The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-09-11
PLCCKY KATE 7ICE.
she Lnshed u Thievi.h Hear Until It Turned
on Her, and Then She Shot Il.

SCRANTON. Sept. 1O.-Ellis L. Tice OF Gold
enrod Mountain and his twenty-year-old
daughter. Kate. started forthe little hamlet
Of SINNERS Creek on Saturday morning in n
one-horse blackboard wagon. On Friday Mr..
Ticc had set q bear trap in the edge o! Tama-
rack swamp mile and u hall from his place.
and on his way to the village he thought he
would run over to the swamp ana seq II tho
bear had been caught. He put n loaded rifle
under the seat to shoot tho bear with In case
he found that it had dragged the trap away.
and in the hind end Of tho blackboard he laid II
smoked ham that he was going to trade for
goods at the village store.
When Mr.. Ticc had driven to n point In tho
Hitchcock woods ncnrcstto the spot where no
had set tho trap, no reined tho horse to the
side Of the road and told his daughter that he
guessed he wouldn't bother to takc the rifle
along. It wasn't at all likelJ. no said. that the
bear Ind got caught in tho trap 50 soon. but
It wouldn't axe nm more than iitrrn MN.
ut"s to run over an sec. and II no 'ulnd thnt
the hear had luggcd the trap away he would
como buck and get the gun.
soon rs her father had started foy the swamp.
Slo became absorbed in u story right away.
but she heard somoihing moving hehind the
wagon. Sho paid no attention to It 1T irSt. SO
deeply Interested was she. in the tale, but
presently something, pushed against the back
saw a hear clawing tho smoked ham toward
it. Miss Ticc jumped up and shouted. and the
bear sciZen mo low string in its teeth, yahkel
tho han, nn the blackboard. wheeled around.
and waldied away toward the swamp with tho
ham swinging from its JAWS.
seeing that her shouts had no effect on the
thievish brute, Miss Tice grabbed the WHIP
sprang ron the wagon. ran after the bear.
md w,th al Hh her misht began lasning it @ nn5
Miss lice kept IN and piled the whip mt every
s;op. The cuts Of the lash made the bear vince.
but y chung ~ tho ham as though II was
lpunu 10 Jug IL 10 tlp swarm, Inh bear EllTl-
cd and snortcd whenever the whip struck its
head ana nose. and Miss Tice put on the blows
ali me hhrdei Inc more, noise 1t MADE nhn
s,tid, later That she WAS determined to coml.l
the bear to drop the ham. and that she didn't
intend to punish it atterward.
Betw.el fifteen and twenty. rods from me
wagon tho boar lung the ham into The bushes
ana with u savage growl turned ON the Young
woman, Miss lice gave it a cut oyer the nose
as she lacked away from il. hut the hcar wns
now full of rage over the main II was suffering.
and it plunged ut the plucky girl and almost
struck her down. The bears claws tore Miss
Tees skirt loose. and She turned and ran to,
ward the wagon and shouted Ms loud, as she
could. Tho boar chased her tn the hurkboard,
where Mss lice wheelGd and cut II over thr
head with the whip ill It turned tail ana
started FER the swamp again, in.
Miss Tica happened to think OF tho rifle
then. ind she pulled it from under tho seat.
cooked it, nirnod it at the bear., and pulled the
ned on is knees with a belloW snd began to
Tor the bullet had lodged in the base o! its
brain. and II was stretched out dead when Mr.
dauGhtcr had shouted and tho rifle had gone
OIL. lie hadn't founI bear in tho trap, and
he WAS satisfied that Miss Tice had killed tho
Identical bear that he had set tho trap ior' ar.
he and lis dauShter loaded the dead bear on
the blackboard and took II to the village.