Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-02
WHITE PAW IS DEAD.
Squaw Mountains Great Nan-k Hing
Ecnr EnGEeG ut Last.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The woodchOppers who have been coming
down from the sloppy timber yards of
Maine during the past two weeks have "a
lated many tales of adventure in the
bears woods" above Mooseh ad LAKE AL
trough some of these are exaggerated re-
productions of ancient yarns, it is reason
ably certain that the bear harvest for the
spring of 1859 has baen large one. The
town treasurer of GrecuVille paid out Sta
for bounties on bears in one day last week
Shirley has invested $40 in ears and paws,
ard the treasurer of Sebac has expended all
the available cash on hand and drawn
town orders for $3.50 to Sa tiSfy the legal de-
nlands OF the hunters
But the best piece Of news yet brought in
* thdt of the undOing of the big mau-eat-
ing bear That has lived among the nrags of
SquaW mountain for ten years or more
Since 1SSS this bear has killed and eaten
mere than a hundred sheep in Piscatanuis
county He has slain score of cattle and
hGrsaS, and robbed more pig pens hen
rOCsts and bee houses than all the thieves
in three counties In 1892 he met a French
man on the shores of Squaw lake, ana lust
because the Frenchman was lame and I'M
ARMED, the bear took advantage OF HIM
Killing him and devouring half of his body
Having gained taste for human flesh the
bear seemed to lose all fear of man In
August 1894. he killed two girls who were
10
back from Shirley village
for months after this hundreds of men
did nothing but hunt bears Stimula led by
a cash reward of 5000 subscribed by the
suests at hlneo the gunners and trappers
secured the forests from the upper end of
MooSA head lake at Dover. Before the
hlackherries had gone from the hills TWEEN
ty-three bears had been slain, but the mar
eater was still at large.
Late in October John RuIduc a Errap.b
man from Willimantic. caught the prize
bar in a trap, but when he saw RuIiuc
coming hruin pulled his paw through the
sharp teeth, leaving the skin of his fore
leg between the jaws, and went snarnog
and iimping to the woods a hundred wards
away. After this the bear went into wint ar
quarters, and when he came out in the
spring the lame leg was well again, but
show white Thenceforth the bear was
Known as White Paw" a name which
chung to him until his death.
The cause of White Paws undong dates
back to the winter of 1897. Squaw noun
tain is the steepest and most craggy emf
Renee in Maine. From it's top to the foot
of MoOsehead lake the distance is not more
than mile as the crow flies although tbe
footpath which leads to the summit is four
miles long. The mountain was clothed with
great thickets of spruce from base to sum-
NIT, and. as no team could climb it, the
owners of the land built long chut, of
logs, which, after winding about the sides
IN easy curves, made a straightaway run
for the lake.
The chute is a V-shaped trough with one
log al the bottom and three logs on eac h
side. When the chute has been filed with
dry snow log that is started on its DOWN
hill course loses no time in getting to the
lake. There have been several accidents ut
the chute the past winter. One log, going
at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour
leaped from the trough, went clear through
a log camp, bringing the roof down about
the cooks ears, and then pounded itself
into toothpicks against bowlder In Feb
ruary escaped log came in contact with
at the knee.
When the spring came on and the snow
grew moist the woodsmen shifted their
| hours of work and sent the logs down in
the night, because the snow was frozen at