The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-11

anu Odl4Og Ucig lAIS AAeld NtA iment which ran almost the entire ga- nut of dogdom.
 Away they went, leaving Dandy and the drivers far in the rear. From the writer's station on the middle trail he heard the beginning of the chase, but it was so fast and furious that the dogs were soon out of hearing, Thugh the writer listened intently, he was unable to tell which direction the dogs mad taken, and after waiting about half an hour he mounted his horse and rode north on the middle trail to the Light ing road; turning down toward the Gum Stick Pond he found Bud Hooks and MT. Lilly. They did not know which way the dogs had gone, but Dandy, who had chased a cub out of the Hurricane while the pack had fol- lowed a big bear had just returned and started south toward Black Creek MT. Lilly and Bud at once decided that the big bear must have gone in that direc- tion. MT. Lilly then gave the writer the following instructions: Ride down to the Buck trail and then south toward Black Creek past Buck Pond. If the bear has gone to Black Creek he may come back that way, and if he does you will meet him.
 Mir Lillys judgment was excellent, as future developments proved. The Buck Pond was about two miles away by the trail, and in that direction the tenderfoot from Kansas made his way
 The bear had run toward Black Creek; just as Bud Hooks and MT. Lilly thought, and there he encountered John Salter, bear hunter of some dis tlnction. The animal had stopped fre- quently on the way to fight the dogs which are always troublesome, though cautious, and wehn he had covered the three or four miles to Black Creek he was pretty we'll tired out. According ly he climbed about twenty feet up the trunk of big pine tree, where he was safe from the dogs. Salter, from the stand, heard the dogs in the thicket and made his way toward them There he found the bear hanging on the tree, while the dogs parked spitefully below him.
 The hunter brought his rifle to his shoulder and fired, and down came the bears and the dogs at once bounced upon him.The shot was their cue and the bear was supposed to have received mortal wound, but he shook them off. stopping only to knock one or two of them over and again made off as fast | as his legs could carry him. Salter | had evidently fired too quickly or had become exhausted by his long run to the dogs, and so his aim was spoiled
 The bear ran about half mile, when he again took refuge In a tree and Sal
 ter again missed his shot. This time the bear turned north toward the Buck Pond, stopping every now and then tc fight off the dogs.
 When the writer reached the Buck
 Pond, riding slowly, he stopped, and far ahead he heard the yelping of the
 bear pack. At the risk of smashing a i kneecap or two he spurred the horse tc a gallop. The barking came nearer and nearer. The dogs were in front of the
 rider, and in the thleket to the left ot
 the Buck trail. Tying his horse, ht
 swung his rifle across his arm, frs
 making sure that there was shell ir the chamber, and ran toward the thick, ct, where the sharp barking of the dogs indicated tEat the bear was at bay
 When within d hundred ards af ta.
 place away went the bear with tht
 dogs at his heels, the hunter catchins
 only a glimpse of the animal as h,
 plunged deeper into the thicket Fol
 lowing as fast as possible, the Kansal got a little nearer than before, wher
 the bear again broke away from tn,
 dogs. He ran only a short distance
 and again stopped. This time the hope
 ful bear hunter, hot and perspiring
 made a half circle, and when opposit,
 where the dogs were barking he cam
 In full sight of the object of his search
 only about thirty steps away. He wa
 standing with his fore feet on a To,
 and was looking back and snapping a
 the dogs who were behind him at
 safe distance. It was the act of a, mo
 ment to bring the gun into play, and il . an Instant a A calibre Winchester bal
 struck the bear full in the shoulder.
 It was an easy shot. At the sound O the gun the dogs sprang at the anima and with crash the dogs and bear al
 disappeared in the brush Followin, as fast as possible, the visitor had no gone more than twenty steps whe back came the dogs, falling over eac, other in their hurry to escape. Tn hunter ran on and thirty yards fur ther on he stumbled upon the bear lv ing near a log and gasping his las
 He had turned upon the dogs, charge and dropped dead. It was not necessa ry to fire another shot. The chase wa ended but 1t required some time be fore the dogs could be induced to le the dead bear alone They had an ol grudge apparently, and continued t bite the prostrate animal long after h had breathed his last.
 The problem that now presented it self was how to let the other men | the chase know that the end had come Every man who hunts in the Bi Thioket Is equipped with horn whic is made of an ordinary steers hor seraped thin and with the tip en sawed off This can be heard three c
 tour miles after one becomes accus 2 toned to blowing it and it is the signa !, of the huntsman. The Kansan ble, 5 three blasts until it seemed as if hi ? lips would drop off and no one a I swered. He fired his rife and shoute l until he was hoarse, but there was n : rasnnnsa An hnur. nassad md thata fo