Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-03

and all at vonce / poke me mine torch
right against de pears nose, and he shust
give one shnort and pillow me mine light
oudt. | tell you get me from dere oudt
pooty kowick" The scheme was cour-
ageous one, but its ending was ludicrous.
He had located the position of the bear,
however, and few rife shots soon ended
the hunt successfully. OF course the bear
was a black, for as before stated no griz-
lilies are now known to exist in this sec
tion Of the State
A story of club-foot grizzly having
been seen around the neighborhood of
Lake Tahoe every now and then crops up
and goes the rounds of the local press. On
one occasion it came out, some eight or ten
years ago, and created quite sensation.
A circumstantial tale was told, | think, in
the Carson, Nevada, papers, how a wood
chopper had gone out to his lonely work
in the neighborhood of Truckee, and had
never returned; and search being made,
only his axe and his shoes, with his feet
still in them, were discovered, but that
unmistakable signs showed how he had
been surprised by old club-foot while at
his work how ne had climbed a small
tree to escape; how he had been shaken
ont of it like ripe apple by the enraged
brute; and had, then and there, been in
eontincnlly eaten up and deynured, all
but the aforesaid axe and boots. This
created considerable local excitement at
the time, and about one hundred hunters
assembled, from far and near. at Truckee,
aud organized hunt for this formidable
animal. The mountains were secured for
three DAYS, but without finding either a
trace of the bear or any foundation for the
story, and since that time old olub-ioot has
become a tradition only.
In the autumn of one of the early fifties
DR.. II. W. Nelson, now prominent sur
geon in the city of Sacramento, but then
practicing in Greenwood, was out quail
hunting. He had Gouble-barrel gun
loaded with the proper charge for that
kind of game, and no other weapon or
means Of defense with him. The doctor
was making his way up ravine, in n mar
row trail bordered with dense chaparral,
when suddenly band of hunters from the
neighboriug mining camp of Georgetown
made their appearance ON the mill above
him, in pursuit of large bear. Some of
the party saw him and shouted a warning
that the bear was coming down the ravine,
and for him to break for dear life The
doctor was equal to the occasion, however,
and coolly shouted back to "let him come
l am ready for him." He had a theory,
based upon some previous investigations Of
the anatomy of bears head, that charge
of shot in the end of grizzly's nose must
reach the brain and prove fatal. Coolly
cooking his gun, be awaited events. In a
moment or two the bear appeared out of
the brush, not over fifteen feet away, and
on catching sight of the doctor resred up
for Il charge. The latter has often since
averred that when the bear erected him
self upon his hams he appeared to be at
least twenty feet high. Never for an in
slant losing his presence of mind, the doc
tor took quick aim and lodged the con-
tents of both barrels in old Ephraim's
snout, and he tumbled over as ignomin-
iously slain as was Goliah with David's
pebble.-ForeSt and Stream.