The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-07
THE BEAR PASTURES.
Mountains About Lake Wenat-
chez TEEN With Game.
WILD FOWL OBSCURE THE SUN.
The Greedy Wolverine. Which Fights
the Wrestling Bear-Here IL
Paradise for Sportsmen.
Ellensbure Register.


ago from the headwaters of the Wenatchee,
where he has been spending the last nine
months in hunting and trapping. Mr..
Nightwine, although he does not claim to
be professional trapper, is crack shot.
as he brushes with ease the ashes of
cigar. when a man is in the act of smoking,
and also planted a hole through 10-cent
piece held in q mans hand at the distance
of eighteen yards.
During his stay in the mountains he
killed fifteen bears, eleven OF which be
killed in six days. One cinnamon, two
black and twelve brown. He also cap
tured eighteen beaver, one otter, nine fish,
ers. twenty marten, five mink, and three
wolverines or gluttous. Also two lynx and
deer, whenever he wanted one. Deer were
no object. Ducks and white swan inhab-
tied the lake by millions. He saws it was
black with ducks and white with swans.
He killed eight swans, and could lay in
bed and shoot ducks out of the cabin door.
and grouse and chickens he had to kick
out of way in the trail. A large flock of
Arctic geese made short visit to the lake.
Here is also the paradise of the angler.
Both mountain and lake trout are here in
abundance, which bite readily at the hook.
Only portion of the lake froze over dur
ing last winter. as he caught trout in the
middle of January.
In one of his excursions he had travelled
all day and was returning home and con-
cluded there was nothing he wanted in
that locality, when passing over small ra-
vine where the grass was very tall, he sud-
denly espied two bear cubs climbing up
tree not more than ten feet away. They
began crying, when suddenly up rose the
old mother bear to investigate the trouble
not more than twelve or fifteen feet dis
tant. She Immediately rose up on her
launches and commenced to dance around
like pet bear performing in show. AS
soon as he saw her be drew down bis gun
and aimed for her throat, when the gun
snapped. She hearing this, Immediately
came for him with her mouth open. He
was afraid to risk the same cartridge
again. and threw the shell out and another
in, when by this time she was within six
feet of him, when he shot her fair in the
mouth, the bullet ranging down through
the neck and along the spinal column
which caused her to drop in her tracks.
He soon disposed of the cubs. as their fur
brings good price, being soft and downy,
The glutton or wolverine is known as
the skunk BEAR" and is built low on the
ground and are very heavily muscled and
are very vicious, as they will attack and
whip a bear. They have received the
credit Of robbing traps from time imme-
mortal, but the way Mr.. nighttime placed
his traps he never had any trouble. He
always took them in. Their chief food is
birds or meat of any kind, and are very
tenacious of life. Mr.. nighttime male
from the returns of his trip some $3.50
besides having a whole lot of sport
The lake is located on the line of the
Lake Shore and Seattle road, and in this
vicinity there is lots of gold. silver and
coal. His purpose is to return to this Sec
ton the coming winter and secure some
of the white swan and ship them East for
the geological gardens. He left this week
for the Sound, and will spend his time in
this section until the time arrives for fall
trapping. There are the finest pleas
ure resorts for summer camping
around Wenatchee lake in the whole
Northwest. and there are settlers
living from the mouth of the Wen
atchee to the lake, the distance being
about fifty-fve miles. The lake is six
miles long and about two miles wide. On
the norshwest side of the lake the upper
Wenatchee comes in. and on the north west
side the stream is called the White river.
These rivers head on the summit of the
Cascade mountains.
Cathlamet Gazette: Last Sunday while
George Halfway and d. Fl. Prescott were
fishing on the forks of the Elokomin they
saw large cougar standing on log.
Prescott shot at him but failed to kill him.
The boys say he would easily measure nine
feet in length and weigh $50 pounds. Lots