Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-03
A MODERN DIANA.
MRS. JULB BAKER, A NOTABLE TUCKER
COUNTY WOMAN.
A Tough Fight With Four Bsars-Suicids-A Big
Land Slds-Gsnsral State
News.

A Tough Fight With Four Bsars-Suicids-A Big
Land Sllds-Gsnsral State
News.
A West Virginia correspondent. writing
in q recent issue of the Baltimore Sun,
thus describes O modern Diana he discov-
cred down in the "Land of Canaan"
along the line of the extension of the West
Virginia Central railroad:
'The most celebrated hunters Of this
section are Bob Eastman, julie Baker, 3 wo-
man, and Louis Chidister. There is law
to protect deer, Tut it is not observed.
Out of season vsnison is called mountain
mutton. julie Baker is the wife Of John
Baker, and lives near the mouth Of Black
Water Fork. She GIN handle Wincbes-
ter with the dexterity and pre- cision Of Old
Leatherstocking, and hundreds Of deer and
bear have fallen victims to the unerring
bullets from her riffs. Bob Eastman says
he saw her plunging down the mountain
side through six inches OF snow one day
with two rifles and bear trap strapped to
her back and followed by six dogs. She
ran three miles to point where she thought
deer in full chase would cross, and she
got there in time to sea her husband Kill
him. Shs is big black-hsired woman,
very industrious, with heart as big as
her foot, snd she is the mother OF seven
children. She is not pretty. A few m onths
ago, for o silver dollar, she carried vallse
weighing over one hundred pounds, seven
miles for an engineer. 1t ia said that on
one occasion she carried q sewing machine
from Grafton to her home, distaucs OF
sixty miles"
A TOUGH BEAR FIGHT.
A correspondent writing from White
Camp, this State, tells of recent tough
tussls between an old hunter and farmer
named Spruce Williams, and big bear
and her cabs. Williams went out to his
corn field, taking with him stout hickory
Climb. Before be had passed a dOz IN shocks
he heard loud grunt, and looking around
saw a she bear and three ha!fgrown cubs.
He Faid: 'One ofthe cubs ran out of a
stopping to think
Init IT A WELT
with tie club. The bear tumbled over
on its back and began to cry and whine
Before could hit again the cid she bear
came tearing up, followed by the other
two cubs, and then had my hands full.
Good Lord! there WAS more fight 10 those
three bears than l ever saw before. They
were in dead earnest from the start, and
gave me no chance to back out or Iuu off.
The old bear came up, and when within q
few fseS of me she reared herstlf upon her
two hind feet and tried to ca'cf me in her
arms. 1 gave her welt over the nose,
which
SETTLED HER BACK ON ALL FOURS
for second, but bstore could hit her
again one of the cuss;d cubs had slipped
mp behind me and gave me fearful rip
with his sharp claws on the right leg.
The claws tore my pants and hide into
ribbons and penetrated the flesh almost
half IN inch. Then it was hot work. All
three came at me at once. levele1 one OF
the small ones, but got ripper from bs.
hind again, and just thea the old she bear
got c'oss enough to strike me with her
claws She raked me, as you see, from
my chest clear down to my waist, and
| would probably have killed me then and
there if l had net been lucky enough to
punch her in one of her eyes. The blow
must have hurt territ ly, for she laid down
and rolled aud whined, but did not have
chance to finish her before tie two
BIGGEST CUBS CAME AT ME-
from both sidee. / rained blows on their
heads and DO lies, but didn't succeed in
getting in real good one before they had
about torn my hide and clothes into rib
bons.
"Just at TINS time my foot struck
stone, which / saw was big bowlder
weighing eight or ten pounds. l dropped
the stick and picked up the rock in Sec
ond, and let the big one have it right be-
tween the eyes. That settled her. now
had more time to devote 10 the cubs, and
although was mighty
SORE AND BLEEDING
from dozen of wounds succeeded in fin
ishing them. After the fight l dragged
myself to the creek and jumped in. The
cool water revived me somewhat, and
fl oally got out and managed to get to the
house, when ths old woman put me to bed
and went to work to stick me together
sgain. am getting along well enough, l
suppose, but you i never catch Old Spruce
while be lives in these mountains going
out sglin very far without a gun or some
other weapon"
GREAT LAND GLIDE.
A special from Bonds Mills says: The
largest land slide ever known here occur
red few days since on the side of the
Cumberland Mountain, where a scope of
land, containing not less than twenty-five
or thirty acres; slipped from the side of the
mountain, carrying its forest Of pine, oak,
CHESTNUT ard other immense trees along
With it into narrow valley below, COM
pletely dammipg it from the mountain side
to parallel ridge four hundred yards dis
tsut. The small creek which ran down
the valley was damned up, and formed
small lake from ten to twenty feet deep,
aud perhaps half-mile in length. The
forest trees still stand on the slide, but at
an angle of forty to fifty degrees. The
mountain side is bare, with the rocks
standing exposed in line four hundred
yards wide and half mile long. Al
together it was most peculiar freak of
| nature.
BRIEF COURTSHIP AND HONEYMOON.
A Charleston telegram Gays: Three
weeks sgo Mrs. Matthew NJ. Ellis died,
leaving two small children. She was
waited on in her house by her sister, Miss
Mary Ramsey, and few days ego Miss
Mary and Mr.. Ellis were married. Mr..
Ellis had received pension check for 500
few days before, which he bad not.drawn,
and as one of Mays ttipulations was that
he should leaYe the children with his
mother for while, he started there with
them few hours after his mar isge, Iesv-
ing the check properly Endorsed behind
him