El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-02
MAN CHASED
BY A BEAR.
Exciting Experience of a 10
OAK Fiend in the Sierra
Madre.
NEW STYLE OF HUNTING
Is httested by this Devotes TO Afford
More pleasure Than the Hunt to
Kill After Bic Game With a
Camera

From the Providence Journal
A. b. Underhill health seeker from
London England. who has spent the
past three years in the Sierra Maure
mountains west of Casas Grandes hau
An exciting experience with bear out
in the mountains while in search OIL
subjects to take snapshots or ne De
ing "A lover of the Dutton-preSsihs
sport He told the story OF the adven-
ture in words abouta S follows:
Il see in the FL Paso Herald several
stories of the experiences of hunters.
ranchmen and others in the Sierra
Madre mountains where | have been
the past three years and these stories
remind me of my experiences there
and especially one that for the time
was exciting enough to cause a severe
shock to my nervous system
Having received some interesting
literature from the Sierra Aadre rail-
road in regard 10 the beauty and
healthfulness of the region through
which that road runs and being some
what of a camera fiend and suffering
with an affection in my lungs. l de-
cided to go into that country after
pictures and health. | have secured
considerable amount of both. and to
my going to that country is due the
pleasure of my being here to tell you
this story. In looking back to the in
cident il does not seem so exciting as
it did to me when ] looked back at
big bear chasing me. and the story
may not carry with it the real excite
ment of the adventure. but | assure
YOU il was exciting enough to me
while il was occurring.
My love of the Photographic art is
so great that | had much rather risk
my chances in 4 tight place to secure
a coveted picture than to sit down to
feast of good things to eat. ! enjoy
getting out where nature is in all her
glory unmarried by the devices of man
and get pictures of nature as she was
originally formed. and as a result il is
not an unusual thing to find me out
alone riding over the mountains and
through the deep canons on my little
buckskin pony that an ola Mexican
rancher had presented to me. ! rarely
ever carried anything with me except
my kodak and other picture-taking ap-
paratus. and my riding whip. Hence |
was never prepared to ward off the at
lacks of any wild animal that |
might happen upon while out alone.
But up to the time of the incident that
J am about to tell you / had never had
any occasion to need firearms. | do
not enjoy killing the inhabitants of
=
and without their presence nature is
not complete. | much prefer to take
the picture of the live animal home
with me than to take the carcass of it.
Il had my headquarters near Colonia
Pacheco for some months and whiled
away many a beautiful summer day
riding over the hills on my pony and
studying nature and filling my pockets
full of negatives of the beautiful seem
cry Most of my trips had been taken
TO the northward from Pacheco for
there nature has never been disturbed
and is veritable Garden of Eden. In
this section had seen and taken snap
shots OF many deer. antelopes. turkeys
etc. and the pleasure and exercise 7
was having was making me feel like
new man On weighing after / had
been there few weeks | found a won
derful increase in my weight. due
mostly. suppose to the excellent but
ter. butter milk. sweet mix. honey.
etc. that the Mormons fed me on.
Il believe that ! would be content
to spend the remainder of my life in
that peaceful little village. in fact 7
would not care to ever pass from IL
TO better land for it sgood enough