St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-19

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tilt at the bear and thrust it deeply into
his chest. The bear again disappeared,
taking the Jacobs staff with him. ana
appeared no more that night. The fol-
lowing morning, search being made, the
bear was found dead some yards from
the cabin, with the staff thrust through
his heart. 1t proved to be a female, and
was severely wounded in several places
with rifle balls. Subsequent inquiries
elected the fact that on the previous
day party of hunters from George
town had captured two cubs and
wounded the mother, which had es-
capped. This was evidently the same
bear in search of her cubs, hence
Her Curious Actions.
One morning, in the same summer.
and at the same camp. the miners had
lust arisen, and had cooked and were
eating their breakfast. A large iron
pot had been filled with beans to stew
over slow fire during the day Tor the
common meal in the evening. A liberal
slab of bacon had been put in with the
beans, and the odor thereof was spread
ing OH the morning breeze. Probably
attracted by this, a monster grizzly
came slouching into the midst of the
camp and began nosing around for
something to eat, paying no attention
whatever to the afrighted men,. The
latter, with one accord. Stampeded. and
made for the nearest trees. In mo-
ment some fifty men could have been
picked like ripe apples from the tops OF
the surrounding pines and oaks. Not a
man among the lot had even a
revolver OH his person, and they
simply had to sit on their perches
and watch Old Ephraim demollsh
their pot OF beans and bacon. ImS ne
did in most deliberate manner. tie
first knocked the pot off the fire, and
smiling its contents over the ground,
proceeded to gather them up when cool
enough for comfortable eating. After
picking up every scrap of food to be
found in the camp, and overturning ev-
ery tent in the place, he walked Off as
deliberately as he came, followed by
the cusses of the despoiled min
ers. AS soon as the men
had gathered their wits they apprised
the men of a neighborlng camp, got all
the firearms procurable. and followed
bruins track up the mountain. None
of them being expert crackers, the trail
was soon lost, and they spread out,
forming a wide drive. One of them, a
little lrishman named Shea, came to a
very large cliff of rocks, the face Of
which he proceeded to climb. When
about halfway up, and just as he raised
his head above shelf of rock, he gave
A Terrified Yell.
And was seen by the men on his right
and left to tumble backward and roll
to the bottom of the rocks. His COM
panions all rushed up to ascertain the
cause of the trouble, and see if he was
seriously injured. The breath was
knocked out of his body and all the
sense out of his head, and all he could
say was to gasp out: 'Howly mother!
Is it dead l amp" On his
finally becoming, assured that
he was still alive, he pointed
up to the shelf of rock, and with his
eyes bullying out like a Holsters. ex-
planned: "By's. that diyil of bear is
lynn up on yon' rock, an when poked
me head Hp the murtherin divil blew
me backward off the rock wld wan
blasht NV his nose! Och, may the hiv-
ms be my bed this blissid night av Pm
not sp'akin' the livin' TRUTH" Surely
enough the bear was there, and was
soon killed by the united fuSilade of the
whole party.
In the spring of the year, somewhere
early in the fifties, party of five left
the mining camp of Coloma for the pur-
pose of hunting deer for the market in
the locality of Mosquito, Canon. Meat
of all kinds was then very scarce and
high-priced, and a carcass of venison
was worth two ounces of gold dust,
although poor and out of season.
Therefore, hunting was profit
able occupation On the morn
ing of the second day in camp the
party separated, each going his own
way to hunt, and at night it was found
that one of thr members, named
Broadus, failed to appear. Thinking
that some accident had bfallen him, the
others started out in different directions
to search for him, the next morning,
| and, after day spent in fruitless search
ing, they returned to amp only to find
that another of their number, named
William Jabine, was this night missing.
After an anxious night. chiefly spent
in discussing the probable fate of their
missing companions, the remaining
three started out the trail OF Jabine,
he having told til m the previous morn
Ing that part of the country he was
going to travel. Slowly and carefully
| following the tracks left in the soft soil
and broken heritage, they found him
| about noon. terribly mangled and UNI
| conscious, but alive. The flesh Oh his
| face was torn and lacerated in fright
| full manner, and he was otherwise in
jured in his chest and body. Further
search revealed. near by, the dead body
| of their other missing cOmrade seated
on bowlder, by the side Of small
stream, with his head resting on his fold.
| ed arms, which we're supported by she'll
| of rock in front of him. His whole I'M
| der Jaw had been bitten off and torn
away, and large pool of clotted blood
| at his feet showed that he had slowly
bled to death, after having been at
| tackled and wounded by bear. The
ground showed evidence OF
A Fearful Struggle,
being torn up and literally sprinkl ed
with blood for yards around. The mer
were shocked and terrified, and, hast
iIy preparing litter, they slowly anC
! painfully carried Jabine to the nearest
| mining camp, whence others went t
bring in the body of Broauus for decen
interment. Jabine finally recovered
but he was shocklngly diSigured fol
life. He afterward told how he came
upon the tracks of Broadus that fata
morning, and OH reaching the Spo
where Broadus had received his death
wound, he was suddenly dashed upo1
by huge she bear that was fol
lowed by two small cubs. The
bear had evidently been severely
wounded by Broadus. and was in (
terrible rage. She seized Jabine before
he could turn to flee, and, falling will
her whole weight upon his body an(
chest, began biting his face. He soor
lost consciousness, from the pressure OIL
his chest, and remembered no more
The poor fellow become misanthrope
owing to his terrible Disagreement. an(
was finally found drowned some few
years ago in the river near Coloma, hi
death having occurred, as was general
ly believed, by his own act
In the summer Of Isl man named
Jebson, or Jephson, from Missouri, wa
mining on the American river some
where near the mouth OF Shirttai
canon. He had a Portuguese partne
named Cardozo, and it seems they hat
bad luck mining, and finally con
cluded to go on hunting trip
as venison was still very high
priced in the mines, being the onl,
fresh meat to be had the greater por
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