Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-24

off and yell at her. If the bear was
not there the coyotes would be eating
and could not YELL
WELL" said the burrero, that is
easy to guess after you know how"
Every man shook mis- feet in the
stirrups to see if everything was
tight and Don Jose, pressing his gray
with the calves of his legs and slight
ly leaning forward, went off with a
bound hike shot, yelling: Santiago.
At the bear, boys! Don't be towards
or gourd Sellers
Every man followed at like speed
over the mesa, down the steep slope
to the bajeo, hooting and yelling like
demons. In the dim light we could
see a massive form which looked to
me as L got nearer more like my small
boyhoods idea Of an ogre than any
thing | mad ever seen. 1t was terrify-
ing, but upon nearer approach my
ogre resolved itself into an enormous
grizzly standing with her forepaws
hanging purposely before her Two
cubs were sitting on their launches
at her side looking at us in wonder
and curiosity; the other was hidden
behind her and the carcass.
We all expected her to stand her
ground and fight for her cubs, as bears
generally do but she evidently
thought them big enough and old
enough to take care of themselves, so
when we got within about sixty feet
of her she lit out with snort (about
the same sound that large hog would
make if she did her very best) for
Precipice Canon.
According to instructions, Don Jose,
FL Lenero and Nevarro only put out
after the bear. Ell Georchy, Ell Buer-
70 and | deployed as scouts between
the cubs and the arroyo; FL Cir, FL
Guero, Ambagsio. Ybarra and Chato
charging the cubs, which stood their
ground and made a game fight from
start to finish. Don Jose led the trio
after the old bear, a little to the
right and about sixty feet in her rear.
Navarro was Immediately behind
him. FL Lenero about a hundred feet
behind and somewhat to her left.
They all gained on her in the run
across the bajeo, and Don Jose planted
his lasso around her neck, but it was
promptly thrown off and thrown TO
one side in very contemptuous man.
ner. Don Jose slowed down to pre-
pare his rope again, giving Nevarro
a chance. which he improved as well
as he could, but unfortunately just
as he was about to throw the bear
gave a snort that sent Neyarro and
his sabine a hundred yards off their
course: by this time, "the neclltie
party" had struck the hog wallow on
the other side of the bajeo and the
bear had the advantage, so she in
creased the gap between herself and
FL Lenero considerably, for by this
time he was leading the trio of las
sadores; but as soon as the hog wal
low was cleared and the smooth slope
dotted with elder bushes on the other
side gained, FL Lenero ran on to her
rapidly and planted his RATA over
her neck and behind one shoulder
"aluso ladron'' (Thief fashion,, as we
used to call it.
1t was too much for the bears in
genuity She could not get it off;
so she turned and charged with one
foreIeg dashed to her neck; but Don
Jose was right there, and as she came
the old chap met her with beauti-
full overland throw, caught both hind
feet and whirling the rhineno round
on his hind feet had her stretched out
full length on her side quicker than
l can tell it.
The other two horses having given
courage by their actions to the cow
ardly Sabine, Navarro came up, and
taking down his horse-hair rope to
hold his horse with, wrapped the
reins very tight around the pommel,
got down and went to Don Jose's as
sistance. Don Jose now took a reef
in his RATA, riding up within ten feet
of the bear, leaving about twenty feet
Of the loose end beyond his horn.
Navarro took this, slipped it through
the neck rope and passed it back to
Don Jose; catching that between Don
Jose and the bear in his hands, he
pulled hard on it to keep it tight;
Don Jose, taking up the slack of the
end, frightened the RATA at about the
same point as before, drawing the
hind feet chockablock to the neck
RATA and rolling the bear into a big
ball. Of course, this is one way OF
roping a bear, but there are as many
ways as there are of tying down a
steer.
Navarro now took some bale rope
and, half hitching it several times
around the bears nose, fixed at least
one female so that she would have to
keep her mouth shut. He then added
his RATA to the other two and the
trio dragged the bear up to a tree
about a foot in diameter, pulled her
hind feet around it on opposite sides
with riatas, then with many knots and
half bitches known only to sailors and
vaqueros tied them together hugging
the tree. at the same time leaving