The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-03
ruNr1Na BEARS In ALASKA.

Some Of tho Biggest OF Bruin Fame
tlx Found i'm Far North.
'oThere Is good bear hunting on thu
Alaskan peninsula. l got seven griz-
x,,es one afternoon, all Of them within
= quarter of a mile and not over half
an hours time. The smallest of Them
was a 3-year-old, and l should say they
averaged 1000 pounds 1t took thir-
teen cartridges to bring the seven
down."
Grant G. Chase, hunter and prospec
tor, who for eleven years has sI'ent.
most of his time in the Alaskan wttds,
crossed his knees in reminiscent FASH
ion at the Sherman House and told a
few bear stories on the eve Of returning.
to his favorite haunts-
Then for confederation there Is the
testimony Of Mrs. Chase, who for sew
eral years has shared her husbands
life. and who has kept diary where
in is faithfully recorded the number of
bear. caribou, sea otter and other fur
bearers brought down daily, and care
full measurement Of the biggest skins.
81 suppose l have killed 500 or 6OC'
bears altogether" continued Mr.. Chase.
"Of course, a good deal of my time has,
been given to some copper properties I
am interested In or the number might
have been much larger. At one time"
and another have hunted bear pretty
much all through the Rockies butt
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 measured
10 feet inches long and IL feet e.
J inches spread from toenail to toenail.
/ I can lift as much as the average man.
: but I'm telling it straight when l say
that with Mrs. Chase to help me
: couldn't turn that fellow over on hisA
,ack to skin him.
Twenty feet Is the nearest bear
l bent on mischief ever got to me. An
old female whose cub I had brought
< down, came for me one day and she"
was mad. She was sixty or seventy
3 yards distant and in bunch Of alder
: when 1 took my first shot at her. She"
? got up and came out in the clearing
9 and then she saw me and came for me-
4 in earnest. l worked my gun pretty
9 rapidly and the shots took effect. She
t was about six PAGES away when She
Q dropped.
. Mrs. Chase and got scare once
though, In rather ludicrous way.
had three camps in lonely REGION.
| where for three years Mrs. Chase never
saw white woman. had to put up
'bavaraias,' or houses Of drift wood.
the only kind available. We were CO.
ing from one camp to another when y
brought down a bear.
I'VE were in no hurry, 80 we stopped
built fire and had some lunch. After
lunch-about an hour after the shoot
ing-we went down into a gulch where
the bear was lying. Mrs. Chase was
carrying an aluminium teapot. I got
her to help me turn the bear over, and
l was about to remove his hide when
the big fellow suddenly came to life.
"You should have seen Mrs. Chase
go up that hillside. The best of 1t was,
in spite Of her haste, she took time to
rescue her teapot. 1 believe I jumped
about twenty feet myself. If that
bear had been in shape to do damage
there might have been some trouble
but he wasn't. AS a general thing
there isn't much adventure-it's too
easy."-Chicago Post.