Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-06-25
A SUCCESSFUL BEAR HUNT.
Five Bears Killed From a Single
Camp.

Five Bears Killed Ff0m a Single
Camp.
The credit of killing the most bears
in the shortest space Of time in the
Rocky Mountains in modern times
belongs to our fellow-eitizen E. B.
Wells. 1t was less than three weeks
ago that Mr.. L. B. Wells, of Helena,
and George S. Gordon, of Prickly
Pear valley, armed with Winchesters
and provided with a travelling and
camping outfit Of wagon, horses, tent
and supplies, started on the hunt for
a valuable horse that had strayed
away BIZ. Wells while fishing on the
Little Blackfoot some five weeks ago.
Getting upon the trail of the lost
horse, they followed on until they
found themselves in the mountains
between Nevada creek and the town
of Drummond, in Deer Lodge county.
Finally losing the trail among the
rugged peaks Of the highest ranges
of the Rockies, the hunters resorted
information from theranchmen living
down in the valleys, who gave them
pointers that carried them to the al
most inaccessible parks that were
known to be hid away in the noun
tains surrounded by thick timber,
marshes and lakes. It was in such a
place as this that our hunters, while
looking for the haunts of a band of
horses that We're believed to be corral
led somewhere in one of these parks,
that they saw bear signs enough to
show them that they Werein the midst
Of these savage brutes, and that they
must be constantly on the watch for
fear Of being bounced upon from their
LARS. Nj. Wells was accompanied by
his famous hunting dog, whose intel
ligence in the woods has proved re-
markable in former trying occasions,
and whose sagacitty at the present time
tested his value to his master and his
companion. The situation of clears
to the front of you, bears to the right
Of you, and bears to the rear of you"
got SO interesting that it was a ques-
ton of whether the hunters would
hunt bears or be hunted. In this
anxious quandary it was notlong be
fore the dog gave tongue in a man
e that indicated something extra
ordinary, and as the music came near
er and nearer it was but a few mo-
ments before bear number one came
in sight, Swapping and snarling at the
dog at his heels. The hunters dis
mounted in a moment and prepared
for battle. On came a | large grizzly,
Or silyer-tip, rolling and tumbling
from side to side in his efforts to get
away from the dog. As he came with
in sixty yards Of Mr.. Wells Winches-
ter and presented a favorable spot for
a dead shot, he let drive and planted
his bullet between the shoulders Of
the bear and his backbone.
Mr.. Wells, knowing hat he has
given bruin his death wound, and
throwing another cartridge into place
for fear that there were two of them,
he called to MI. Gordon to come in
at the death. The hunters then
gathered around the huge monster,
which, unable to get up, was clutch
ing and biting the under brush and
everything in reach. while the dog
amused himself Juggling at the hams
of the dying bear. In about fifteen
minutes the bear was dead, with only
one bullet hole in his skin.
During a week spent in the r~ecesses
Of these mountains Mr.. Wells killed
five bears. The remarkable part of
the killing of the bears is that each
one was killed with a single bullet.
The territorial bounty was obtained
from the treasurer upon the Certificate
from a Justice Of the peace in Deer
county.-Herald
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