The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-14
STORIES or BEAR HUNTERS:
EXCITING PURSUITS or BRUZN

TSrfneF jackson Dafkeu Like a Icy
Norwich Hill, Pa, Special: Tyson
Jones, an old time Sinnemahoning bear
hunter, had kept his eye on a swamp in
the Bear Creek country ever since
huckelberry time, for he a reason to
believe that 1T was harboring three
bears. and his mind was made up re-
garding what he would do to those
bears when the open eason for bears
came along.
1t came October /, and these three
must have forgotten that bears We're
no longer under protection of the law.
for they left many signs about the
swamp that they We're still there, not
-withstanding the proximity of Tyson
Jones and other bear hunters. So
summoning four other hunters to join
him Tyson Jones started out after the
bears.
The swamp was dense with laurels.
The hunters We're posting themselves
about so as to be sure of getting the
bears when the latter We're routed out,
when Farmer George Jackson, who
lives in the v.3'nity 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 hat he guessed
they would first get the three bears
that We're in the swamp and then they
| NolIu dltcIu 10 lHe business OIL Ear1n-
er Jackson's three. But they didn't get
the three bears that were in the swamp,
because the three bears We're no longer
there.
Whether or not it 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 it was
being surrounded, and their trail was
leading in the direction of
another laurel patch several miles dis
tant. AS a short cut thither the bears
had aiken 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 1t, but their
two logs refused to go in and rout the
bears u In this emergency Farmer
Jackson said that while he wasn't any
kind of a bear hunter he could bark Tx
a dog first rate. Tyson Jones told him
10 go into the swamp then and park
like a dog.
He followed Instructions so well that
1t was only a few minutes before the
bears We're 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
one OF them in its track and wounded
another.
The wounded bear and its surviving
dashed back into the swamp
again. Farmer Jackson resumed his
parking like a dog and at once the
laurels 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 thrashipg laurels
out tumbled Farmer Jackson Shouting:
bears is after me! Kill 'em!
Kill emf"
One bear certainly was after him, it
evidently having discovered the fraud
Farmer Jackson nae played on them
head had no sooner come in sight
through the laurels in the wake of
Farmer Jackson than Tyson Jones sent
q rife bullet to meet 1T. The bear
fell and another shot ended. its career.
In the excitement of this stage of
the hunt the bear Tyson Jones had
made it's way out Of the laurel
patch on the opposite side. It was
discovered by Frank Silsbie, one Of the
hunters, and he killed it.
Lyman's Old Gun Woke Up the Woods
Jamestown, N. Y, Special: Bert Ly-
man drives team for one of the big
tanneries over the state line In Warren
county, Pa. He took a day off after the
hunting season opened and went out to
shoot squirrels.
he saw w gray squirrels run UP a
tree, n while he was trying to get a
sight of them he heard a noise in the
bushes. Looking in that direction he
was not a little surprised to see a
bear coming at him, bristles on end,
and big teeth shining between its open
jaws.
Lyman hadn't time to run and he
had only No. 6 shot in his gun. He had
two loads of it, though, and he did the
only thing he could think Of. He let
the bear have both Of those loads Of
No. 6 shot.
Lyman was compelled to lie down
quickly on his back from the recofl Of
that double discharge. When he got up
again the bea was lying down toe, but
1T did not get up. There was a reason.
The top of its hea was missing.
Before he had time to notice what
had happened to the bear, Lyman had
another surprise. AS he rose from the
ground he heard a great scralnbling
In the trees and saw frightened
gray squirrels, black squirrels and
red squirrels scampering among the
branches in all directions. Besides
these he saw three young bears come
sprawling down to the ground out of
three different trees, look about them
q with terror in their eyes,
and then make a break for the deeper
woods as fast as their dumpy legs
would carry them.
Seems like my old gun has woke UP
these wood amazin'," Lyman remark
ed after he recovered his breath. and
then he went home to get help to get
the dead bear In.
The bear was a female, big and fat
The hunters thereabouts say the three
young bears We're her offspring, and
she got 1t into her e that the man
with h gun a fell designs on them.
as he was scrutinizing the tree tops
trying to get sight Of SQUIRRELS.
Jim Guarded the Bears While Joe Went
for, a Gun.
Bath, N. r, special: Jim Palen and