Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-17
I'M AND HE CINNAMON BEAR.
An Exciting Episode In Which BTuin Was
 TreAfed tO a Surprise

 An EzCitinK Episode In Which BFuin Was
 TrsAsed tO a sarPris@
 Of all branches of railway engi- neering there Is none which brings the officer into closer contact with a hardworking lot of men than the maintenance of way work. Some times there are comical features even in this department, and one of these was recently told by 8 well known engineer, who hides his real name under the pseudonym of Jerry Sulli- van. It Is 8 tale of one Tim, track walker, who came in late one night and reported to the other occupants of the bunkhouse that he had been delayed by an extraordinary enooun- ter with a bear Near the indo of the section, '' said Tim, "close to the old tie camp was comin along about S:S0 o'clock, and just after crossin that little bridge I heerd nize of sumthin rustiin in the bushes down at the bottom of the dump and think in it was rabbit fired @ rock down into i'm, and in a second there was terrible slAshin around in thin bush es and see a big cinnamon bear come out sneezin and rubbin his Rose, and thin, before rightly come
 to me sinses, the bear seen mo and up the dump he come. We'll, start ed down the track as tight as could go, but I hadn't went two telegraph poles until I look back and sec the bear still comin and gainin on me livery jump. So dropped me adze and rinch and stretched meself for all was worth. But it was no use, the bear was still gainin, and I was wonderin what on airth I was goin to do. whin see the iron pipe under the track near the out and made for that and wint in just clear, whin the bear damned his head in at the ind. But he was too big togo in, and he couldn' t reach me, and So he paw cd around and snorted and bit the ind of the piPe and tried first one side and thin the other. But was safe, and I lied there and panted and blessed the man that invinted iron pipe.
 Well, I thought the bear would go away after awhile. but he didn't. Re staid right there, wid his head in first wan ind of the pipe and thin the other, and when he came round to the upper ind I wished had held on to the rinch So l could hit him a belt over the nose. After bein in there over two hours I begin gittin cold, and see somethin had to be done, and I thought I'd try smokin him out. So managed to light me pipe, and thin I smoked for all knew how, but the bear still kept his head in the hole, and crawled up closer and blew the smoke right in his face. He snorted a little, but wouldn t back out, and seemed to be gettin madder all the time. Thin, when was nearly froze to death, l happened to think of the stick of giant powder in me pocket and, thinks I, Now, I'll settle your hash. So I puts fuse in the stick of giant and crawls up and threw it right un- der the bears head, and thin touch ed of the fuse and backed down to the other ind of the pipe. I guess that bear thought l was goin to run away, for he run across the track to the other ind Thin, whin crawled back to get me feet out of his reach, he crossed back again and stuck his heed and neck into the pipe just as the giant wint of. Widout thinkin, I had made big cannon out of the water pipe and whin it wint of ] was fired out and landed in the mid dle of the river and was nearly drowned before knew just where ] was at But finally struck the oth- CT bank and got out and wint up to the station and hagged the passenger and rode home. After olimbin up the bank looked back and saw smoke ! ocmin out of the lower ind of the 1 pipe, and the bear still lookin st the | upper ind and tryin to see phwat had 1 "-St Louis Globe Demo srat