The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-05
rHe CHAMPION BEAR STORY.

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As.ss.~ Q-sch .s Kettle Creek Catches .
0roce ~g 1Bear tw an Odd Way.
KETTLE CREEK. uct. ai.-A sol
Quick, who has a.. cabin on Zig Kettle
Crec~, saw ~ lively illustration of tire fun
loving propensity of thu Pcnnsylvania
an exciting manifestation also OF the dir
position of bruin tai tear things. Quick
was deer hunting i'm with THREE
other hunters. and occupying his cabin.
hunters discovered that u hear had been
providing around il. and had actually been
making an eH1r' tn h.,rsiariac IL. He had
but Quick knowing ~ thing ar two ahs".t
hears, declared this hear would hc hack
I'm vointcr eit that bar" said Quick.
IAN I'm counter git him peculiar
SSs, m%r"ims 1ni;k nr%,''',sa :" Lay
trees that were about the cabin
was a whi.e-oak sapiinH. five inches
10 the top. which was iwrnty:nvc fee,
above tho ground. The sapling was
straight from l";, To 'ip: s.nick eiimhed
his traps i'm tho cabin was several feet of
small but strong rope. Quick deity tied
rope. by tile combined efforts of the four
men the .ak s,piilg WAS hsnt Owe
:" Until ,h,. its mI WI Wh;, Within I'm. tres, .'y wa. heidi ,ri
ina that position Quick tied the rope 49,
curcly to the np, and. by am Ingenious ar
h hnH Sr%s"r.a for fox , H"" nc"a.i"n. he soa y"
had the nu'sc end of the. rope fastened on
the ground. by this the bent sapling was
slightly touch the Deliberately arranged
sticks ON thu ground To release the rope
and permit the sapling to slip back tn its
place. The trap was So, close tn tn" cabin
door. :,
said Quick '.bnt u il dnn't work, then !
don't know bars"
The hunters then went out on the ridge
with a tempting piece of pork jus, inside
the sill. a mile from the cabin the me
sspara,.d to go To- diii:rrnt ruiiwiys.
the ridge me caught his foot on "a root and
is a genuine woosisInan. and IL le had re-
ceivsd any physical injury in the fall IL
must have been serious To- cause him any
hottie La, had i'm his pocket and the com
tents wcrr lost. 'Ther. was nothing left
ha, iad"%.., the air. II Mas
a cold day and there were
tn In possible long hours of weary waiting
Thcrs. was al the cabin more of what the
bottle had contained. Quick stood his
f."dunnrt.r.. HI" s,opn..T .a"sins,siS
over the bear trap at thu. cabin door. and
~as filling n new hs,ttls. from - demijohn
his head and look o,t Of the door. He saw
n mcsiiunn-siz'sl bear making n bee-line
feet back from he door. but the bear svi-
IDENTITY saw nothing but the piece
Of pork; ri. bear never
snars. that lsssi been laid for him, aud got
both ~f"rcfcet inside the loop. Tho s.pling
a c%iim,n.y. Tim. bear .lis..p,s.arei from
Quick'S view at the same time, But th.
next second he appeared on the line of
around i'm the open space. in front of the
cabin like a ball on am elastic string. The
E"I% h .,ah r 81 ;I,. f t,,r bear "r wi,n ,xs bod" ~.
fort he made. 4" free himself the s;spling
raised him IL foot ar two from the ground,
baby jumper. The bear snapped and
snarlcd aud -n"rt'si. He struck and
some particular vicim,s Imrrh. Ic beat III.
sapIing So he could throw himself
!at "n his back, hut Instantly the
work i'm again and yank tho bear back ln
thc air until everything snapped. The in
aihn ~. ',,"S O., ~, .n..I I'ru nx '| |
last had TAI yell with laughter. II was not
until then that the. bear discovered Quick.
and he seemed Ia look upon the hunter as
being r.slnnsiiblc for his extraordinary
situation, for he at once, made desperate
out with Quick. n" wonId manage. to
dance and swing to til" very threshold,
and then his frantic. struggles would giv.
would lift him mp and sIatcl, him away
his legs spreading Ost tai all points of the
compass. like "a big spider swinging at the
end of its depending web.
When this had been repeated three or
four times Quick began to fear that he
would burst with laughter and the bear
with fury unless something WAS done. tn
put u stop Ia the circus. Quick's gun was
a mile away. He was about to look around
and see what he could find tokilI the bear
with when hc SAW another bear, "a good
deal bigger than the one in the siIsrV,
coInc rnbling ont of the pushes. This
one stopped within u few feet of where
the first bear was bol,bing and spariug
around in front of the cabin. and gazcd at
the performance IA minute ar two in evil
dent establishment. Then tlt. fun of the
thing seemed tai strike him all i'm u heap.
too, FOR he drew nearer and rising on his
Launches. took to giving the shared bear
"a tap or two with his ~forepaws AS the sap
plinR danced and tcs.tcrsal him around.
That Increased the fury of the SHARED
bear, and le turned his attention from
Quick, and tried to get his clutches ON the
bear that Was tantalizing him. But he
couldn't stay long enough in one place to
make n success OF IL.
After giving the dancing bear n clip n
good many times AS he circled around. the
other bear seemed To see still more fun
than he was having, and. watching his
opportunity, he grabbed the first bear 10y
the back and ran across the opening,
pushing him ahead Of him. When he had
gone as far as the rope would let him. he
Ravt. the tasar IA last and a hpnrfv shave