Williams news., 1907-02-09

sixty miles west of Gunnison city.
 Just before noon that day the general said, "boys, you can kill something for dinner, if you wish,' y but as nothing but grouse showed up, which is nearly the same as our eastern partridge, 1 tried my rife on some of them, and as they we're. quite. tame.I could shoot their heads off quite easily after a little practice,,- We had fried grouse fo- dinner, and it was fine eating if the writer did. do the cooking.
 The general, expressed a wish that he could see something large to shoot at and his wish was grati- fled sooner. than he expected. As soon as, dinner was finished and our burros had finished their lunch of dry grass near the creek, Mir. Russ and the writer replaced the packs on them. The general, in the meantime, had put the saddle blankets and some other hght articles on his horse and had rode up the hill in advance of us nearly a hundred yards when we heard him commence firing, and immed- lately afterwards we heard him yelling to beat the band: Mir. Russ and I left our burros, and grabbing our rifles we went up the hill as fast as possible. We soon met the generals horse galloping back to join the burros, and few minutes later we saw man going up a tree and wounded Cinnamon bear in the act of doing the same. We made quick time in reaching that tree and by the time we ar rived at the foot of the tree, the general was up about twenty feet and the bear within six feet of his boots and still going some. We commenced shooting at bruin, Mr. Russ having Winchester could shoot very fast, while 1 was doing the best 1 could with my single shot rife. We soon saw that the bear was disabled, and a moment later he came tumbling to the greund, but was not dead by any siheans . for as soon as he hit the ground he gave Mr Russ the run for his life MT. Russ rife was empty and not having time to re- load it he threw it aside and draw ing his six shooter he woufd- -terr and give the bear shot every chance he got. Mir. Russ was not more than twenty feet ahead of the bear, and was running in a circle around the writer and the man up the tree who had decided to remain there until the war was over If II took all summer. The writer, dur ing all this fun. was busy throwing lead at the animal, but he kept be- hind tree most of the time, not caring to have the bear chase him. but all things have an ending and as MT. Russ went over a wind fall the bear was in close pursuit and not more than thirty feet from, me and when the bear rose on his hind feet to go over the log he was at a standstill and 1 gave him shot in the neck, about two inches back of the ear and the beiif ,never knew what hit him. Mir. Russ came back and looking over the log in shy manner asked me lis he dead" while the general slid down the tree and said "Mr Johnson. shoot. him again just for luck. :" We soon mustered up enough courage to gather around the bear and you can just bet your last dol lar that it was the biggest piece of bear I ever saw, and although l had seen. bears before that date 1 was afraid of this one even if he was dead.
 We removed the intestines and taking the heart and liver with us after covering the bear with brush. we continued our journey, reaching Blue Creek about snn down. While We were arranging camp we lost sight of the general, but d few minutes later we heard him shoot three times and when be returned