New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-12

it would come and eat of'n that colt
every night. The rancher made up his
mind that he'd fix the gentleman, SO
he went to the nearest town, told the
boys about the bear, and got him
bottle OF strychnine. Hegot the shurf
and Tom, his deputy, and Mat Ward,
the distric' clerk, and they went home
with him to lay for that bear. shurf
Of Silver Bow county, Montana, mind
oou," as if the statement were a mat
ter of record, "and they all went home
with him
"Before dark they took the team
and hauled a big load of hay up in
about thirty steps Of the colts car
cass. They filled that carcass full OF
strychnine.
ssThere was no trees around there
handy, and nothin' else that a man
could hide behind-all a level open
bunch grass fat which Tompkins had
a sorter whiddledig fence round for
pasture. They hauled the hay up
there to shoot from, ofcourse.
''Long about the time when the
bear generally come-he made his Wis.
it's purity regular-them four men,
some with double barreled shotguns,
some with rifles, Grip up on theload O
hay and scrouged up close together or
the middle, for a bigload of hay, you
know. as big as that was anywez, is
mighty shaky when you get on tor
OF it.
s"The carcass was out there in front
OF them, they had their guns all fixed
for sho otin', and the moon was shin.
in sorter dimlike.
"'There comes a boss down the
gulch yander, whispered the Shurf
/" That's him. That's the BEAR
said the rancher. Great glory, what
a big one!'
1.-THE bear came on slow and stiddy
takin' his time.
'"They had the wind o. him, but
when he got to the colt he sees there
was somethin' wrong. So he walks
around to the wagon. The men was
breathin' awful low. They couldn't
see the grizzly, and was feared to move
lessn they might scare him. The
bear put his foot on the wagon an6
gives it a shake. Then he goes back
to the carcass and begins eatin'.
Hadn't somebody better give the
word? some one whispered
"'Better let him git his belly full o
medicine first, answered the Shurf.
''That bear could a turned thatloao
o. hay over with one flip of his foot
and them fellows know'd it.
"He snatched off a hind leg OF the
colt, finished his meal and went bach
in the woods where he came from
There WAS nary a. shot fired at him:
neither, and if the strychnine did not
agree with him they didn't find it out:
for he was never seen afterward. He
never came back to that dead colt
anyWez, no more"
eve were taking a band OF wethers
once-we had 10000 in the band
from Umatilla County, Oregon, TIC
Cheyenne" said a shepherd, who had
been listening and now came to
the support of the last speaker, "and
had three men beside myself, each man
with dog We had several horses.
guns and camping outfit Of course.
Gone hot day, about noon, the
sheep anchored on us, and while they
were lying in the shade we went down
to the water to cook dinner. This
was in the Blue Mountains, on the
Middle Fork OF the John Day River,
at sort of horseshoe bend about a
quarter OF mile around. 1t did not
look like a white man had ever been
there before.
"Some of the boys went in swim.
ming, and went across the river to the
inside of the bend. They found thou.
sands of tracks OF all kinds of game in
the sand-deer, elk, coon, bear and
goose tracks.
"'Them goose tracks, interposed a
voice, was beaver tracks. Abeaver's
hind foot is webbed, and makes
track like a goose's.'
'"That's so. I found that out after.
wards. The river was full of mussel
shells, with mussels in them at that.
You could have scooped up a wagon
load OF them in little or no time.
'"They saw a right fresh track of
bear and a cub where they had been
after those mussels and gone into the
brush.
II tried to get them not to go into
the brush after the bear, but no, they
were bound to go.
"They stationed me on a point that
came down between the cogs Of the
horseshoe, and commanded the under.
lying flat completely.
'"They then took the dogs and their
guns and went into the brush. Aman
could just crawl through the brush
and that was all.
''The bear was there, you bet, and
the dogs bayed her before they had
gone hundred yards. The men could
not tell from the barking where she
was. They kept as near together as
possible, Bill Sloane in advance.
Presently Bill shot and the bear made
lunge and was on top OF him, and
got him down. The other man raised
his gun to shoot, but was so close that
the bear struck his gun from his hand
and knocked it clear out of his reach.
He got away from her, and she
went back and stepped around on
top OF Bill, who was about half dead.
The third man opened on her, and
she would drop down every time he
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