The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
A HUNTERS NARROW ESCAPE
Killed a Bear as it was Chewing his
 Arm.

Arm.
 One evening while I was sojourning in Wyoming a couple of my young friends went out into a quaking asp thicket after grouse. One of them was armed with forty-four Winchester the other with shotgun.
 About a half mile from the ranch they entered the thicket, where they knew the grouse were plentiful. They advanced cautiously, parting the bushes, expecting every minute to flush a covey into the scattering trees, when they would have a good chance at 1 them.
 They approached a darge bowlder' which was about the center of the, thicket, when young Stokesberry, who
 carried the Winchester and was in | front, discovered two or three cub l bears playing around the boWlder'
 Without hesitation two Easty shots
 brought down two of them and third shot crippled the other, which raised
 terrible yell.
 Then ort from behind the powder
 came something like a whirlwind-the
 mother bear--a monster silver tip,
 breaking the fallen timber and tearing
 the brush up by the roots. Stokesber- " went up a sapling to the top of the
 powder, the bear with a mighty roar after him. The boy with the shotgun
 damned it against her side and pulled , the trigger, and then took to his heels l through the brush.
 The shot did not stop the progress of
 the she bear. It only brought forth another roar.
 } She kept on after Stokesherry, who had reached the top of the rock and } began to pump forty-four bullets into : her as fast as he could, But the ann intuition was too small and did moi
 seem to do much harm. It only en- 3 ragged the huge animal.
 The rock was not tall enough to pro- tect Stokesberry, so he ran down the l opposite side and attempted to make . his escape by flight, and probably
 | would have done so, but the fallen tim s Der was a great tangle and the brusl [ thick, He hung his foot and fell. Tn r bear was upon him before he coult : 1 rise.
 7. Then the bloody tussle began. Witt one stroke of her paw the bear brok '' two of his ribs, and grabbed him b, r. the thigh with her mouth. But Stokesnerry had held on to hi
 gun. There was only one cartridge i
 it, and that was in the magazine !" From some cause the bear let loose O
 his thigh and grabbed him by the lief
 arm, just above the elbow. Stokesber Q ry, with his right hand and the breecl
 of the gun on the ground, managed t ,n spring the lever and throw the she
 into the barrel, and worked the gun v that he got the muzzle into the bear Ill mouth and pulled the trigger. It ble S' the top of the bears head off, and sl1 ,A ,A fell dead across the body of the youn ,1I man.
 .a In the meantime the boy had mad d all possible speed for the ranch, an n, with two other men, well armed, can ar back as quickly as they could. The rv found the bear and the man as haN ba described, and thought both were dea as But after pulling the big carcass ba of Stokesberry, they found he was st
 alive. They hastened to the ranch g he wagon, dispatched a messeng nc twelve miles to Carbon for doctc as and used all the remedies they cou as which restored him to consciousne of before the doctor arrived. He was te for rfbly lacerated and bleeding profusel nd and his case looked hopeless. But lat had nerve, and in couple of mont on he was able to walk about. He h 1te lbut little use of his left arm. on His friends killed the other wound he cub and brought the four bears to t a ranch. The old one tipped the seal n's at eight hundred pounds I afterwa ec- bought the hide, but the shotg1 ips loaded with No. 6 shot, had made ars hole about six inches square behind ous left shoulder. None of the shot we the any further than to the rtbs.-Den'
 kPost.