The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23
WILEY BRUlN
BITES DUST
h IIdgc Bear for Twenty Years
Gave All Niinrods
tho Slip.
KILLED BY ONE-ARMED BOY
Easily Identified as the Ancien1
Chase by neformed Foot.
Enormous Size and Weight.
Especial to The Times Dispa.oh>


MONTERREY, VA, Oct. 22.--Thc largest
boar ever seen or killed in the Alleghan-
les. within the recollection of veteran
hunters, was baEged on Sunday morn
Ing by Mr.. Ernest Barley young
Nin,rod OF twenty years and cripple
having but one hand,
Tho killing of this monster occurred in
what is known as the MullenaN woods
some seven miles west from Crabbo,tom,
on the eastern slope OF Allegheny, and 50
long had this particular bruin been the
guest OF the mountaineer, that he had
acquired a personality. aud while he was
coveted prize, the conclusion had been
reached that lie possessed charmed lie,
and this opuion has been expressed
around many u campfire during the last
Quarter OLA century.
Mr.. Joseph Hull, well-knoWn huVer5ol
B big game. and whose son, q few years
ago. had Danicl-Boonc encounter with
the hitherto largest bear, says that he
\ tracked this one twenty years ago, and
during every season Sinca then, at inter
walls long or short the foot-nsarks OF tie
monster plantigrade have been seen ~
some OF the Colliias. Hulls Barkleys
"A OF Mullmaxs. The imprint Of the NUS
A feet, the accurate measurement OF lhs
4 tracks as a basis upon which TO estimate
or reckon. had not only marked nm as
a beast of immense proportions, pul my
revealed the fact that one OF the teet WIS
Eeforn1cti. the urturned toes indicating
nossibie contact with q trap, perhaps IN
2 early life, and this particular detornlt!
NOT only lob the hunters to the conclusion
that there was but one such bear ~
these hannts, but furnishes indispu1an,ie
evidence that the one killed By MI, BARK
LEXIS Indeed the monster which fof vs..
" years. has successfully evaded noth the
still hunt and the chase
ENORMOUS BEAR
have purposedly para sraphed 9 ils.
tie bi. before giving the weishls aHu
measurements. hoping thereby 'o E.e-
ara while even The veteran and S*i eF-
tfa Nathan Neimet 9 hunter from ' t
..hs,,tirs- r--,,urltzs.''s has never killed or
sss,, one nearly so large. beg 70 state
that s2ls rapport is no fake. i1la 1etNeFs az
tan 81 Il nay he ta1lt4ate tee
Tf,a weight IL lie bear, after ttie en-
,ra:Is were removed vas lSs 72nnds,
Across the bail Of his fcot ne iilssaS1t =
eight iI.c:les ana !tatwee.1 The esfs---acr2ss
;a-, t,f t,ae3--,lre inches The pelis when
5snr,sa., upon ,lsa ground. was exactly nine
reet IN langth, and there WIS streak q
FIJI along ffs e-tira haci; thai the fnen DE-
dared IL be fur inches thiess.
IL. this year Of or Lord. 1874, the pres
sr3ca Of q bear of any SORT IS sonnet hl'ls
unusual even ii The mountains, fer ths.t
f7s3,T4s have 1sacrs encrpscisei upon By Inc
i ,asss ~ development. biat here and tlare
may i1n found one which BIDS dehahee'
ana In MS circu.nscribed bounds and mar
.rozrad limitations. he becomes more o.
nuisance Than q terror for he pTeys upon
5-fe $ ,leer,-foids throughout the mountain
ranges. and when the time comes for tAe
srnua, roundup, It Is found that sheep
and lambs TO the value OF seveFai 'tui.7
dra5 dollars have been killed.
u was his fondness for rnatinns- afla
his bold inroads from year 10 year, which
engendered the feud Between this hls
7r,,31, and the natives. caused them 20
tur. him down through all these years
and finally to publish his dimensions to
the world as aforesaid
KILLED MANY SHEEP.
I. IS estimated that he had eaten this
season some forty sheep. and on MS ias,
raid was traced to a dense thicKets IN t'e
woods referred to above. TINS thicHei was
surrounded bY a half-dozcn OF more men,
or which Mr.Al3arklsy was one. small,
but weli-uaintd dog was sen. in, and ~
due time brought the bear cut close TO Mr..
Barley. who was armed only with q
,cheapgun--a sinslo barrel breach loading
shot gun, fol- which he had paid IS In
this he had placed shell filed with large
shot and, which he promptly lodged In the
body of the brute. Enraged, It made at
the young hunter who At once Instituted
n game Of "rose-bush' about a big oak
tree. getting In another shell as rapidly as
his hurried movement and crippled hand
would admit Mr. 1}arkley does not Nnow
how often lie cnoircled the tree, but called
1nanfully TO his fellows rs he ran. and
thanks to the very short range, he was
enabled To tear such hole IN his ndyer
sary with q second load, that only two
others had 10 be addaa as finishing
touches, and when the other hunters came
running UP. they found the young noun