The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-25
A Battle wisA Hsala.

A bear which has had it's lair near Ph@nicia for a long time past has again been seen by many people at once, and this time an exciting adven- ture is annexed to the tale, eays tho Troy StGMdavd. Friday an Ulster & Delaware railroad train was approach ing Ph@niciA. The cara were filled with snmmer visitors. The news quickly spread among them that . huge bear was on the track ahead oi the engine. Suddenly the passengers felt the speed of the train slack and bruin was caught sight ot. He had left the track and was making his way to Q field of grain.
 In the foremost passenger car was c New York man named Martin, who was on his war ar the Stony Cove on fishing expedition. Martin, 1t seems, before leaving home had bragged to his friends that before leaving the Catskills he would kill . boar and bring with him the skin as rug for his parlor. Martin sAw the bear mAk- ing for the grain field, and the thought flashed through his mind that there would be good chance to capture his prize, and ct the same time distinguish himself in the eyss of the fellow rae- sengers on the train.
 Jumping down, Martin ran with the speed of A professional in tho di- rection of the bear, which was about half way over the hodge that inter- venes between the track and the fence at that spot. At every stride the clumsy brute uttered low growls, but these ominous warnings did not deter Martin from his mission of capturing the animal. At the moment bruin left the hedge to vault the fence Martin made a desperate lunge, and he suc- ceeded in grasping che creature's stump of tail. A crash followed, and the people in the cars witnessed . scene that was alike ladicrous and danger. ous.
 The fence had broken down, and the bear had entered the grain fold, drag ging Martin, who still held bravely to the bears caudal appendagc. The ex- cited passengers shouted to the luck less fellow to let go, but Martin needed not their advice. After being dragged a distance of thirty feet his hold slipped and the bear, relieved of his load, turned his head, growleti savagely, and, showing an ugly set oi teeth, quickly disappeared in the way ing grain.
 Martin was assisted to his feet by one of the train hands and half q dozen passengers. The would be hunter limped painfully and he pre- sented rather dilapidated appear ance. His face was scratched and bleeding, his clothes wore torn, and there was not single button left on his vest. His trousers were filled with splinters from tho broken fence. When Martin was put aboard the train he still clutched tightly in one hand bunch of hair that he had pulled out of the bears tail, his sole memento of his first bear hunt in the Katskill mountains.
 When the train started again Mar tin was on board, but only for . little distance, when he was helped of near a cozy looking farmhouse, where his wifs patched him up, not forgetting of course, to ply him industriousiy with questions all the while. Not only Martins wife, but all the in. mates in the house, Inquired # he had been in threshing machine, and how he liked 1t. He had been plagued nearly to death about trying to cap- ture bear by the tail, but his pluck is admired all the same. The bear is still at large, and 1t has been seen on the railroad track of the Stony Cove railroad near Kaafarskfli Juncffnn