Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-15
REVENGE OF A CAPTIVE BEAR.
Bruin Dislilcd the Mas and Pursued
Him TO the Death.


bears. When boy in Marquette, Mich.
he saw tragedy wrought by tame
bear that made lasting impression on
his Imagination, and though skilled
hunter and trnpper OF otlier wild GANG,
he has always given the benr the 60 By.
A chained bear was kept in the yard
back OF n store. and in some way this
bear conceived n grudge against u dray-
man who was in the habit Of driving into
the yard to deliver goods. Waboosa says
the man '.irlignatcd" the bear. Things
came To IA climax one day when the man.
MS it chunced. was accompanied by his
3-year-old child. He delivered his goods
and on his way back to the dray did
something which reused the smoldering
passion III the bear to white heat. The
beast made sudden leap at the man and
caught Ills feet and would have ended
the matter then and there If the dray-
man had not got n grasp on the spokcs
OF one OF his wagon wheels and left his
boots with the hear. He had time to
climb on his driy and start his horse out
of the yard, but as he reached the street
the bear broke loose. carrying his chain
with him, and started in pursuit.
Directly across the street from the
with an exit on another street at right
angles to the first The drayman lashed
/ his horse md drove into the stable, turn
ed the corner and came out on the main
| thoroughfare OF Marquette. directly OPP
posite the fremont House. He saw that
| the bear fooAed. and thinking it might
be after the horse he jumped from the
dray with his child in his arms and ran
4 into the hotel The paneled doors closed
after him, but the hear, hot on the scent.
! went through them us IL there had been
nothing in his way and followed the man
| down n flight OF stairs to the barroom.
4 Here the man had doubled and gone
ont ut another door ard through long
! passage back to the street.
4 The bnrroom was full OF men. 1t was in
| the palniy boom days Of the city. and the
! first great shipments of iron We're being
I converted into cash. Miners and sailors
1 and roustabouts throngcd the streets and
| filled the drinking places. Unfortunately
4 for the drayman, the men were not pro-
vidcd with firearms. The bear dashed
4 through the bar and turned neither to
4 right nor left. A second later the wood
4 en- door by which the drayman had left
lay In splintcrs. and succeeding doors
i proved only n temporary check to the
bears progress. 1t gained on the man at
every turn. and just before the poor fell
low reached his wagon again it caught
him.
The Mortified spectators saw vicious
sweep OF the paws which fell trife
short Of the man. but tore the child from
its fathers grasp and ended its young
life instantly. A second latersthe bear
and man had grapplcd and fallen. the
bear on top.
The man tried to defend himself with
his arnis, and the bear chewcd them in.
discriminately. meanwhile tearing Mt his
stomach with his claws. blind with pas
sion and insensible to the shots which a
policeman who had followed the chase
was firing into its head and body. Not
till the sixth and last shot from the po.
4 licenan's revolver! held against the base
of its err was fred did the bear succumb
The muscles relaxed. and the shaggy
beast settled an inert mass. The dray.
man was pulled ont from beneath. He
was alive, but crippled for life.
There is moral TO this story, which is
"Don't aEgravate tame bear. IF Forest
and Stream.