Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-24
GRIZZLY AND glsoNs FIGHT.
1t was a Battle to the Death, and There
Was No survivor.

among the FIcUCh hhii-HittH' 20 -'pt
deal bad received from them tac French
name of Baptistc. He told us the story
as we were huddled round "a campfire
in the dense forest ON The eastern side
of Lake Winnipeg from which we
and orr dogs bad been driver by q
bitter binding. blizzard storm. He
said
One summer. long ago, ! was with
q LARGE party of Indians. We were
making long Journey over the rolling
prairies, from one place TO another.
That we might have plenty OF meat to
eat two Of us were appointed to keep
about Two days Journey ahead Of the
company TO hunt and to biIl all the
game we could.
''Tbe reason why we kept so far
apart was because we had dogs and
babies and women in our party and
You know they will all make much
noise, so they would scare the animals
far away.
We'll we two hunters kept wei
ahead Some days .c bad good luca
and Killed great deal and then other
day we did not Kill much What we
g0r wc cached. so that the party could
easily iind it by the sign We gave
them when they came along We al
WAYS pul it near the trail for them.
Then wo would push on. loohiug for
more.
I'm the rolling praries the hills are
like the great waves Of the sea. only
some of The hills are about mile part
with The valleys between When we
We're coming 10 the top of one %. these
sWclls or hills. Wc would crerpup very
carefully In the long grass and look
over down in the valley on the other
side. Sometimes we could see game to
shoot and often there was nothing ri
ALL When there was mo- sign OF any
thing worth stopping to shoot as we
were after big game, having many
mouths to feed we would hurry across
TO the next hill-top and carefully look
over into the next valley.
"One day AS we had passed several
valleys aud bad seen nothing that was
worth our stopping TO shoot, we came
60 the top of "a pretty large bin, aud
cautiously looked over. There was
sight ihot we shall never forget
Right down before us, within gun
shot was very large grizzly bear and
AN' 'l- "NHdi' ou'I'. W en- t'i us tNe
wind was blowing from them To- as.
They were very augrY-lookiug and were
preparing for q biz fight. The bulalops
seemed 90 know that the bear was an
ugly customer and he looked as il he
did not know how to manage the two
of them at once.
'Forquite while they kept up what
you might call prcteucc OF battle.
The bulls would paw the ground, and
keep up constant roaring, This only
made tine pear the more angry ana II
tnrie nae oulN uern one he would soon
nave g"l ms Dig claws upon him but
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How. .n,r,,nl tba ho,r Ast,n, r.,sE.l
Of Nm hn nnicll, ,roya III nm ILL.,
L.,nnrbo. and .s tboy closed in unn,a
biu he seized ono of then, h,. tbn bn,d
md rrr, npd win a sudden iark 60
oniclI, broke bis nnrl, th,t me- frIl down
81 ,la.,d ms a STONE
.rh. older butroI, v.biab had
rbYr.rrd IA the Same tine .r,v, tine
be,t.'a fearful Thrust win hi, sbnrn
horn. nm, of which pierced hin, bn-
tween his rib. causipG an molly wou,j
rr,ln which the blood soon Le,,,p ia
now The hear HAVING killed tbr other
bniroIo tried TO seize Mold of mi. MI
a., ll,t bp b,yiu,r ,rivnn tho b.,,t. ib. ,,.r-
h wound oIirl,I II Sprano bars ontofbis
reach He RIM on for q Iittln distance
bur oe thc bear did NOT follow HIM be
,,..r l,rl ,olru There tho, Stood
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