The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-30
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A man who looked as if he had been trying to
hug the cylinder of a threshing machine when
it was in motion, says the Portland Ore0onidn
was seen yesterday offering pack of furs to a
dealer up town.
.You are rather late getting your furs to
market" said reporter. who happened to be
present. Yes was the reply, but l have
been laid up and could not get to town be-
FORE
what has been the matter with your" asked
the reporter who was anxious to know how the
man had been so fearfuliy scratched
bear"
You had it bad, judging from your looks"
YES, had it bad and no mistake, but you
Just ought to see my partner
us he in worse fix than your"
"A great deal worse. He had so much meat
scratched off one side of him chat he has to
carry weight in his jacket pocket TO enable
The sale of the furs having been completed,
the old trapper was asked the story of his
encounter with the bear.
He said his name was Hans Olsen, that he
lived or the edge of the big burn in Clackamas
county, and last winter he went out on the
headquarters of the Clackamas trapping with
Peter Hansen. who lives in the same section.
Iney had good luck for awhile, caught many
minks, some fishers and found a swamp and
small lake, where there were many beaver aud
were getting q lot OF them. when deep snow
came on and about spoiled their trapping
After awhile the snow became so deep that
they could hardly move around and could not
get out of the mountains at ALL Then pro-
visions ran short, and they had to rustic and
try to kill something to eat. They went out on
the lake one day and cut n hole through the
ice to see if they could catch some trout but
did not get any.
On their way home toward night, as they
were crossing little revine on fallen tree
Olsen slipped and fell near the roots of the tree
and came down plump into a bears den The
bear was very lively for ar animal supposed TO
be asleep and at once attacked him He had a
knife and a small Ratchet in his belt and he got
out his Ratchet and began to chop and yell
Hansen, who was behind, had gun but he
was afraid to fire down in the dark for fear of
killing his friend, and at length drawing his
knife, jumped down with him and the bear
There was lively time there for while, and
the fur and clothing and flesh flew, but finally
Hansen, who was the worse used up man of
the two, managed to reach vital spot with
his knife. The bear keeled over and the two
trappers keeled over also. They managed to
make little fire with some of the leaves and
twigs from the bears nest, and there was
plenty CT rags to bandage their wounds, for
they were all rags. II was several DAYS before
they could crawl to their camp with a hunk of
the bears flesh, which had been their only food
during their stay in the den. 1t was not till
few weeks ago that they were able to get out of
the mountains, as the snow was very deep and
stayed on the ground longer than usual
Olsen says he intends going trapping again,
but he never wants TO meet another bear in his
own den again His partner, Hansen, is able
to walk around and go down to the creek and
catch few trout and look after the beehives
but he expects TO be all right by next fall