The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-28
made 20 understand such instructions. and per
sistcd In trying TO protect their woolly words.

The owners were accustomed TO losing a few
and figured the loss to the fixed charges, but
\ when Pinto Joined the ursine band that followed
the fiocks for a living. the loss became serious
and worried the majordomon ut the homo camp.
SO another reward was offered for the grizzly's
scalp, and the herders were instructed TO notify
the Harris boys at San Enigdio whenever the
benr raidcd their flocks.
Here Is where Glcason's part Of tho story be.
afternoon, killed four and stanipedod the Mexican
herder. who ran down tho mountain 10 the camp
of tho Harris boys, good hunters, who had been
engaged by the majordono to do up Old Pinto.
Two of the Harris boys and another man went
up 10 the scene OF the raid, carrying their rifles,
blankets, and some boards with which to con-
struct u platform. They selected q pine tree
and built n platform across the lower limbs
about twenty feet from tho ground. When tho
tree and went To where they had dropped their
blankets and guns about n hundred yards away.
One picked up tho blankets and the other tho
three rifles and started toward the trcc. where
the third wns, still tinkering tho platform;
The sun had set, but Ii was still twilight, aud
none Of the party dreamed of seeing the bear at
thnt lime, but within forty yards OF the trco sat
the man In the tree with much evident interest;
Pinto had returned to his muttons. but found
the proceedings of the man up The tree so inter-
The man carrying tho blankets dropped them
nnd seized Z heavy express riac that some Eng.
dropped the extra gun and swung u Winchester
1910 10 his shoulder. The express cracked
m l,rJ:r nn ~ thG lGl.9"'YYHG,n'si 9sl l., Iirgrk ir, ,fnio .
little lower and made havoc ot the bnur's liver.
The shock knocked the bear on his Jins. but he
recovered and ran into u thiCkct or scrub Onk.
Tho thickct WINS iiupcnctrablc to u man. and
taerc was no man present who cared to pehe'
The hunters returned to their ann and early
the next morning they came back up the
mountain with ihrec experienced and i%udicious
dogs. They had hunted bears enough Ia know
that Pinto would he very sore and ill.icmpcrcd
by that time. and. being men of discretion rs
well IA yalur. thoy had no notion of trying Ia
follow the dogs through. the scrub oak brush.
Amateur hunters might have sont the dogs
into the brush aud remained ON the edge of the
thiCkct to await Developments, thereby involv-
INK themselves in difficulties. but these old pro-
fessinnals promptly Skinned up tall trees whom
there was tumult in the scrub oak. Whenever
the men IN tho trees caught n glimpse OF the
erizzly they fired at him. and the thud OF a bullet
usually was followed 10y ycils and iicrcc RTowl.
ipgs for the bear Is a natural sort Of beast and
always hawls when he Il hurt very badly. There
il no HffcctatiOn about Il grizzly, and he never
rcprcs,cs The instructive expression Of his feel.
inrs. Probably that L. why Bret Hartc calls him
coward of heroic size but Bret never was
very intimately acqunihtcl with q marnpding
old rufiianO i the RANGE. His dealings with the
grizzly have been purely literary.
The hunters In the trcCs made body shots most.
y, but twice during the imhroSiiio in the brush
the bear sat up and exposed his head and the
men fired AZ II. but. as he kept on wranyling with
the dogs. they thought they had missed. This is
bullets passed through the bears head and did
nos knock him out. One inChostcr ball entered
an eve socket ana lfuNtfSsu the Skull tlIkpiNllN,
passing. through the forward part Of the brain.
\ sri2zly's brain pan II long aud marrow, and n
bullet Jntering the eye iy@m directly, in
not good policy 70 shoot at the. eye OF u
charging grizzly; Usually it is equally futile to
atiImpt To reach hiS brain with n sho; between
the eyes unless the head hc IN such 1t position
that the bullet will strike the skuli Mt n right an.
gle. for The bone protecting the brain in front il
from two and n half Ia three inches thick. and
VIII turn tho ordinary soft bullet; One OF tho
men did get u square shot from his perch at
smashed the skull.
The shot that ended the row struck at the butt
Of the grizzly : ear and passed through the base
Of the brain. %snuiiin: uGi the light Of his marvel.
lons vitality like u candle.
Then tn. hunters came down from their roosts,
cut their way into the thiCkct and examined the
dead giant. Counting the two shots fired the
night before. one Of which had nearly destroyed
a lung. there were eleven bullet hulr- in the
bear, and his skull WAS so shattered that the
head could not lie saved for mounting. Only
two or three bullets had lodged in III. body. tho
Others having passed through. making large
ragged wounds and tearing the internal organs
The skin. which weighed over 100 pounds. was
taken to Bakersfield. and the meat that hGd not
been spo'!cd 10y bullets WIS Gmt Up "nG SOLD to
weigh; from the portions that were actually
tested Dn the scales, the butchers figured that
old iinto wcishrd about 100 pound, ana that
fur4ia weighed. The 1000. l,Sun, and 1000
pound hears have all been weighed by the fancy
OF the men who killed them, aud the further
away they have been from thu scales the more
they have weighed.
The slaycrs 81 old Pinto realized about $50
from the sale OF the skin and meat and the re-.
ward paid by liIggin X Carr, but the $50
reward offered 10y the Bcnlc outfit was never
paid. because the bear was not killed on the
lcnic ranch.
There is no other case on record of II bear that
continued t~hting with - smashed skull and
pulrcd brain. although. such casc- may have oc-
CURED and never found their way, into print.
Gleason saw old Pinto shortly after the fight and
examined the head. aud there T. no reason To
doubt his description Of the effects Of the bullets.