The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-09
FAMOUS BEAR HUNTERS.
ADVENTURES OF MOUNTAIN
 EERs IN THE SOUTHWEST.

pId Man McCartyss Method and His Last Encounter-Ffght That Ended X With the Death of old Man Joyce in N San Carlos Mountains--Goswick' Wager.
 N In the primevaI forests, high up in he Arizona mountain ranges, are yet |8b be found almost every species of Mild animal indigenous to the Rocky Fountain region, bear, elk, antelope, Reer, mountain lions Cor cougars,) Mountain sheep and a host of smaller |b1imals. The bear are of three varie- es-silvertip, cinnamon and black. pecimens of each have been killed feighing as much as 1,600 pounds, hys the Los Angeles Times, although Commonly the silvertip is the largest, Aso the most ferocious; and none but Ia hunters have the fortitude to hunt &ese animals in their haunts far from fe abodes of men.
 Old hunters there are in the Territory ho have hunted bear for the past fenty-five years. Their favorite time year for hunting them is in the fall, ben the first nipping frosts have used the mast to fall, and Bruin, al- 1ugh he is not averse to killing beef d mutton on the range, has a partic- tr liking for the mast of aeorns, pinon It's, and juniper berries abundant on mountain slopes at this season. so the hunter knows that Bruin is ely to be very fat and will furnish a 'ntiful supply of meat for his hungry sS and 'sb'ar grease" for his camp king.
 pld Man McCarty of Camp Verde, tzona, a grizzled old-timer, was one the best known hunters. For twen- years he had hunted bear in the goilon Mountains, had killed hum Ids of them, varying his vocation, by ping and running down lines, for fch he was paid by the stockmen. th a. pack of a dozen dogs and armed h double barre1led shotgun, heavily |rged with buckshot, and long biting knife, he would pack into the lntains every fall and return laden
 
 dogs had started the bear, to follow hn on horseback across the canons ridges until Bruin stopped in a eket or among the rocks to fight off pursuers, when McCarty would dis mt and, fearlessly advancing, would pt the bear while he was occupied the dogs. If, as sometimes hap ed, the bear charged him on sight, would wait until Bruin reared ons his feet within a few yards to hug and then fire the shotgun full in bears face. If there was any fight in the bear after this double dis rge of buckshot, the dogs and hunt knife soon finished him.
 q man McCarty hunted alone. er would he have any one accom-
 him, and many of his acquain- les prophesied that some of his es would be his last. But the old merely laughed. Killing bear had me as easy for him as killing rab- was to the average sportsman. In fall of 1901, McCarty, with his dogs, ted into Clear Creek country high h the Mogollous, for his annual bear A wild, rough country is the r Creek region, full of deep gorges,
 ridges and bear. A few days his departure some of his dogs, y bitten. arrived at settlement on Verde River, followed by his less horse. Searching parties at started out to find the old hunter, light snow fell covering all the H, and they returned without find- him. Ten weeks later, party of pers found his remains in canon he headwaters of Clear Creek. The gun, with one barrel blown off from vercharge of powder, his clothing reds, and almost every bone in the part of his body broken, told the At last the bears had killed most inveterate foe.
 man Joyce of Southern Arizona, a famous hunter, met death in a lar way. In the wilds of the San ps Mountains his lifeless body was
 by some cowboys. He had hesn