The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-08-06
BEARS AFTER GRANT.
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= Mciksns County Guide,s STORY.
General, Grant was a great lover of
trout ishingf' said guide, land the
greatest Of all his outings was at Kane,
McKane county. Pa in August, 1853.
] received letter late in July Of that
year requesting that I get everything
ready for a1rwo weeks fishing tour on
the Oswayo creek. 80 -. ~a4es,
srThis stream flows through the north
western part Of Potter county. one Of
the widest forest sections. At that time
Twas living at Kane and spent all my
time in the woods hunting and, fishing.
General Grant usually was accom-
panied by one or more companions, but
this time he came to Kane alone. It
was then, prior to leaving Kane for o.
swayo creek that General Grant wrote
his letter to Secretary Of State Fish
concerning othes belligerency of aCpba.
We were delayed "a hours ON account
of that letter, because General Grant
spent the whole day in thinking the
situation oyer. The general was glad to
get the subject off his mind for the time
being, as he remarked to me- Well,
that settles Cuban matters with me un-
til return from this trout fishing trip.
I had the general. q rod and flies in
shape. We,got on my old spring wagon
and started for a farmhouse hear Sharon
Center. The roads were rough, and by
the time we. had covered the distance Of
81 miles we were tired out, and the old
horse lay down. Itwas about 10 o'clock
at night when we reached John Haber-
steen's home in the country. He had
been expecting us and assisted in put
ting up the. horse and showed us the
rooms we Were to occupy, We did not
go to the trout stream the following
day. Rest is more desirable than trout
is the, way the general put it., i
While Habersteen was not acquaint-
ed with Grant prior to our arrival, he
was fast friend Of mine,, as we had
gone to school together. General Grant
soon made warm friend of Habersteen.
"The first days fishing along Os-
wayo ,creekwas successful, and we re-
turned with number of trout 1t was
difficult place to reach, and the coun-
try simply abounded with wild game.
The general was fond of seeing deer 90
through the woods and was not a bit
afraid of bears e.
5zar General Grant was an expert fisher
man and could whip stream with any
of the pot fishers. He would never fish
for trout with bait. But if it so hap
pened that he had lost all his flies, he
would put on whatever he could find
and continue to whip the stream. The
two Of us in five days fishing caught
712 trout, all good sized ones. We ate
some of them, and the rest were packed
in ice to be sent to friends.
ST shall never forget our return from
Sharon Center TO Kahe We had every
thing on the spring wagon, including
the iced trout. After travelling about
four miles we passed through an excep-
tionally heavy woodland, and when we
were about 200 yards from the woods
two bears made their appearance. They
trotted along after us at gait that
showed us that they were gaining on
the horse They. evidently had scented
the fish and were wishing for a good
meal.
"We did not feel much afraid until
we came to discover that our guns and
reyolvers were left behind at Haber-
steen s. house.. The bears were gradual
ly gaining on us, and it was time to be
thinking about doing something.
e. 90 What's to be done in q case Of this
,kind?', queried the general 5000, :.
The only thing I know Of is to,
drive SO fast that they can't catch up,
I replied But the faster we drove the
more rapidly the bears ran. 81 1o Z,
5f9s'H II know how to get away from
them, 'exclaimed Grant ID .Wewill throw
trout to the ground, aiifewlfeet apart,
and az the, bears stop to- pick them up,
we will gain 80 much by every fish. e,t,,
s. ~, Well, that looked like q great
scheme. We began throwing the fsh
out two u three st q time The bears
began to pick them up bnt I'll be core'
tazisted + they didn't start, to give, the,
TROUT tie 90 ~ and hasten their steps to
catch M tol the Yagono ALI the time,
we kept throwing choice etrout into the
road toG cQaxu them hearsF to quit the,
sY eva conciudod that the nld horse