Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-13
HE KILLS BIG CAME.

Extraordinary Hunting Feats of
 Pennsylvania Boy Only Thirteen
 Years Old.
 Charles Whelply is the thirteen year old
 son of George Whelply, foreman in mill No.
 of the Calcott Mill company, writes a New
 York Sun correspondent. Although every
 other person in this region thinks more of
 hunting than anything else, it was not until
 year ago that young Charley Whelply had
 an idea that he had any taste for that kind
 of sport. In fact he had never fired off
 gun until last September, when he happened
 to win second hand FIobert rife that some
 one put up to be rafied for. Young Whelp-
 ly began shooting at 8 mark with his rife, and liked handling 8 gun so well that he went after squirrels and rabbits with it, and before the season closed had killed and sold game enough to purchase him second hand breech loading rife.
 Last Christmas day he accompanied his father and two other hunters on bear hunt to Orwig's Swamp. He refused to stand where Gray Poole, the champion hunter of the neighborhood, wanted him to stand, al though Poole declared that just there was ! where the bear would most likely come out when the dogs started it. Charley selected his own spot and the dogs were put in the swamp. The instinct of the youlg hunter was correct. The bear, a great hulking monster that thrashed the laureis down for yards around him as he came tearing for the open, burst out of the jungle within twenty yards of where young Whelply stood. The space across which the bear had to pass be- \ fore he would be hidden again by the thick growth of underbrush on the other side was not more than twenty feet wide, but before he got across it the boy hunter sent ball behind his shoulder, reloaded and put anoth- CT ball into bruin, and the great bear dropped dead, without even his head having I reached the thicket. The bear is believed to have been the largest ever killed in the re- zion, its weight being four hundred and fifty pounds. That was the only bear Charley had an opportunity to kill that winter, but he collected bounty on sixteen catamounts that he shot before spring opened.
 This remarkable boy hunter opened the I summer season by following she bear and three cubs from Wallace's Barren to Fegley's Ridge, ten miles, where the bear family took | refuge in an opening in the rocks. Charley built fire of hemloek boughs at the mouth of the opening, and the dense smoke rolled \ in among the bears. The old bear came up to the entrance and, crawling half way out, began to beat the fire out with her paws. She was interrupted in her work by bullet from the boy's rife, and the aim was so sure that the old bear fell dead at the opening. Charley climbed to the spot, crawled by the body of the bear and let himself into the ! cave, from which he brought the whining, f kicking and scratching cubs, all three of which he led back to the mills in triumph. Last Friday young Whelply purchased a revolver-a six shooter. The same day he { started up Pine's Creek to go to bank where some log drivers were rolling logs into the stream. He had gone not more than \ quarter of 8 mile from home when he was \ surprised to see bear come out of the woods \ on the opposite side of the creek and wade deliberately into the stream, heading for 8 ! point on the other bank two hundred feet up E the creek. The spot where the bear entered the creek was not more than thirty feet from \ where young Whelply stood, and the boy \ whipped out his pistol and blazed away at bruin. He emptied all six of the chambers, \ and although three of the bullets struck the ! bear, as was shown by his jumping up in the \ water and growling as eaah of the three bull \ lets pierced his flesh, he did not turn from ! his course, but kept on disgonally across the creek, climbed out at the spot he had started \ for and disappeared in the woods.
 Charley Whelpley had no more cartridges \ with him, and 80 he ran back home, got his rife and started in chase of the bear. It was evident that the animal was striking for Three Mile swamp, big stretch of laurel \ and tamarack at the foot of Wallaces Bar \ ren The boy hunter cut across through the woods, believing that he could intercept the
 bear before it got to the swamp. He came Il to an old log road mile from the creek. He l was hurrying across it when he heard loud ! snort, and looking in the direction from \ which the noise came, he discovered the bear ! wallowing like pig in a mud hole at the ' side of the road about thirty yards from | where the boy stood. The bear discovered \ Charley at the same time, and f1eundered out ! of the hole and slouched hurriedly across the road toward the woods. The bear did not
 reach the middle of the road. A ball from
 the boys rife lod5ed behind bruins ear and ! the big baute fell dead where he stood.
 Young Whelply started toward the dead bear when, glancing up the high bank on \ one side of the road, he saw the head of an- \ other bear peering out from th1eket of ! scrub oaks Charley sent bullet between the bears eyes and the bear tumbled In tho | bushes and rolled down the steep bank, landing at the young hunters feet. The ! boy's rifle was not empty, and when the bear, after lying few seconds where it had fallen, l sprang to its feet and rusbed upon the boy ! with blood pouring from it's mouth and the ! wound in the head, the hunter found himself in dangerous predicament.
 He ran backward down the road, loading as he went, and the bear hardly at arms length and coming savagely on. The race ! lasted for about three rods, when Charley gun was charged. He had no cause to use it, however, for he raised it to fire the
 bear rose suddenly erect on it's launches and
 fell backward in the road dead. Charley got
 help from the mills and the bears were
 brought in, both being very large ones.
 When they were dressed the discovery was
 made that the first bear the boy had killed