Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-24
Hear-KiIlers Not Wanted.

During lull in business in the County
Clerks Office, that mighty Nimrod Billy
Hamilton narrated little incident con-
nected with his recent hunting trip in Ell
Dorado county, a conversation having
sprung up on the subject of bear and deer
killing and it ran something like this
While he was going up to Ellicott's camp,
where he intended 10 make his headquar-
tiers, he met the old hunter, with blood in
his eye and anger ali through him, vowing
vengeance against young man of folo
county, residing not far from Washington,
named McGregOr, who, accompanied by
another, had been up there hunting. 1t
seems that McGregor had, while stopping at
Ellicotts expressed his ardent desire to kill
a bear-in fact he was loaded for bear,
nothing smaller. Ellicott told him one
day that he would have no difficulty in
finding that kind of game-the woods were
full of them, and almost any morning If
he would get up early and follow the trail
leading from the cabin, he would have
chance for a shot The suggestion was acted
upon. and McGregOr started out on the trail.
armed with repeating rifle, revolver, knife
and with a fixed determination to get
enough bears grease to supply all the
young men of YolO. He had not been
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fusilade, and about arrived at the conclu-
sion that the bear was armed rs well as the
hunter, and was returning shot for shot A
few minutes later McGregOr returned,
minus gun and pistol, and breathlessly
narrated how he had met an immense bear
on the trail-One with tail q foot long, at
least-commenced throwing lead at him,
and without doubt wounded him, but not
enough to prevent him showing q DISPOSE
ton to fight, seeing which, and having ex-
hauSted his ammunition, the olOite re-
treated upon his reserves, throwing down
his weapons that he might run the faster.
Old man Ellicott while thinking that a good
deal of fuss was being made over little
go and see how matters were and recover
the arms from the field of battle.
He accordingly took his gun and
started out. On the trail near
the barn, about $50 yards from the house.
he found the weapons, and then looked
cautiously for the bear, and to his surprise
and Indignation discovered that the inno-
cent cause of all the shooting was his old
Tom cat who had been watching at
gopher hole, and, happening to move, was
Immediately fired upon by the bear-killerr
The latter must have been very nervous,
for the end of the barn. some distance
tA"Nl ohOhNb tAitil a &c liUlllDcI OF the
bullets had gone wide of their mark. An
other hunter, who had arrived at the cabin
just after Ellicott lett, and followed him to
assist in disposing of the supposed-to-be
wounded bruin, came up while Ellicott was
the poor cat who had been his
sole companion during many weary day
IN the past seven years, and was then living
at his feet in his dying agonies. The new.
conner picked up the arms, hurried back to
the cabin, and told the Yolo man, See
here, you've killed the old mans pet cat.
and the best thing you can do is to get as
far away from here as you can before he
comes backn' The advice was taken, and
it was well that it was, for Ellicott was de-
cidedly warm in his feelings. He told
Hamilton, after narrating his grievance:
8 On such bear-slayers! To come up
here, kill poor old Tom, and knock the end
out of my barn If he comes here again
III wind that catskin around his neck See
if don'tr'