Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-12
HICKEY AND TOWSER.
HOW TWO Merry DOGS TREEp A
CINNAMON BEAR AFTER NIGHT
AND KEPT BRuIN UP A TREE
UNTIL THEIR MASTER
ARRIVED.
n. e. Blake and s. E. Fisher Get
Some Exciting Sport and Feast
on Fat Things.

49, ibhstAss
II. II. Blake furnishns The Optic
with the following graphic accpun. Of
= battle between q bear IN the one
side and two men and d brace Of dogs
on the other:
Seldom Is found a dog thai Will
fight q bear and when one Is found the
encounter becomes fast and furious
II the dog has sense enough to elndc
the death dealing paws Of Mr.. Bear.
Tho writer had the good fortune
last week to witness one Of the ficrc-
est encounters between a large CHINA.
mon and two half bull and half shep,
ard dogs which II has been the for.
tune or but few people within the last
decade TO q
It happened this way: was Mt the
residence Of 3. II Fisher near MIN.
eral Hill. a few days ago, being out on
. prospecting trip. We had arrived
At the ranch late In the evening and
darkness had set In before supper
was finished. As the genial hostess,
Mrs. Fisher, was clearing away the
dishes and the host and had sat
down to enjoy the after supper smoke
x essential to the users Of the weed,
q great commotion was raised by the
dogs and they ran 70 . foothill some
two hundred yards away where they
continued their barking and growing
Tor perhaps half nm hour before much
attention d paid TO the racket. ri
nAlly I asked what 1t could be that
kept the dogs 30 excited and Fisher
replied that they probably bad a bad
ger and wanted him to come and help
them kill II. Open for any sort OF al
version l suggested that we go and
see what It was. W. went out Of
doors and listened, and noting that
the fight seemed to be getting farther
OF the host said that Towscr barked
as II II we're a bear. that II could not
be a badger as the dogs would not
let II get that far. but that II might
be q coyote which they had bayed.
WI listened a little longer and as the
racket did not stop Fisher said he
would have 70 90 aud help the dogs
as they had something which they
hated to tackle and were waiting for
him. ran In the house and get my
rifle and started. AS soon as we came
within haillng distance Fisher Missed
the dogs and the fight %rcdoublod AZ
once, receding from IL as we adyanc
cd. However, yelling at every step
We hurried on, and arrived at The
secne within d hundred yards,
when we arrived the fight had stop
ped and both dogs were sitting on
their launches under a huge pine tree
with their muxzles pointing upwards.
We looked up and beheld the outlines
Of n bear In the moonlight Bruin was
hugging a limb aud looking down
seemingly pretty tired Of the worry OF
civilization. Little time was wasted
In contemplation. as | raj not accus.
toned 70 shooting after might and be.
Ing fearful that a wound would cause
the bear 10 drop and probably Kill a
dog. Fisher took the gun and put four
bullets into him In rapid succession.
None OF them struck a vital spot. but
they had the effect OF bringing him out
OF the tree In short order. Before the
bear had struck the ground both dogs
were upon him, then ensued q scene
seldom witnessed by human eye. H.
threw the dogs on as " they We're
straws; nothing daunted they rushed
back, but having had a taste OF Bruins
powers they changed tactics and be-
gan d rear attack. We rushed III IN
get IN a shot and save the dogs but the
whirling bear and dancing dogs made
IL hard 10 get aim. For some nifty
yards the fight ragged, the bear fight
ing on his hind legs and lunglng and
whirling and striking with his front
paws. He succeeded 10 reaching an.
other tree where he backed up III Or.
der to protect his rear. AZ this juno.
turc we rushed up and as the dogs
were now out Of the way put IN =