Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-12-23
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What Happened Thea. Ss r0la by an Rye
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What Happened Thea. Hs ToIa by an Rye witness In . LeosI Paper.
 A second rate pugilist had been
 having his own way in a rare west
 ern town, where guns were less pop
 ulAr than fists. for several weeks.
 He knew enough of scientific boxing ' to do up the fighters thereabout aAd
 had begun Co think himself invinci.
 ble in that particular Idaho town when Josh Miller. a trapper, came ! m from the JackSon's Hole region
 with a -year-old grizzly bear am
 bling along at his heels as tamely as
 a pug at the end of string. Natu
 rally tanned grizzlies were less famil-
 lar than tho real wild ones, and 50
 all hands gathered around Ia exam
 inc the beast. of which they had often heAr,l, a. Josh had taken it
 the year before from beside its shot
 dead mother.
 Whats he good for:" asked one of the men. But Josh didn't know
 unless it was for company'S sake.
 Josh went over to the hotel and
 tried to engage a room for himself and family" but the proprietor
 had his doubts for awhile though in the end be consented. It being nearly supper time, Josh headed for the dining room, with the bear close
 behind. It would have been all right, only an easterner and his wife were there. On seeing the bear the man went under and the woman on cop of the table at which they had been sitting. Josh and bear compro- missed by eating in the kitnhen, where they warn't 70 dsrned sen. timental
 Meantime the pugilist, who was named Will Caesler, had heard about the bear. and so when Josh and his pet went into the barroom Caeslsr and several others were there wait inc. Josh ordered drinks for the crowd, and the bear got about a pint of dead shot, " well sugared, in the wash basin and enjoyed it hugely. Cseslsr got through drinking first and went over and got astride the drinking bear.
 IL is point of etiquette out west never to interrupt ones drinking. and even grizzly bears resent such breaches. The Wellsburg RuStler tells what followed;
 The editor, who was present, saw a gleam in bruins eyes at this moment and notioei that the near est door was not open. He opened it. Josh noticed the bear. too, and he got up in the corner where the bar and wall meet. The bear shook and Caesler spgawled on the floor Caesler got up swearing and kicked the bear in the shoulder in a way to bring a grunt, but the dead shot seemed to have made the bear gen tier, for he grinned, with drops drib- bling from his open lips. Josh. We noticed, got on to the bar with one leg on the far side as the bear raised on its hind legs and held its fore paws in front of him like 6 dOwL east woOdchuck. It was intensely amusing to Caesler to see the bear standing SO, and in Q spirit of play fulness, his anger all gone, he led with bis right. landing on the bears lower jaw, and followed with q left handler on the neck with a swat that WAS very audible. The bear nodded and grinDed his appreciation while the men, except Josh and us. gath cred around to look. A right and left followed, both landing smartly on the bears tenderest spOt-the end of his nose. Then the bear reached out and mopped the pugil- ist's face with his dirty left paw. following with a cross wipe with his other sawdusty paw. finally giving a surprising straight punch that landed on Caesler hard enough to knock Bill Lawrence, who stood di- rectly behind, down, but Caesler was still on his feet wildly waving his hands as if to keep his sntago- mist at a distance while finding his wind.
 The bear took two steps forward ! and got 6 slight down scrape on the 1 nose again. There was a double l 'spat' and bump Caesler was ly l lng in the corner all doubled up | The doctor found that his jaw wSs in three places.
 Josh said today that he was very l sorry for Caesler, and that he had often boxed with his pet. Josh IS a quiet man and one of the few that Caesler never licked nor tackled. Mir. | Caesler is a valued citizen, and we hope that he will recover, having the assurances of the doctor that be probably will if no compli-