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


Istopped some weeks ago for night
at the Antelope Springs Tavern-half
hotel and half stable, built Of pine
logs, some of which are two feet IN
thickness lonely place under the
pines, where could hardly hope for
any but a lonesome night OF it. The
place was a hotel some twenty years
ago, but has been deserted since then.
was glad to find crowd of hunt
ers, trappers, miners and travellers
collected there, driven in like myself
by the snowstorm which had been ra-
ging all day on the mountain tollroad.
After a good supper, which included
elk steak, we gathered around blaz-
ing fire OF dry pine wood on the old
;hearth.
eve were hunting black.tail deer on
tie main range of the Rocky Mount
aims, near the headwaters Of the Little
Blackfoot River, in Montana ven
tured a slim young man, "Heath and
T. Heath was young fellow from
Boston, and Beacon street maybe at
that. Hehad joined the United States
army. He had been in the territory a
year or so. had served under General
Terry against the Sioux, and had seen
ssome service, too; was at the Little
Big Horn just after the Custer mas
rsacre. Becoming tired of life in bar
racks, he got out OF the army by the
assistance of friends at home,
among them General B., under
the plea that he was not of age when
The enlisted.
fFWell, we had been tracking band
of deer until pc were just a bout play
led out, when we saw them away up on
the side of the mountain. 1t was
about three hours till shutdown.
eve tied old Prince, Heaths dog,
to q little bush with silk handker-
chief, intending to leave him there
while we slipped on the deer. The
dog would break sometimes and spoil
"a shot.
ri was ahead of Heath about
hundred yards with my Winchester
on my shoulder-had some six or
eight loads in the chamber. She was
what is called an Express rifle, So
'caliber and shoots 100 grains OF pow
der. When that gun spoke something
was liable to get hurt. Heath's was
Remington, a single-shot rifle, you
know. but for one shot I hardly think
there's better.
~ had always been anxious to run
across a. grizzly, and we both had
about made up our minds that when.
ever we should come up with bear
on our hunts we should try him a
owhirl. I am no SLOUGH OF a shot, if I
do say it myself, and Heath was as
quick as a. rabbit and as steady as
bridge, as he would say.
"Well, old Prince began tugging at
the handkerchief and broke loose. He
came running up to Heath as if fright
.ened. Hooked back, and just where
"a little while before we had been rest
ing under a little fir tree came two
bears at a dead run, one following the
other, and both right on our trail.
They were silver tips, and were COM
ing as fast as an average coyote can
run, and getting over the rough ground
as nimbly as cats.
e Look out Health l hollered,
there's something after us.
"But he had already seen them and
fsaey both passed in about fifty yards
.. ofIlIm l saw him raise his rifle, then
Z he lowered it and looked around, and
began backing toward a tree that
stood not far away from him. He
saw that the tree was handy, and he
slipped his hand in his pocket for more
cartridges so as to have them ready.
<Those bears looked to be about
the size OF a sack Of wool, such as you
!. see in this country, and about that
: shape. | WASN'T hungry for bear meat
5s,tat about that time, gentlemen.
"'Give it to 'em Heath!' I cried, for
/ thought he was not going to shoot.
In fact, 1 didn't have time to think
much about it or | would not have
said that. It was all done as quick
AS you can bat your eye, anyway.
."tWhang! went his Remington.
* Stay with me Louis, he shouted
They are on the. fight
F'He shot at the bear in advance,
and hit it in the rear somewhere. It
stopped, turned round, stood up on
his hind feet and showed it's teeth. It
worked it's jaws as if it was chewing it's
>cud. Then it roared or growled or
howled-whateve you may call it
twice, and you could have heard it a,
mile. Never heard such a voice any
,avhere else.
III ran out to a place where I could
get a fair sweep at them when they
came back toward Heath. Before we
could load and shoot again the bear
came numbering along by the other one,
and they both ran into the brush to-
gether.
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