Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-10

grizzlies and killed every one be could,
but one unlucky day he struck the
wrong bear. He shot and wounded a
big fellow and before he could reload
his gun or get away the bear caught
him. But Charley was game and
drawing his butcher knife be gave the
bear as good as he sent.
He repeatedly drove the murderous
knife clear to the handle into the
bears side and at last the grizzly
went of into the chapporral to die.
Charley came out Of that bloody fight
a terribly disfigured and badly used up
man. A piece Of bis skull the size OF
the palm Of your hand was torn out Of
the top Of his head and bis forehead
was badly crushed between his eyes.
Ever after that one Of his eyes always
looked straight up at the rim Of his
hat, whilst the other eye was looking
down at his toes. Many years after
wards Charley moved TO San Jose, aud
started a lumber yard and a planning
mill. He did a prosperous business
for a number OF years until he got 10
bncklng too strong against John Bar.
leycorn and, what the big grizzly failed
TO do for him, little John Barleycorn
soon accomplished. One morning in
the spring Of 1898 Charley was sud
denly seized With a hemorrhage Of
the stomach and DR., Brown was sent
for. Soon afterwards the news spread
all over town that Mountain Char
ley had passed in his checks ant
crossed the divide, for Dr, Brown hac
stated that he was dead, But, as The
sequel proved, Charley was mol
dead by several years. When ! asked
the doctor about 1t several days after
wards he said:
"When l reached him that morning
there was a stream Of blood coming
out OF his mouth as large as my arm
and enough came out Of his stomach
to ill a five gallon bucket. l neyeI
would have believed, had l not seeI
it with my own eyes, that there wa
that much blood In a human body
When the blood ceased 10 How Charlel
was as white as a sheet, his pulse haf
stopped beating and ] pronounced
him dead. How be lived after 1t hap
pened is the strangest thing to me
that | ever met with in all Of my pro
fessiOnal experience
1t was sometime during the iiftie'
that a man, who lived In a cabin sew
eral miles west OF Mountain Charley
ranch, fought a bloody battle with
wounded grizzly. When hunting in
the redwoods one hot afternoon be
met a big hear on the steep side OF
canyon and shot II. Although the
bear was very badly wounded II
caught him before he could get away
and heyfought it out to a finish; the
bear using his terrible teeth and
claws and the man his butcher knife.
They fought until they we're both
horribly mangled and finally had e
stop on account Of loss Of blood and
complete exhaustion. They lay on the
ground side by side quite awhile be
fore they were able to crawl down q
the water in the bottom OF the can
yon and when they reached 1t they las
within a few feet Of each other and
drank their an, when the bear got
upand staggered of down the creek,
leaving a broad trail OF blood behind
him. IL took that man many hours %
crawl up the mountain 10 his cabin
and for months he lowered between
life and death and IL was more than a
year before he finally recovered.
II Terrible Teddy the great
North American rough rider and bear
fighter, will go out 10 the jumping OF
place, where he can look out at the
ever-movIng pillows Of the great sun
down Iea, and tackle a big grizzly In
the coast range he win find that he
will need a gattling gun 10 pump lead
fast enough into II to keep IL from
tearing his hide into ribbons. And
he will also find that one OF those
grizzlies in the coast range has got
more fight in him than a dozen Of the
little Rocky mountain bears that he
had been use 10 hunting 10 his COW
boy days.