Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-18
Bruin Faced by a Young Woman.

Rocky Mountain News: Robert Will
son lives lar up in the Big Horn range
of mountains, whose peaks tower to the
limits of perpetual Here him
self, wife and family are secluded from
the haunts OF civilization and seldom
does any one of them venture Gown into
the settlements until spring is far gone
and the summers sun has melted the
deep SHOWS out of the valleys and left
the mountain pathways clear and unim-
peded for travel.
so the other day when Wilson's
friends caught a sight of his brawny fig
ure staggering into Sheridan on o
mountain broncho heavily laden, they
We're just about as much astonished US
they would have been if some of their
dead relatives had risen up out of their
graves and appeared on the streets of
the village.
AS Bob neared the principal gro
Gerry in the village the crowd grew
thicker around the doorway, and when
he halted and climbed down from the
cayuse he was awarded IA friendly greet
ing and hearty hand-shake, for 1T is
universally conceded that Bob's heart
is one of the largest in the whole terri
tory.
After hitching his pony he ~nnstrapped
a huge animals hide from its back, and
as it fell he exclaimed: Look thar, We
old timers! Kin yer beat that? No, I
guess not" exclaimed he, with an air
OF triumph. 1T knocks everything il
the grizzly bar creation all to pieces.
I've never blieved there vas SIGH big
critters around here ~afore."
Its a whopper. Whar dye git it?"
shouted a half a do2ed bystanders all at
the same moment.
And the old hunter, in the most plain
and simple language, related to his
hearers the evere and ugly hand-to-
hand encounter with the beast, in which
his escape was almost miraculous. Find
ing the bears den under a huge shelly
ing rock in the side of a mountain, and
failing to dislodge the grizzly, he went
home .,and secural the assistance of his
daughter, who is an excellent shot with
a Winchester rife. Together they re-
turned TO the demand tried to persuade
the bearlto come out. But the grizzly
still refused. This made Bob" more
adventurous than ever. He cut a long
pole, tied a rope to his foot, and, taking
his revolver and hunting knife, crawled
into the rude passage way, determined
to lind the bear at all events. The sight
OF the man enraged the animal, and it
rushed toward him. Fortunately for
~ ~ opNi h4o up pAhipy wv
and skilfully avoided meeting
the bear face t. face, but
both man and beast became wedged to-
gether, so that neither could do the
other any bodily harm, though Bob
was squeezed so tightly as to be almost
squeezed in pieces. The bear was en-
deavoring to seize Bob with its mon
strous jaws, and Bob was trying to get
his knife ready for action. Jane was
equal to the emergency. She fired into
the bears throat, and a minute later he
dashed.out of the opening to catch her,
but being fleet, and the bear blinded by
the shot, she succeeded in escaping to a
place Of safety. In her flight she was
compelled to drop her rifle, and had
nothing to defend herself with. The
bear rushed back to its den to again
fall upon her father. Jane was struck
with horror, expecting her father
would meet with an awful doom. For
tunately the old hunter just then dis
co "ered a narrow opening between the
rocks IL the side of the den into which
he could 90 Eeyond the reach of the an
imal, it being too small an aperture for
the latter to enter. hire ne pug the
bear with his knife, having ,os' MS re-