The Jasper news., 1908-04-09


Minutes hid IN the pine scrub before
here comes bid .Stub-foot' growlin',
AXE a thandetatorm, and he looked
IKE he was perty nigh as Big ais an eles
phant There wuyn't no doubt he was
tie one, and three OF HIS claws on his
lift fore.foot waD gone, count OF HIS
9fttin' ketched n q trap once 30 the
minute We sees him the lawyer, the
,shortharId man and me we climbs
trees, the lawyer gittin, the best tree
and cllmbin, higher up than any Of
|ns. The picture man Of course he
| had to stay on the ground to git the
| pictures Of the scrimmage, and De.
| Fyster had to be there to do the
shootin'. SO the picture man, as was
. dead-game proposition as ever /
see, he's all ready and peekIn' out
from his curtain, and he gifts one pic.
! ture as old 'Stub-foot' takes a bite out
OF the bull elk's carcass. Then this
here De Pyster ups an blazes away,
and fer some reason he only wounds
old 'Stub-foot, who imme1itly drops
| the elk and comes lopin. over lords
De Pyster, amin to finish his break
fast ON him. The picture man gifts
another good picture of 'Stub-foot,'
Fan, then goes up the lawyers. tree,
and Just then De Pyster shoots again,
and drops old 'Stub-foot' with a bullet
Through the fore-qnarters that busts
both shoulders and lays the old Teller
out as helpless as sick kitten. Then
he soaks him with another bullet
through the body, and jist then my
lawyer hollers, hold on, you've done
fer him. and then we all slides down
our trees and the picture Teller takes
a few more pictures while we looks
| at the bear.
Fer a little while we thinks he's
stone-dead, but bime.Dy he rouses a
little, and my lawyer he jerks a paper
out OF his pocket and fountain pen,
and he says, he'll jist be able to sign
the dyin' declaration he says, and
80 he sticks the fountain pen in the
bears right paw, my lawyer reads the
declaration to him, and with me help
In, old 'Stub-foot' signs this here
paper with his mark, and then finally
tumbles over, hayin' passed in his
checks right proper.
"Immejitly De Pyster an me we
skins the bear, the piture man goes
back to camp and tevelops-that's
what he called it--them picters; my
lawyer he writes out the afiidavids and
Axes up the dyin' declaration all
right, and the shorthand man writes
out and hammers out or typewritin'
machine a full account of the fight.
This dyin' declaration told how this
here old Stub-foot,' monster grizzly
bear OF Friskiyou county, California,
feelin' the near approach OF death, and
havin' no hope of recovery. identified
De Pyster as the Teller that killed him,
and 30 FORTH Reglar legal, my law.
/ yer said, and provin' certain that De
/ Pyster was the cause of old Stub.
fo0t'a death. And we ali signed II
as witnesses to old Stub-foot's mark
swell, sir, ] got my money and paid
my lawyer. And when De Pyster took
the, stage he had old Stub.foot's' pelt,
the pictures of the affair, the short
hand mans account of the fight, all
our afidavids, and Old Stub-foot's'
dyin' declaration that De Pyster shot
him. 1t was the most convincin' ar.
ray of evidence ever furnished, SC
my lawyer said. De Pyster shook
hands with me and he seq: Mr.. Walk.
| err, you're simply genius And he
sent me from New York this here
watch as a remembrance. Cost q
dollar an keeps as, good time as q
hunderd-dollar one. And I'm wearin'
one of old 'Stub.foot's' missin' claws
on It fer watch-charm."
| And he passed the time-piece proud
ly over to me for a closer inspection