Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-20
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 Il have heard and rad many
 thrilling tales of adventure in the
 vest said an old timer the other
 day, but have never hearl or read
 one that equaled an experience of my
 own way back in the sixties. l was
 tendeifoot or the thing would never
 have happened: at least not just in
 the way 1t did
 Tt was in the summer of 1888. and
 myself and two other fellows, well
 known all over tho state today, were
 prospecting, and were camped in the
 hills near the head of one of the trib-
 utarics of Alder Guleh- Grub was
 mighty dear in those days. and we depended 10 great extent on the game we killed for our meat. was the best shot in tho outfit and did
 most of the hunting.
 ''One day was out looking for deer when l saw whopping big sil- yer tip way up on the side of a noun tain that was sparsely covered with timber. It was the first bear had ever seen. and at once determined to kill him. So crcpt cautiously up the mountain. keeping out of sight of the bear as much as possible got within 100 yards of him, and taking careful aim just back of the shoulder. 1 let drive. The bear feIl at the crack of the gun, but he was on his feet again in an instant, and without stopping to take any aim at all he came tearing down the noun tain in bee line for where l stood. My rife was a muzxle loader, and l had no time to reload 1t In fact, l don't believe I would have had time to reload Winchester just then. l was not half so anxious to kill the bear as l was to save my own bacon.
 A tree stood below me. and with. out stopping to measure it's si.c or to consider its adaptability as place of refuge sprang to it and went like a coon chased hy . pack of hounds. l had reached the lower branches, about ten feet from the ground. and had not yet thought of looking down. when l heard the bear scratching at the foot of the tree and imagined he was coming up after me.
 Well, he didn't come, and when had climbed about as high as could get l straddled a limb to await de velopments. Bruin stood on his hind legs and scratched about peek of bark of the tree, growing and snari- ing all the time. Then he got down on all fours, and rf'rr walking two or three times around 'l,e tree be finally lay down, resting his head on his paws like a big dog.
 ''1 began to feel cagy now and con- graduated myself on my fortunate escape l thought the bear would soon get tired of keeping watch and would get up and go away. He did of the kind, ho'kever. and hour after hour l sat there in thas tree. watching the bear imagined l could see him move occasionally, and each time thought. Now he is going to get up But he lay still, and finally began to break branches and throw them down on him. and yelled at him until 1 was hoarse. It was all in vain. There he lay, and he seemed determined to remain there until he starved mo out. My situation began to grow desperate. Night was approaching. md already l was so stiff from my cramped posi- tion that l could scarcely move. must be done, and it must be done quickly. There was but one thing to do. and that was to get out of that tree.
 My rifle lay on the upper side. and the bear was below the tree. down to the lower branches, and breaking of Q few of the small er limbs l threw them down at the bear. He did not move. He must be asleep. I thought. and now was my time. Carefully and noiselessly shinned it down the tree until l was within six feet of the ground, when sprang off on the upper side, grabbed my gun and ran like a ,cared wolf to some rocks fifty yards away. When safely behind the rocks l peeped out. The bear had not moved. Then l loaded my gun. md drawing a careful bead with a lead rest over rock, l shot the brute square between the eyes. Still ie did not move. Again I loaded my rifle. cooked it and walked eau iousiy toward the bear, When Jose enough l picked up stone and struck him with it He did not seem o mind 1t any.
 Then mustered up courage to approach close enough to poke him with my gun. He was as stiff as a poker and had been dead for hours. 1 had been in the tree all day, treed 1 ,y dead bearl As said before, 1 l vas tenderfoot then. New York | sun.