The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-04
NOOSED THE BEAR
A Western Cattle Kings Wife Has An Exciting Ex-
 perience,
AND SHOWS MUCH NERVE
A Hot Contest in Which Victory Finally Perchcd
 Properly.

The east has produced few nota- hle woman hunters who have not feared to tackle tho uncertain grizzly on his native heath, If they be accom- panied Ny their lords and masters and well armed with high-power rides and mushroom bullets. These notable eX- captions have hung their walls with tho trophies of the chase and their troubles havo been shuddered at by their less bold sisters and admired by their men comrades and their prowess praised.
 But what would ono of these hunts women do if she were confronted by q big brown bear mother, furious and raging over the loss of her cubs? And If the fair Diana should happen to be unaccompanied by any member of the male sex, and herself unarmed save with a rawhide rope, is 1t not likely she would hesitate to tackle the fierce she bear, and that, too. on the bald mesa of the New Mexico foot range?
 Can the readers of the east imagine more uncomfortable position for q woman to be placed in than that?
 Yet that Is precisely what happened to Mrs. Sidney Walling Beall, the dashing and fearless young wife of one of the best-known ranch owners of extreme Western Texas, whose range house is located in Lubbock county, and whose herds roam over 50000 acres clear to the New Mexico line, Mir Beall himself Is great and mighty hunter and has to his credit hanging upon the wall of his private den at least one griz2ly's skin which he Killed with his bowie knife, after the big beast had struck the rife from hs hands.
 Mrs. Beall and her husband are dis tlnct products of the far west types that are by no means extinct to-day, notwithstanding the march of the homesteader and the Iowa settler with his irrigation ditchcs. There is only this difference between them Mir Beall's education consists only of that which he has learned in the common schools of his native Texas while Mrs. Beall's accomplishments with rife. rope and bowie knife have been lb- erally added to by four years In an aF atr t,, college, however, did not cause Mrs. Beall to forget the ways of the west, nor did her hand lose any of It's cum ming, with the tools of the western horsewoman, nor her nerve any of the stcadiness and readiness when 1t was necessary to call 1t into action.
 This fact has been attested numer- ous times by sundry checks which Mrs Bealls husband has had cashed In Fl. Worth, the same being paid her for tho skins of wolves she has slain single handed and alone. Be it known 10 the fair readers in the cast that this lady is just as much fem | mine creature In most matters as her eastern sisters, and 1t is thus she mulcts the big Cattle Raisers asso- I citation and the State of Texas for l her pin money, because q price is set on the head of every wolf, whether of the common coyote breed or the big, gray Hobo" wolf that plays such havoc with the nocks and herds of the l plains and mountains of Texas and l New Mexico. Twenty-Five dollars is the permanent reward paid for the big, cowardly lobo (cowardly except when he Is at bay, and then he is fierce enough), and a person bringing one of them down has only to draw the hide and any western bank will cash II, the same as a check drawn by the treasurer of the association. Thus Mrs Bcall keeps herself in hand with articles so dear to the heart of every womanly woman by means of hel I prowess and her unerrlng aim with the rifle
 One of Mrs. Beall's self-lmposed duties while living with her husband on the ranch, Is to ,canter twice { week to the town of Lubbock twent, miles away for the semi weekly mall Upon these rides across the 'TIanC
 Estacado," as 1t was once called lr the geographles, Mrs. Beall has beer
 wont to canter merrlly, covering thu round trip in four or five hours easily armed with nothing more defensiv,
 than her stout tether rope, which al
 ways hangs coiled to the horn of he
 yaddle. The ride to her is one O
 pleasure as well as affording her oc
 cupation and the opportunity of see
 ing and talking with some of her owl sex.
 Upon the occasion with which thi
 relation has to deal the lady was can
 terng gayly homeward with her bud
 get of mail, and when within tei
 miles of her home she saw a lumber
 ing creature cross her path. Sh,
 knew at once what 1t was, although
 the distance between herself and tn animal was considerable She recog
 nized the animal from it's shutllinl
 gait to be bear, and a big one a
 that. Squirting her horse to q quick
 CT pace, she soon began to draw nea
 the bear. Patches and spotches o
 blood along the bears trail told he the animal was wounded and doubt , less in an ugly mood, Few mel , would have been brave enough t tackle such a creature for @ wounde, bear of the brown or black breed i , an ugly customer to handle, eve, ; when the hunter ls armed and tn advantage on his side,
 Not so, however, with this daunt ; less western young woman Hesltat l ing not an Instant, for among mos
 Texas women and men whenever the Z desire a thing their rule is to go an [ get it. Mrs, Beall unslung her larla and dashed toward the bear which b this time had become aware of th , woman's proximity and had turned f |, it's tracks Soon the hear reared ant
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