The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-30
HELp WANTED ON ELK RUN.
A Colony or hears Has squatted There, snd
Seems 20 ne Running Things.

A Coiony or bears Has squatted There, .ns
Seems to Ne Running Things.
ROULETTE, Pa, Sept. a0.-"say, II some on'
don't go down to Elk Run and give folks a lift
said Dan swartz Of Ganzley's Clearing, they'll
be scared crazy by bears. We can't imaginC
what's got into the pesky critters this fall
Some folks say II is n lot OF bears that are trail.
ing through the country going east to get into
the back woods. and some say they amt travel.
ling through Mt all. but have just squatted In the
Elk Run district because things suit 'cm there,
Not in ten years have bears shown up in such
squads, and none that was ever there before ever
showed such lmpudence and snssiness. See what
one had the cheek TO do the other day at Miles,
burg. lie came lcisurely down out Of the woods,
crossed tho bridge over Bald Eagle Greek,
and walked deliberately up the only
street in the place. There were people
In the street ut the time, but they got
out Of IL on the double-quick. Horses snorted
and tugged at their tie straps, but the bear kept
right on his way. Before he had gone far some
dogs got wind Of him. and came bouncing and
yelping on the scene. When the bear heard the
dogs he turned and went plumb through Jim
Weaver's picket fence, smashing IL down as IL
IL had been made of pine stems, and took a short
cut out Of town toward the woods. There didn't
seem TO be anybody in Milesburg who was
anxious to go bear hunting, and the dogs went
on alone. They followed the. bear up into the
mountain. There we're Eve Of them when they
got back, and they looked rs IL they were. sorry
they had gone. The general Impression in Miles
burg IL that the other two will never come back.
Bears just dOte on doing up dogs.
The Dushiel brothers have got their corn all
cut and the crop Is good: Last Monday a neigh
and said that n big bear was down in one of their
back fields husking corn at . lively rate, strip
John Dashicl took his gun and went down to tie
field to protest against having his corn husked
in that way. John has ideas about husking corn.
Sure enough, when he got To the field. there sat
q, great big bear, with his back against one
on the ground in front Of him, tearing tho ears
from the stalks, stripping the husks off Of the
ears, and then tossing them this way and that
way. He wasn't eating the corn, but Just hav-
ing fun with it. HuSked ears were scattered
about ON the ground. here. there, and every
where; and the bear just seemed ticklcd all but
'Thunder!' says John Dashiel. This beats
The bear hadn't seen John, and John was
700 lar AWAY to DO credit to his gun. SO he
to another. and another, and so on, until he got
within easy shot OF the bear, Then he blazed
ssW NyS b1 AGcG wdlIS : to what What in, n, say, It would
that bear after John blazed away. The bear had
an ear of corn In his paws, In the act of huskng
IN. his operation, cooked his head on one
side in u listening attitude, held it in that
hind feet, still holding the ear Of corn. walked
all around the shock as If looking for some
down again and resumed his corn husktng..
"sThunderH says John; Didn't hit himr
fac. "s % John ,ba an hre saI AGAIN. ga r.. The , bear nedar r Jumped three
WOW, theinr says John Dashiel. ,Husk my
Then John started in to reload his gun. He
thought the bear was dead; But the bear
fore he had ramined the powder down in one
barrel the bear rolled over, took u leisurely look
at John, and then got up and disappeared among
"'ThundeTN says John ,DashJcl. THAT bear
Is dead. sure! What business has he got to go
prUwlin' round in this field nowT'
John finished loading his gun, and then fol-
lowed the bear, expecting TO come on its dead
way. though. when he saw the bear clear at the
other end OF tho field. nonchalantly seated
against one corn shock and husking corn from
".IhundeT! says John Dashed. That darn
Just then Johns brother Henry. who had been
70 town, but had got home after John left the
house TO disturb the bear. came running down
10 the field. He didn't have any gun, but he had
fire in his eye. When John saw Henry coming
he had got within shooting distance Of the bear
didn't stop to listen that time, but dropped his
rorn husklng aaa went Off toward the noun
Iains, liInping and hOw.ing.
haint no spook, after all
after the bear. and from the way IL Jumped
md increased its howls John knew that he had
nit IL again. |
Darn you!' says John. Now go somewheres
You bet he will, says Henry Dashiel. who
iad got there py THIS time. But, for fear he
And away Henry went, hot foot, on the trail
Ohm stopped To load his gun again. and he had
one barrel loaded. when he heard something
md 10 af ~, lie saw Henry coming on a dead
ilnd him was a bear putting In its best licks TO
K % nj Ein i + PEW bear JohnF yelled Henry.
sure enough, 1t was a new bear, and a bigger
ne than the one that had been husking The
5 Henry brought the bear along by It he put all
he lead there was in one barrel OF the gun into
hat had struck him John emptied the other
arrel into him and he fell dead between two
orn shocks.
thunder says John. / never know'd what
- Henry ran clear across the field before he
or even looked around. Then lac got on ,
he fence and looked back.
Did you reap hin, John r says he.
John swung his nat and hollered, and Henry
idn,t follow the corn-husking bear, but they /
link he is hing dead somewhere in that VI
X Run, Why, last saturday three boys went ,
lt hunting rabbits near Jake simpsons farm, /
hey hud no right TO be hunting rabbits. be. !
'ys, They sts!ed 4 rabbit, and it ran :
ms fields. One Of the boys went In ,
the shock ard kicked il 10 scare the rabbit out !
.bblt came out in "a hurry out'Of one side OF the =
rock, but neither boy shot it, for on the other h
dG a bear tnmbled out and surveyed the youth i
Ibbit got away and so did the boys. The bear e
ms a~fterwnrd killed in the same field. These ~
WA on Elk Run. Somebody ought 10 70 down q
aud help the folks" \
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