The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-05-09
HUNTING BEARS IN ALAsK1,S
Come Of the Biggest of the Bruin
Family Found In Far North.

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Family Found In Far North.
There is good bear hunting on the
lies one afternoon, all of them with
in quarter of mile and not over
half an hours time. The smallest
Of them was a three-year-old, and l
should say they averaged 1000
pounds. It took thirteen cartridges
to bring the seven down."
Grant G. Chase, hunter and pros
| pector, who for eleven years has
spent most Of his time in the Alas
kan wilds, crossed his knees in rem
| iniscent fashion at the Sherman
House this morning and told few
| bear stories on the eve of returning
| to his favorite haunts. .
Then for confederation there Is the
testimony of Mrs. Chase, who for
several years has shared her hus-
bands life and who has kept diary
wherein Is faithfully recorded the
number of bear, caribou, sea otter
and other fur bearers brought down
daily and careful measurements OF
the biggest skins.
II suppose ! have killed 500 or
600 bears altogether" continued Mr..
Chase. "Of course a good deal OF
my time has been given to some cop
per properties am interested In or
the pumber might have been much
larger. At one time and another
have hunted bear pretty much all |
through the Rockies, but there isn't |
another place to equal the Alaskan
peninsula.
big? Well, I'll tell you. Those !,
bears up there are the largest in the
world. A full grown male weighs
from 1000 to $500 pounds. The skin
of the largest fellow l ever killed
thirteen feet four inches
spread from toenail to toenail. / can
lift as much as the average man, but
I'm telling it straight when say
that with Mrs. Chase to help me
couldn't turn that fellow over on
bis back to skin him.
Twenty feet is the nearest a bear,
bent on mischief, ever got to me. An
I'D female, whose cub had brought
Town, came for me one day and she
Was mad. She was sixty or seventy
yards distant and in bunch of alder
when I took my first shot at her.
She got up and came out in the clear
ng and then she saw me and came ..
'or me in earnest worked my :
gun pretty rapidly and the shoots q
COX effect. She was about six PAGES .
way when she dropped. !,
Mrs Chase and I got a scare ,
nee, though, in rather ludicrous >
way. had three camps in a lonely 9
tgion where for three years Mrs. -
'hase never saw a white woman.
ad put up 1bavraias,' or houses, of
rift wood, the only kind available.
We were going from one camp to
mother when l brought down a bear ~
eve were in no hurry, SO we stop L
ed, built fire and had some lunch .
fter lunch-about an hour after the >
hooting-we went down into a gulch
there the bear was lying. Mrs. 70
base was carrying an aluminium tea , - =
OF. I got her to help me turn the . p
ear over, and was about to re- =
love his hide when the big fellow ).
,ddenly came to life. al
"You should have seen Mrs. Chase =.
} up that hillside. The best of it :. :.
as, in spite OF her haste, she took -
me to rescue her teapot l believe V
jumped about twenty feet myself. -
that bear had been in shape to do -
image there might have been some ~
ouble-but he wasn't AS a general e 81,
ing there isn't much adventure ID
s too easy."-Chicago Post