St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-10

Killing my pest COW, you Dig rascal! s..
A THIRD RAGGED.
1T was all over now, and we went up
to the cows carcass to see the other
bear. 1t was she grizzly and lay dead
about forty yards from the cow. This
was the boys bear, and he had shot her
III the heart, head and through the fore
Notwithstanding it. He had done
the best shooting of any of us and was
very proud of his craftsmanship, as he
certainly had right to be. Next M rn-
ing we skinned the bears and buried
the dogs. The old he fellow dressed
about 1000 pounds and the female bear
500. We gave the meat of both bears to
the old farmer and the skin of the fe
male bear, but we have brought you the
hide of the old monster"
Here he unrolled a pelt that would
easily have incloSed go0d-SiZed horse
and something to spare.
THE meat of the bears will keep the
old farmer and his family all winter,
and the hide will bring him easily S24,
while the bounty is IS, which the boy
will draw from the county and send to
him. So the old farmer does not regret
the loss of his cow, especially as he says
he got vengeance on the old scoundrel
that killed her.
After that" said Caldwell, 1--WE went
out to trail the wounded bear, taking
| old Tom, the other dogs being too much
used up to go. The trail was plain
enough, being marked by blood all the
way. Old Tom pitched along, straining
his rope, and had to kick the old fell
| low once or twice to make him behave
himself. He was kind of disappointed
with the proceedings of the night be-
| fore, and seemed to say by his actions:
L will show you fellows how to hunt
| bear
After following the trail for about
four miles we came on the bear, or
rather on his carcass, for it had been
killed and eaten up all but its bones and
hide. Even the bones were licked
| clean, and the tracks showed an i'm
menSe pack of wolved had attacked,
killed and eaten the wounded bear. So
we thought at the time and went back
to the old farmers house.
COMPLAINING OF WILD DOGS.
''JuSt as we had packed up and were
! about ready TO start home, two other
old farmers came up on horseback and
! immense pack of wild dogs had attacked
their sheep herds and destroyed over
forty sheep for them.
They had heard of us and begged
us to come over to their place and de-
Stroy the wild dogs. They lived only
FIVE miles from the old farmer, and so
we went.
I'VE got the men to gather up all the
| dead carcaSSeS of the sheep and bring
them into the corral. Then we divided
| the live sheep off from the carcaSseS of
! the dead ones by building stone fence
through the middle of the Enclosure.
| Next we opened the gates of the corral,
| the sheep being prevented from going
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caded small shed in the. corner and
| got into it. We didnOt occupy the she'd
| until long after dark, as we knew the
| dogs would not come until near mid
| night. We could get into the shed from
| the outside of the corral, and so took it
| easy at the house. The moon came up
at $50 o'clock and made everything
almost as plain as daylight. Every once
| in while some one would go out to re-
connOiter, but all continued quiet.
! Twelve, and 2 O'Clock came, and still
| no wild dogs. We were getting awfully
| tired and sleepy and began to give up
hope of seeing the wild dogs that
night, when all at once we heard the
| sheep bleating and q great racket
| in the corral where the live sheep
were cOrnered. They have got among
the sheep cried the farmer. and grasp
| ing our guns we all ran as fast as our
| legs would carry us to the corral. The
| sheep were huddled together at one end
of the corral and piled on top of each
| other i'll their terror to get away from
something that had frightened them.
| We were about to climb over the fence
and get into the corral, when the old
| farmer called out:
Look out! there's bear
''Sure enough, bear had a sheep
down by the fence and was killing it.
l. Bang bang bang! went the guns,
and there was a big roar of pain. Then
the farmers called out: Here are two
more BEARS and moving around to the
shed saw two bears in where the car
casSes of the dead sheep had been left.
The boy was right behind me, and we
opened on them mighty lively. All
three bears were badly wounded, but
they all got away. Not wild dog was
house we began to chaff the old farmers
Oh their wild dog story.
BUT IT WAS BEARS AFTER ALL.
"'You Will see, said one of the farm
ers. 1t was bears tonight. but it was
wild dogs last night, and it will be wild
| dogs again before we get through with
this job The old farmers agreed to
watch and call us up if needed, and
thoroughly tired out with our. two
nights of adventure we laid down to
sleep.
=" 1T was nearly So'clock next day
when the farmers shook us awake and
told us TO get up. They said they had
let us sleep as long as possible, know
ing how tired We were and hoping we
would arouse ourselves, but seeing we
were going to sleep all day, they. would
call US. We were soon up and dressed,
| oil fol rf,I I1r bnd NV
sound sleep. .,
mo dogs had come to disturb the
sheep. and the farmers had gone out at
daylight and followed the trail of the
bears. There was lots OF blood, and
the trail led straight to the canyon.
All three bears were evidently badly
wounded, as the trail was plainly
marked by their blood.
after hearty breakfast it was pro-
posed we should follow the bears. The
farmers said they could not have
gone far, as there was so much blood {:
even if they had succeeded in reaching
the canyon they would lie down as soon
as they got into it. and would be easily
found. Old Tom was put on the trail,
and all we had to do was to lope along
behind him. He led straight to the can
yon, which was about four miles dis
tant. Just as we entered the mouth Of
the canyon old Tom began to give
tongue, as he always does when
nearing his game. We whipped
up and were soon going over logs
and rocks at fearful rate. Pretty soon
the canyon became so rough we had to
dismount and tie our horses; then we
kept on on foot. We had gone about
two miles up the canyon, when we
heard great noise ahead, and on round
ing the bend and coming out from be-
hind some big rocks we saw sight the
like of which we had neuer seen before
and no doubt never will again.
AT LAST THE DOGS.