The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-25

rayine. The den was at the east end apd the
bear had occupied 1t 80 long that he had worn
Joe, the, hall; breed. who discovered the rum
way and the den. and he hung about for three
| hours to get sight of the guine. Old Ephraim
| finally came In from n promenade. and Joe
came to camr and reported;
Well, | have found him, and he Is the
| biggest bear ever born in Idaho.
AZ said. We had invented various plans for
marked down. one OF the cute lodges was to
doctor piece OF meat with morphine. doc
| Rramme. We dosed a haunch OF venieon and
hung T. up near the raytpe, but Joe. who wa.
away We tried second piece, ard a big wolf
got 1t. Then We turned to our bear trap. We had
brought with us The biggest. stoHtest trap eyer
Il would hold an elephant. This trap was .et
that a fox would have trotted right onto the
ever. lie made half circuit around the trap,
ana after day and night wolf walked Into
mds sps 81 fR BeSns dSSa
iarIat. but The bear turned aside and avoided It
s' hT fsHs Rsn T mouth Ta SGn
meaning that heavy log should hold the bear
but though we haited It with choice meat he
YVES w TOO sharp Tor us - 49,. p.,-.,
cur defeats. the half-broed suggested a very
one coming y at P pisht ta Angles For
tuns,tely for us the soii was sott and deep. and
aboY df dep yd
snread b 9I Ara airt When pSf WORK
1o, trace. So far as we could Judge, the bear
q. most ne. Of hi. roaming By aGy when
70 third day, Thon we made Circuit along
leaving trail, and at o'clock In the forenoon
all Of US were well hidden except Joe, He sat
and With N stick he kept k fuS' 1SHgo ant
tanning on the rock. The sound was one to
eESte the ephrosity Of any snina ard was
down to see what the G noise, sisniaed. At The
70 s:Ie up, The Situation All he could SEQ was a
growled. but didn't seem to be looking for
trouble, Joe got down from his perch and be-
and It was only after bruin had been hit the
s5d that h. got ana ma h Hn4 fds h
like Eraveetones he came on, but as he struck
the pit he tqrpe"d end-over-end and dsap-
We had our bear at last, but hardly had our
shouts Of exultstion died away when We began
nr o on bsa ga pit Is
on f h1 back we might have noosed his legs but
that there was lots OF trouble ahead, We de.
signed to throw, moose over his, head and
@ but WHEN he d %a had HR Har ffede s%n axe
day he was at. ahead OF the game and wo
we're yery much discouraged l. wRs finally
left nextnornipg at daybreak; During the two
and drove them to .Se so at h s eoom 81
the RI. so az to contract the space and we
didn't allow the work to go on without objec-
tons he tore out many OF the stakes and
last he got SO mai that he had a sort OF d. WV
Ihe MESSENGER . returned With enough chic
70 pn. S@ o 20 see ef the
th"ssthe}E Iphraim IN wHs EaTs to the last hpt
hauling rope around MS body, BY means OF
gether we got the big bulk out OF the pit, but
i vas two hours hard work and we had to use
we resecu1rd his legs and bound him fast on ma a
travels Only one horse out OF the six
f9q he be got %oad ba n to ap s &
miles over rough country by man power
n aHT2RRs eses o tn. S9t e Gn
our captive stupidly good all the after
noon. and before we went into camp for. the
after dark he began to file objections He
Erowled couGhed. snortedi and strained, but
every body awake oil night. but we had some Of
the chloroform left and we used it to quiet him
DOWN. III TOOK day ana haH longer to get
him down to the railroad station and then We
found we must turn to and make a cage to ship
him in. BY this time he was also suffering for
food and drink.
We got six turns Of lasso around the bears
body and to these we fastened two chains and
secured the other ends to trees. Then we cut
hls lashings md got out Of the way. Tho nr-t
thing he did was no lap up about two gallons
Of water. the next was 10 davour the freshly
Killed carcass Of a calf. Then no drew long
r"ath AMI was ready for business. Tho cow
boy who had hossad the tyn9-up Job war
ranted the, lasso and chains TO hold, herl
Of steers, but unfortunately ho had never
N9ur2d on bear power. OF a sudden tho
grizzly made n Iunge and snapped ono |
chain as If r. had been cotton string. Henye
later and h. was free. We tumhIcd over our
selves to get out OF, his way. and | believe |
IUhralm fully Intended to mako things rod |
hot Tor the crowd. but mn incident occurred 10
scare him of. He WAS making for the railroad |
Toulouse, on the roof OF which three mon had |
. .,, tetuGHiir WIEN passenger train came
sort before. and the hiss Of steam and tho |
shrek Of the whistle started him for the hills |
II" went Of with forty feet Of lsriat for belt.
side. hur he had secured his liberty and couli |
take bis time about getting rid of the orna-