The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-12-09

struck ou for q gzSzze
woods, bounding one side o. ere mead
ow. He had not been gone five min
utes when from out the thickest depths
rang Mortified Shrek, followed by a
frenzied cry of:
"Here, men, here! Hurry! Oh, for
Heavens sake, hurry!'
Dashing like madmen across the lit
tie plain, we reached the distressed
youth in a few moments, and then saw
a fearful sight, indeed. In the midst
Of a patch Of trampled, blood-stained
bushes lay the seemingly lifeless form
of poor Joe. The scalp was stripped
from the front part Of his head and
hung down over his eyes. His left
shoulder was frightfully lacerated, and
the arm on that side badly mangled,
and broken in two places; the clothing
was torn from the upper part of his
body, and on his naked breast. gaped
four ragged burrows, evidently plough
ed by a single stroke from the claws Of
some giant wild beast Whatever the
enemy, it was obvious that the old
hunter had made desperate fight. for
all the chambers of his revolver were
empty, and his knife encrusted with
gore, while the underbrush around was
beaten fiat and the ground trodden in
to blood-moistened dust.
Peter, dry-eyed, but piteously moan
ing, was lying by the senseless BODY,
tenderly clasping it in his arms, and on
seeing US, exclaimed: "My poor father
has been killed by a grizzly bear; and,
so help me Heaven; I'll never taste food
till I've destroyed the brute. Life is
no use to me now"
why, Pete, my boy" said DR.. Lew.
is, who had knelt by the old mans side
and was holding pocket flask of bran
dy to his lips, "your father is not dead.
He'll regain consciousness directly
Meantime, you run to the camp for my
instrument case and tell our friends
there to hurry along with the spring
wagon. a few blankets and such other
articles as they know will be neces-
sary."
Actually hugging the doctor in his
joyous revulsion Of feeling, and softly
kissing his fathers unhurt hand, Peter
sprang to his feet and was off like a
shot 'ioing and returning, he must
cover nearly mile, e,sbut in less than ten
minutes he was back again with the
little box of surgical instruments and
some clean clothing for the wounded
man, now sitting up and in full posses
. sion of his senses. On seeing this. the
affectionate son dropped to his knees in
an ecstasy of thanksgiving and fairly
wept aloud for joy.
Two minutes later the wagon thun.
dered up to- the edge of the grove with
our comrades. who had thoughtfully
brought splints, sponges, bandages and
most needful of all. two covered buck
cts full of warm water.
Then. assisted by his pupil, Fred
Reid. the doctor cleansed and stitched
in place the pendant scalp, dressed the
breast and shoulder wounds. set and
: bound up the broken arm and made his
patient as comfortable as possible. But
the tough old fellow would not ride
back to camp. Accompanied by DR.
Lewis and Reid. he actually walked
coolly telling the wagon men to be sure,
when ready to return, not to forget the
grasshoppersl And | may as we'll say
right here that in less than two months
he was sound as ever, though around
the edges of the replaced scalp appear
ed a semi-circular streak of snowwhite
hair.
1t seems that on going for some pur-
pose into the grove he almost tumbled
over, not grizzly, but an enormous
= cinnamon bear. at which he rashly
fired. Then ensued terrific fight. end
ing in apparent victory for the sey =
brute, which, though wounded by six
revolver bullets and a number of knife
thrusts, somehow managed to get