New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-18
KILLED By II BEAR.
Terrible Hand holland Fight Be
tzCeen Hunter and Hunted.

or Some or the DeilpOyS purge All VI lHe Hdl
rators were dressed in evening clothes, and
90 all appearances had never so much as soiled
a finger with powder smoke One had recounted
his sporting exploits the Adrondacks. and
had told with great gusto how many deer he
had shot in day and how many of his guides
had complimented him his skill. Another
said that duck shooting was his special hobby,
and that he had come clear from Cannes France,
every autumn to kill these birds along Chesa-
peake Bay. There were also stories about the
shooting of cartridges and grouse, and one mem
Der of the group related with great many
"ands" "thens" and ''suddenlys' how he killed
three quail. He had just received the applause
Of his hearers, when lean individual strobe
into the circle pulled down his SLOUGH hat an
otter notch and growled:
Ever hunted grizzlies?'
The voice so nearly initiated grizzlys growl
that it captured the attention OF the hunters
at once although none Of them answered the
newcomer
Hope I amt butting in," said the lean faced
man, but that quail story made me think Of
how old Ephram tackled pal of mine once
As the bear put up little more fight than
quail would, my pard isn't able to tell what
happened like our friend the bird hunter"
1t plain to that the group of sports
men did not welcome the newcomer, yet his last
remark aroused their interest despite them
lelves Before one of them realized what he
was doing, he asked:
Did the bear kill him?"
The question did not evoke direct reply. 1t
rnIy made the intruder rub his eyes, as if a mist
Tad fallen over them, and then clear his throat
before he said
y reckon my pard had the most terrible hand
to-hand battle with silver tip ever
hught. Before it ended the beast had ffty-four
Uuets in him. I'll tell you how it happened
] in the foothills of the Rockies, in the State
=. Washington, where we had a ranch, some of
cattle got loose. and we started out to find
.hem. There were six of US, and after had
found the trail of the steers and was fording
mountain stream called Teapot Greek one of
1ur bTonCOs began to snort and rear up, as if
1e was in agony. But he wasn't, or, at any
rate the agony only mental. The horse
had hardly begun to dance when heard the
peculiar growl of the grizzly, which. as you may
-row, has something of the grunt of a hog.
And ! tell you he was big fellow. AS soon
: l him 1 had touch of that ague which
petrifes he can't raise gun and just
Its the beast walk right up and swallow him.
Ephraim was standing on his hind legs and
eating off the servis berries from the bushes.
rs is the way with these animals, he did not
Ittack US but just growled, as if to scare US.
Niz2ly usually does not pick quarrel although
he is the most ferociOus American born beast
alive when put the defensive. I thought all
of US were going to leave the brute alone, when
of the party, by the name of Aft Kennedy,
a cowboy, and almost as dangerous grizzly
when aroused, shouted out:
No, sir. I'm not going to leave that silver tip
insult that way. If he wants a fight he can
have it
Kennedy jumped off his horse, because he
garGed a man who would shoot from the saddle
as a craven He led his mount to point about
one hundred yards from the bear, turned the
horses head away from the game and then
looked at the magazine of his gun to If It
full. The next moment he fired, and 1
could see the head of that bear go back as if 1t
had been struck with bowlder. thought he
a goner, but he wasn't. That brute just
doubled up in order to stretch himself out the
bigger. He jumped up a rock and, getting
good squint at his enemy he started for him
on a numbering trot
Kennedy kept pumping the bullets into the
bear as fast as he could pull the trigger but his
fusillade seemed to have effect on the
critter than if he shooting with a popgun
lie had emptied its magazine. l thought he was
/ DING to leap his horse and dash away but
Kennedy not that sort of a fellow. He
simply stood there, although he must have seen
nat tic. hoy at tha of tba piH