Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-30
HUNTING In ARKANSAS.
Report of The Christian County
Hunting Club.
Incidents Picked Up on the Trip and En-
tertainingly Told by One of the
Members.
(BY AUSTIN PEAY.)

to shine, the hoar frost glistened in
the early light, and the air was keen
and bracing. Nearly all of the boys
under the lead of Powers, Warner and
Lennox, go bear hunting over beyond
the montgomery Deadening" in the
heavy cane. Capt. White and eau
die with few remain to hunt deer
We hunted the entire circle of the
lake island, and drove the woods
next to the old Arkansas, and never
even struck trail. Evidently the
deer, if here, are not using in these
old drives. Late in the evening we
came to camp, a gloomy, disgusted
and hopeless lot of hunters. In camp
we found Baldwin, our favorite
hunter, and then the Captain, ever
tireless, ir.akes another drive in the
woods south of camp. Away over
in the woods towards Watson, the
dogs put up fawn, and made him
travel for all there was in him. We
had loosed seventeen of our best, and
they made pretty music. After
going away for some distance, they
came back and the Captain had a
shot and broke its shoulder, but il
ran several hundred yards before the
dogs pulled it down. The bear
hunters had returned and brought
with them a large fat she bear, and
the camp was elated. When they
struck the cane beyond the "Deaden-
ing" they loosed Powers trained
bear dogs, and they soon struck q
very cold trail, but with dogged
tenacity and unerring instinct they
followed it. After it became warm
the new dogs were loosed to aid, but
they soon had up a deer which
crossed and recrossed the bear trail,
and Warner put up two more deer
which ran over and over the trail
but Powers trained bear dogs never
for a moment left that BEARS track
until she was up and going. Warner
had shot at her running, as did
Pendleton and Jones, but all missed
She ran in and out and through the
cane, men and all the dogs in full
pursuit. Finally, they closed around
her, and the question was who should
have the finishing shot. The beal
had been pushed so hard that she
backed into a large hollow log. Bob
negro, ran on the log and as the
bear pushed her head out to see what
was going on he shot her dead.
There is some farce with almost
every tragedy. When the fray wa.
at its hottest and the dogs were bay.
ing, the cane crashing, the bear fight.
ing for her life, and the men closing
on her, and as Buck expressed it,
there was a "resurrection" among
the miners, in wild excitement q
dandified negro, Phil Harris, who
had been delayed in the onset, came
rushing up and shouted: "Hold my
coat somebody and let me go in the
cane and fotch her OUT 1t is use.
less to say nobody held his coat. And
again, while Garnett, and Jones were
awaiting on their stand, and Garnet
was in the act of lighting his pipe, 9
large doe ran upin few feet of them
Garnett threw his pipe away, and
fired over Jones's head, but the doe
went off apparently unharmed.
Monroe, our colored neighbor
brought in a fine lot of fish tonight
Around the campfire bear is all
the talk, and Powers related an Incl.
dent in his hunting experience which
will "bear" relating. He said that
on one occasion his dogs had run d
bear into high hollow in an enor
nous oak tree. He sent fer cr0sscut
saw and axes and from ten until two
chopped and sawed on that treee. Ir
the meantime negroes had gathered
until there were more than a dOZer
around and all with guns. Wher
the tree fell no bear came out, but i
was discovered that swarm OF bee
had taken possession, and the uppel
part of the hollow was full of honey
The negroes gathered around ant
laughed at Powers and said "Hi
dogs had lied one time" Power
told them they had better look out
Pretty soon one of them shouted
"This tree is a'movin',' and Ou
rushed the bear, knocked down thre
negroes and a white man and mad
his escape into the cane.
Wednesday, Nov. 16,-Warm ant
sultry, with indications of rain.
The whole camp conclude to G
bear hunting, as bears seem to b
more numerous than deer. About
mile from camp is Child's canebreak
Into this Powers put his traine'
dogs with the "Scatter gang" a
Warner calls them, in leash. Power
soon dup bear. The dogs RAJ
her around for sometime in the can
before any one got shot, and then
near Otter slough, Pendleton heade,
her off, dismounted, ran into tn
cane and fired a charge of bucksho