the hunters wanted none of it. The dog only was in fighting humor and he looked first at the bear and then at Mike. not knowing which of the two to tackle first. First bear for Cares. Just then old Baldo sighted another. He turned to run and seeing that dead bear, he imagined 1t alive and shouted kill him, kill him" fired his! gun into it and started second time campwards, as if it was a six days race at Levin's, and he had only one day to go 1t in.
 But crack, bang went the other rifles and when the well known voice of Lewis's was heard to say i've got him all hands stopped running and turned towards, him who had bear as big as the great American mastOdon, who did so much with the emblems of other Nations. Well do not know what he did, but heard it drank as a toast to all the hunters in at the death of the Lewiss bear.
 Getting late and not wishing to take chances after dark all hands started to gut up the game, but had time only 10 skin one ham, which was brought to amp on pole between two men. The others following behind with arms reversed while the Son of Sonora guarded the flank and with hat ,ff, striking matches al along he way to light the son of Airicano con 1elo to glory.
 Arriving at camp, supper was soon 'eady and everyone did his best to make ! good meal off the first bear ever brought to camp. In the morning the balance of the meat was brought in and The bears each averaged six hundred pounds when dressed Their iides were as large as that of full grown buffalo.
 Mike says that he was not afraid, 1t was 'nly the prospective bears grease that made his hair stand straight.
 SHIPMATE.