The morning news., 1889-05-08
Great Days tor Bears.


| A contest by Messrs. Gird and North over a
i portion OF the Potrero Indian reservation, near
| Banning, Is IN progress. Daniel Sexton was put
| on the witness stand recently before the United
| States commissioner, and made the following
remarkable statements:
On eros examination Daniel Sexton detailed
| some bear stories of such fabulous proportions.
| that we have begged the stenog apher tor a
verbatim copy We do not aspire to eclipse the
| "Arsbian Nights Entertainments" and would
| not publish these recitatioDs were tuey not
| federal court. Mr.. Sections appearance as he
| launched fortl his memories OF these marvel
| GUS events, was picturesque. With eyes closed
| and head thrown back, the stream OF his dis
| course flowed through facile channels from a
bounteOuS source
Q. There were great many bears there in
| those days!
A. Oh, yesl I went out one time one even
ing from my camp, and | counted ffty bears
within gunshot of me, eating cherries.
Q. " lid cherr ess
A. TdeY were not wild; they were not wild,
because they didn't scare at anything; they
didn't know anything aoout being hurt by the
Indians-tuey wasn't scared of Indians. The
Indians never killed the bears.
Q. What variety of bears were theyf
A. Grizzlies.
Q. Did you see that more than oncei
A. B. D. Wilson said that he went up the
mountain here TO Bear Lake, and he had TWEEN.
ty.tEo men With him. Calitorn ans, and he said
tnat he counted 100 bears at one time, and they
turned out and lassoed two and two together,
and they laSSoed the bears, and he brought into
camp eleven bears lassoed-he brought them
Odd OH kill any of themf
Al tnink did. had pile Of bears laying
there, and wien Temple came out from Los
Angeles to get Lumber. showed him the pile.
and asked him how much bear meat he thought
there iu that pile. lie said be thought
about ten tons. ] think there was more than
that because think there " 5 more than ii "
bears in the pile, and think they weighed more
than 500 poun Is apiecc.
Q.-Who killed all those bears!
Al Killed them. l harpooned them. When
went to the rancherie they lidn't know how
TO make a harpoon. and took a harpoon. set
th ee or four, and ! would nave turee or four
Tears harpooned every mornins-two or thr,e
was and had seen them with q harp Don--tn rec
or four oil grizzi4s with narpoons int I'm and
dragging log and chain after the en-you would
never for ct it; you would never forget IL as
long as you lived
Q'-Wrre there any California lions around
there that we're dangerous to stockt
Al never saw bat one California lion in this
whole country, and I killed him with an az
maybe you think that isn't sol and the way !
killed him was this: didn't have a gun with
me. and went out 10 cut some timbsr with an
Indian, apd had an AK and nothing else, and the
Indians dog run lion up tree, and the Indian
toll me TO 20 back and get my gun. and told
him ''yoL will ,et him get away He on
a anal limb, and t..rew a stone at MIN aud
hit nifn between the eyes aud that stunned him
and be turned tail ami was going TO jump, an !
happel TO hit him rignt and stunned him aud
made the Indian get stones, and | continued
TO stole hlm for about an hour and a half I
tniuk and went around and stoned him on
the spine / stoned i'm until he couldn't usa
bis hlni legs, then I cut the tree down and
charged on him and killed him wtl an az.
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