The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-01
INDEPENDENT, ROUGH, AND HUNGRY.
This hear Was All That and More, but Ne
Fresuued Too Much at Last.

most impudent one ever killed In Pennsyl-
vania." said tho Hon. Rodney S. White Of Pot
ter county. was killed In the Allegheny River.
about half a mile above M store in Roulette.
The old fellow had been lurking around Will
liam Ruby's farm. q couple OF miles from Rou-
lette. for q week or so. One night he killed
five lambs for Farmer Ruby ana made way
with three OF them. The next night he killed
and ate q sheep on the same farm. Then
Farmer Ruby shut the rest Of his sheep in his
barn. The old bear came ~foraging around the
next night. and. not finding any mutton, got
mad and made q raid on tho farmers milk
house. which stands within twenty feet OF tho
kitchen door. The noise he made woke Ruby
UP. and. going to a back window. ho saw tho
bear. after falling to effect an entrance at tho
milk house door. tear the roof from it's fnsten-
inCs on the beams ut one side Of tho building
and lift 1t clear OF the beams as easily as IL 1t
had been q loose rail on q fence. and the roof
was fastened dow by eight-inch hickory pegs
driven four inches into the beam. The bear
then let himself down through the opening
into the milk house. and by the rafting and
banging he made among the pans inside the
amazed and frightened farmer knew bruin
was having a large time with the products Of
tho farmers dairy.
"Aftor banging around inside for q while
the bear burst the door open. and walked out
apoh NV shHo Vi Nlo I'll
farmer-the night being bright moonlight
with a 12-auart crock which was nearly full OF
pure cream. The boar stalked forth on his
hind feet, carrying the crock embodied in his
arms. He walked up the hill a couple OF rods.
and. sitting down on his launches with the
crock in front Of him. and in full sight of
Farmer Ruby. showed one OF his great paws
into the cream and carried it to his mouth.
The rich stuff suited his palate exactly. and
for ten minutes he sat there carrying pawsful
Of cream to his mouth as rapidly as no could
lick Thorn off and get his paw back into the
crock after more. Then he set tho crock on
the ground and disappeared into the woods.
The next night Larry Lyman. Potter coun-
ty's great bear hunter. placed q big steel trap
in Farmer Ruby's milk house. feeling satisfied
that the impudent old prowler would come
back in hope Of securing moro plumber Of tho
same delicious sort. Farmer Ruby sat up
with a gun and a big pistol to wait for the
bear and fill him full Of lead as soon as tho
trap closed on him. Sure enough. along about
o o'clock the bear came out Of the woods and
door had been, left open. and after smiling
about in q suspicious manner. bruin went in.
howl that raised his hair. and tie next a'1 sec.
ond out Of that milk house came the
one e" q his IS hind hin trI isct. "4 TSe t Eas i had q sea S9
srsp. f snS eiSr to fo # sy and a lpp pite insIn sb saa S Sssii
Farmer .Ruby's Kitchen door. The Sight and
the terrible noise scared the farmer. SO that.
had Intended: he dropped, his gun and his
room. The noise finally ceased. and the
farmer y%entured back to the kitchen window
S bear WAIKIKI Walking o away n on G lis hind in ', fset, d sss ins
the heavy trap. but carrying the clog under
Early the next morning Farmer Ruby came
to Roulette with the news, that the impudent
big bear had been trapped. but that, he had
2 short time Milo Lyman. his father. Larry.
being away. gathered together, twenty,-one
this extraordinary bear down. they struck
his trail not far from Ruby's house, and it led
ward Gt tSe A ths hills n HiSo aeF Tss h snG | Sna tGt
followed the trail long before they discovered
that bruin had become tired Of draCgi =! the
through the brush on all fonrs. gnashins tic
he went, and tearing up bushes by. the roots:
ne had not gone Tar in this way before he had
path. In his blind fury he did not turn out for
the log. but went over it. The clog had caught
i nsd bed t Would 5oE Fave to be move s r waifh pui Hut tor Of 4
team Of horses: But that intIriated bear had
kept right on when the clog caught under the
the chain Of the trap fast to his foot until the
to a dead pine tree, fifty feet high. the stub of
% Tad al, was 2 tHGgSd shell lsstt the TOP T., the bs%r
around one Of the jagged az Sides Of the .' shell sIIiIa ut
the top. and then dropped from the stub, The
shell broke. and he fell to the ground without
ACCOMPLISHING his supposed object. which was
the tearing loose of his foot from, the trap by
dropping from tho tree, while the tran was
had tried to accomplish the same. thing by
climbing q leaning hemloek and twisting the
broken with his weight.
n, lathe 20 1 Ter II ,aEs Of is the h tb bear nS WAS sos noT Gi as
slashed and torn and CRASHED everything that
iay In his path. cutting a REGULAR swath
Last h. had come to the tangled DIN mass so Of roqts
into that tangle tho clog ran and became i'm
movable. Within reach q the bears, paws
tEro1p two oG s%ses t amo ffapl hemioc four tree inches iss
bear had reached out and RTasped one of the
GGh ,@ $ o ssplbiH In AM and bs snd fHS snn nc to c} nnil
to tho ground. Then no tried the other young
chestnut. and pulled that one up By, the roots
Z aHSsi Il The s'f hs@ a she 'H That fA wit list" d his his
roots OF the fallen tree,
from the trap had DELAYED him, in his flight.
hhnd when saat The he hunters rnti rs !. ea sI;e, to the trap ard tho
e~th ~ so
dent cry. Dan Jones. one Of the party. was an
experienced bear hunter. and he calculated,
from the way the bear was headed. that the
crossed the Coudersport, road. half q mile
above Roulette. and he told the others to keep
on the bears track. and he would take, a
short cut and try and get to tho runway by the
party had not overhauled and killed him be-
fore, The two docs were two Of Leroy Ly;
scores o: bears and never been worsted; but
the hunters had not followed them a mile boz
foro they met them coming back. two of the
worst licked. dogs that ever went out after
bear. They had found more than their match
In this fierce and touch old campaigner.
Dan Jones got to the run all out OF breath
and Just in time to see the old bear come down
of OF the hill. cross this road. coolly remove q
couple Of rails from a fence between the road
rods Of fiat; plunge into tho river. and
hold his gun steady enough to take aim at the
rest on u rail. Nothing OF the bear was visible
but the topof his head; Jones drew a good bead