The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-16
THE BEARS WERE DAZED,
Aud Before They Got Over It Jim Campbell
Says He Killed All Four OF Them.


HARRISBURG. April 15.-"My friend Bob NAL
does he p said the Hon. c. w. Williamson OF
up the Susquehanna- well. Robert is right
for once in his life. Bears out? Very much
out! Go ask Jim Campbell OF Peters Noun
tain. Jim isn't q bear hunter. but he amt
afraid Of bears. Hos q wild turkey hunter
and the other day he heard a rumor that
there were the greatest signs Of turkey over
back OF the mountain that had been known
for thirty years. So he started out to SEQ what
there might be In the rumor. He tramped
around all day In the district where the al
legged wild turkeys were lying low. but they
must have been lying lower than any wild
turkeys ever lay before. for Jim Campbell
couldn't find en-. nor any sign OF EN-. Then
Jim turned his face to go home. and as he did
80 he stopped short. and. as he assures me
himself. had to set his teeth tight shut for a
minute or more to keep his heart from jump
ing clear out. And good reason. for there on
q barren rise OF ground not moro than twenty
ya-ds away stood four bears-fourb big ones.
THE bears maintained 80 unrufied and ap-
parently uncombative n front that the old
s saMtHns no his hs eape went essu b"ek ' to it's Hp pIaes.
and he stood content to nccept the bears as Il
substitute for the undisc3yerod and doubtless
aky and their eyes fixed in strangely calm con;
for turkey. but, as a Charge that will sue
g he dust Is MIR, pretty y 40, o,t to b liable aSlS
bear. he was a. we'll liked for the business he
now had in hand as II he had Iammed down
Jim looked the bears oyer. and. not expecting
to bag more than one Of them. selected tho one
thss s Sonia On DO H. bim r liz most Sa !e es.d iIne an. ns 'b bia 4ns
nway. sending the .heft OF one Of his barrels
plumb between bruins eyes.
Ions tear away from there as fast as their legs
only SURPRISED but sSsssy When he saw that
the bear he had shot did not fail. and that the
FINER ;I three never moved, an inch. The bear
ana looked as II he would like to have som
s cnrr explanation Of such s1 unexpected oc-
Then he came to Jim's relief by dropping like
a stone ton and he lay without a Kick.
foun ndhs pearl ran three Somp mnxo% seemed see, DUN,
tracks. and looked irsl at Their prostraie com.
70 taa a,c ana dd then Ct the hunter. Jim was not used
lieying that IT would only be in the course OF a
s MoaId tune tune. when those three dazsd bears
he eonclpded hat the Best thing Tor him to DO
than could not be avoided. lie sent n seconi
GharGe OF turkey lead into the bear, that was
dow. By t The sIde o M e.; in the right. and Il went
out q nurmur The two REMAINING bears con.
tinuod statuesgue and gazed at one another
IN a puzzled and undecided waS. as il unable
70 sgree upon a satisfactory course of action.
Before they, could come to nm agreement Jim
sea sp 2 1919 q mn int pu the third bear on M line.
lust begun TO break upon that bear. Tor he
dlant take mis- medicine puietiy as his prede-
MS head and roaring. like a mndbnii.' Tho
eense anu struck MN too late. though. for no
stayed there.
When this third bear backed away bowling
tho FOURTH bear turned and looked AT him until
ne ieii. Then the last bear faced about again
,,rThe look on that b'ar's face says Jim. In
day. What il the name o, Sam HiiiTSss" the
mstnin, Of all this anyhow p" / didn't give
nm time to find out any furder. but pllnked
PIN IN, he umbled lest like t'other uns. But
that At hi aos nntea, was hnpin', all along.
urrsct hisssli. SOS he could pitch In and have
stoass I ortH.t . draved bead on EN- SO ,ans.i,
sasf ySi 49 as .twasn't gisip' 'sm 2 iaiI show
thsF weighed over 2oO pounds Gpiscs."