Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-15
STORIES OF BEAR HUNTERS;
EXCITING PURSUITS or BROIN

Farmer jackson Barked Like a Dog
Norwich Hill. Pa, Special: tyson
Jones. an old time Sinnemahoning pear
hunter. had kept his eye on a swainp III
the Bear Greek country ever since
huckelberry time. for he a reason 10
believe that il was harboring three
bears, and his mind was made up re-
gardiug what he would DO 20 thoSe
bears when the open season Tor pears
came along.
1t came October I, and these three
must have forgotten that bears were
no longer under protection of the law,
for they left many signs about tle
swamp that they were still there, not
withstanding the proximity of Tyson
Jones and other bear hunters. 30
summoning four other hunters TO JOIN
him Tyson Jones started out after the
bears.
The swamp was dense with laurels.
The hunters were posting themselves
about SO as TO be sure OF getting the
bears when the latter were routed out,
when Farmer George Jackson, VINO
lives in the vicinity appeared on the
scene much excited.
Three bears have just gone tramp
in through my barnyard," he said TO
Tyson Jones. Somebody had better
come over and Kill EN-"
Tyson Jones said lat he guessed
they would first get the three bears
that were in the swamp n then they
would attend to the business OF Farm
er Jackson's three. But they didn't get
the three bears that were in the swamp,
because the three bears were no longer
there.
Whether or not il had come suddenly
to the bears what day it was does not
appear, but at any rate 1t daWned on
the hunters that the three had managed
to get out Of the swamp while IL vas
being surrounded, and their trail was
discovered leading in the direction of
another laurel patch several miles dis
tant. AS a short cut thither the bears
had taken advantage Of the route via
Farmer JackSon's barnyard.
The hunters and Farmer Jackson
followed the trail to the distant swamp
and located the bears in it, but their
two dogs refused to go in and rout the
bears out. In his emergency Farmer
Jackson said that while he wasn't any
kim of a bear hunter he could bark like
a dog first rate. Tyson Jones told him
to go into the swamp then and bark
like a dog.
He followed instructions so well that
it was only a few minutes before the
bears were heard thrashing through the
laurels to make their way out. The
three of them plunged into the open so
close to Tyson Jones that he dropped
n of them in its tracks and wounded
another.
The wounded bear and it's surviving
companion dashed back into the swamp
again. Farmer Jackson esumed his
barking like a dog n at once the
Iaurels began to crash again in a line
toward the open. The barking like a
dog suddenly ceased, though, and in it's
place human yells rose from the swamp
and from the line of thrashing laurels
out tumbled Farmer Jackson shouting:
The bears is after me! XIII 'em!
Kill 'em!"
One bear certainly was after him, it
evidently having discovered the fraud
Farmer Jackson had played on them
in barking like a dog, but the bears
had no sooner come in sight
through the laurels IN the wake of
Farmer Jackson than Tyson Jones sent
a rifle bullet to meet it. The bear
fell and another shot ended it's career.
In the excitement Of this stage of
the hunt the bear Tyson Jones had
wounded made its way out of the laurel
patch on the opposite side. 1t was
discovered by Frank Silsbie, one of the
and he killed IL.