The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-14
PRESIDENTS BEAR HUNT
Roosevelt Tells of His Ad-
ventures While in
Colorado.


President Roosevelt in Scribners
Magazine for October Describes his ad-
ventures on his recent hunting trip in
Colorado after bear The president
thus describes the killing Of great
black Lear. the biggest OF the hunt
when we first saw him he was sit
ting up on a point Of rock surrounded
by the pack. his black for showing TO
fine advantage. Then he moved on
threatening the dogs l3e was sui
len, powerful beast, and bis leisoroiy
gait showed how little he feared the
pack and how confident be was n his
own bUrly strength BY this time thc
dogs had been after him for a couple
Of hours and as there was no water
on the mountain side we feared they
might be getting exhausted and rode
toward them as rapidly as we could
1T was hard limb up TO where
they were, and we had 20 lead the
horses just as we came In sight of
him across a deep gully which ran
down the sheer mountain side be broke
bay and started Off, threatening the
foremost Of the pack as they dared TO
approach him. They were all around
him, and for a minute / could not fire.
Then as he passed / got a clear view
of his great round stern and pulled
trigger.
"rhe bullet broke both his hips, and
be rolled dOwnhlll. the hounds yelling
with excitement as they closed In on
him. He could still play havoc with
the pack and there was need to Kill
him at once. l leaped ana slid down
my side of the gully as he rolled down
his At the bottom he stopped and
raised himself on his fore quarters,
and with another bullet | broke his
back between the shoulders.
1t was a wild scene TO look upon as
we scrambled down TO where the dead
bear lay on his back between the rocks
He did not die wholly unavenged, for
he had killed one Of the terriers, aud
six other dogs were more or less in
jurcd. The chase OF the bear is grim
work for the pack The bear weighed
$50 pounds. In the fall he would
doubtless have weighed over 400
pounds"
OF another kill the president writes;
"The bear was some thirty o. forty
feet up a tall spruce. 1t was big
she, with a glossy black brown coat
was afraid that at our approach she
might come down, but she had been
running hard for some four hours, had
| been pressed close, and evidently had
| not the slightest idea of putting her
self OF her own free will within the
reach OF the pack, which was now
/ frantlcally baying at the foot of the
tree / shot her through the heart. As
the bullet struck she climbed up
4 through the branches with great agility
4 fer six or eight feet Then her mus
cies relaxed and down she came with
a thud, nearly burying herself in the
snow Little Skip was one of the first
dogs to seize her as She came down,
and in another moment he literally
disappeared under the hounds as they
| piled on the bear AS soon as possible
we got of the skin and pushed camp
ward at a good gait, for we We're t
long way OFF Just at nlghtfall we
came out on blum from which we
could overlook the rushing. swirl.ns
brown torrent on the farther bank on
which the tents were pitched.
"The stomach OF this bear contained
nothing but buds. Like the other shes
killed on this trip, she was accom-
panied by her yearling young, but had
no newly born cub. Sometimes bear
breed only every other year, but / have
found the mother accompanied not
only by her cub, but by ber young
OF the year before. The yearling also
had nothing but buds in It's stomach.
When the skin was taken OF, Stewart
looked at IT, shook his head, and, turn
ing to Lambert. said solemnly. Alex,
that skin isn't big enough TO use for
anything but a dolly From that time
until the cad Of the hunt the yearliugs
were only known as dolly bears.
The president relates other expert.
ences he has had with bears and does
not consider the black bear on the
whole a very dangerous antagonist.
"Black bear are not, under normal
conditions, formidable brutes" he says
III they do charge and get home they
may maui man severely, and there
are q number Of instances on record III
which they have killed men Ordiuari
~. however, black bear VIII mol
charge home, though he may bluster a
good deal / once shot one very close
up, which made most lamentable cut
cry and seemed 90 lose its head IFS et
forts 10 escape resulting in its bouncing
/ about among the trees with such heed
less hurry that 1 was easily able tC
XIII IL.
Another black bear, which / ais,
shot at close quarters, came strNgh
for my companions and myself and al
most ran over the white hunter VIII,
was with me. This bear made no SOUND
whatever when 1 first hit II. aud d,
not think it was charging ! believe 4
was simply dazed and by accident RAJ
the wrong way ana 50 almost camr
into collision with us.
However. when il found itself face
to face with the white hunter and onll
four or i've feet away Il prepared To-
hostiltles aud / think would have
mauled him II had not Drained it witt
another bullet for / was standing bu
+ six feet or so 10 one side Of H. None o
the bears shot on this COLORADO tril
made a sound when hit They ali die,
silently Ike 50 many wolves"
Cant be perfect health without nur
blood Ruraocl Blood Bitfars nuke