The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-29
MAN UP THE TREE
HOW He TRANSFERRED AHEAvy RE.
SPONSiBlLiTY TO Or. PAIEN.

HOW He TRANSFERRED AHEAvY RE.
SPONSB!LlTY TO DR.. PALEN.
The otdy Wild Bear the Doctor Ever Saw
In Tire Woods Confronted Him When he
Went 10 Help His Fellow Man-There
Was . Hard Fight.
never saw but one wild bear in the
woods in my life, and lived in back
woods locality until was nearly 30" said
DIR. Palen of Troy. ''Not that there weren Z
plenty OF bears in our woods, but l never
went out looking for any and didn't hap
pen to run against any in my travels.
This articular bear and had fight. and
good one, and | will not conceal the fact
from you that the bear did not kill me.
But he unused me up enough to satisfy
any bear, and the man who caused all thu
trouble never as much as had his hair
rumpled. The man who introduced me to
the bear / never saw before. l don t know
what his name was, and have never seen
him since.
Il was on my way to see a patient who
lived seven or eight miles from town on a
backwoods farm. was about half way
there when heard some one hail me-
looked IN the direction of the sound and
saw in the top of a small maple tree, or a.
near the top as he could climb, a man who
seemed to be excited. The tree wasn't
more than 20 yards from the road and a
thick growth of underbrush was between
1t and where l was. I stopped my horse.
nelloP hollered the man. Come
over here an see wha. We kin do to'ard
gittin teller down out q this tree, won't
We? l got up here durn quick, but got
to have help fore kin git down agin.'
What are you doing up there any
how I hollered back
. Waitin to git down, replied the man.
Not another durn thing, an you kin help
me
81 got out of my wagon and made my
way through the thick bushes toward the
tree, thinking all the time that this was
queer customer had struck. got through
the brush ana came out into quite large
opening where the tree stood, and in
stantly saw that the man had good reason
for saying that he'd have to have help in
getting down out of the tree Raging
about the foot of the tree was a big bear,
mad all over, and evidently having it in
deep for the man up in the tree. l stopped
RI the edge of the thicket as if l had been
rooted there. The bear wasn't ten feet
away. As SOON as l could regain posses
zion of myself l began to back cautiously
eway, intending to get TO my wagon AMI
let somebody else take the job of helping
the man out of the tree but the bear had
discovered me, and linking me in some
way with the cause of the trouble between
i and the man up the tree came rushing
toward me with q growl that betokened
the ugly temper bruin was in
Il had seven shooter with me- and as
the bear came toward me l couldn't think
Df anything better to do, so l pulled the
revolver and began blazing away. l put
five balls III the bear before he cleared the
space between the tree and the bushes
but he came right on. / turned and made
for the road and my wagon in way that
made those bushes crack, the bear smash
ing along after me. I'd have made ths
buggy all right if it hadn't been that when
my horse saw the bear coming out of tho
bushes me didn't wait for me TO get into
the wagon, but went tearing away down
the road rs fast as a badly scared horse
could run | sped after the runaway, and
the bear came right along after me. He
gained on nie, and / turned and fired at
nim again
Il don't know where the bullet hit him,
Int it knocked him down. He was up
3 gain, though, in less than no time and l
gave hi,n my last shot, and as he didn't
Gall ! ran for high rail fence at the low
er side of the road, intending to get over
Ii and cut for q farmhouse that was half a
mile away, across lets. / got to the top
rail, but wasn't quick enough. The bear
grabbed me as ! had mounted the fence
the rails smashed down beneath our
weight, and over and over we rolled to-
gether into the ditch at the side of the
road. In that short roll that bear man
aged TO strip me almost completely OF my
clothes from head to foot, and in the tuIn-
bic my knee was spru;ned, and my arms
and side were dug deep by the bears
sharp claws. / though it was all up with
me, and c nsequently was surprised when
we landed IN the ditch, that the bear sud
denly relaxed his clutch, gave two or three
gasps and q kick or two and
iidn't move any more l scrambled up
and sprang To the middle of the road, where
picked up "a big stone, ready To Use it on
he bear il he returned to the attack. Bus
ne didn't Ee was dead And if he hadn't
been an unusually tough old customer he'G
nave been dead long before. Every one of
my seven shots had gone to vital spot,
As | found ont aftcrwaTd-
Before limped on my way in the wake
Of my runaway horse | glanced At the ma
ole tree The man who had hailed me |
WASH there had helped him down, for 4
/ fact and he had disappeared. l had /
imped a mile or more, I guess when a |
Big, strappin2, red faced fellow came out !
If the bushes at one side Of the road, and |
with a grin said:
= Did We git him, cap'nr
at was the man of the maple tree. /
believe it was good for him that there |
WASH another shot in my pistol. pull
d it out of my pocket anyhow, and the
nan was swallowed up so quick in the
ldshes that l hardly knew that he had
reen in sight. | never SAW him again and 1
ont know what had occurred between
lin and the bear before he took TO the
rec 4 little way farther on | met my 4
lorse coming back with a man who had
topped il. and | told the man he could
ave my bear if he'd go get it, which he
i'd 1t WAS more than 800 FOUNDER, they
aid 1t seemed TO me, when ii landed on
ne on that rail fence, that 1t was a 600
'ounder IT least A nd that WAS the only
,ear | ever saw in the woods, and I've
lever helped man down out of tree
ince New York sun.
Fashion.
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