Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-04-17

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 had reason to
believe that ii was harboring three
bears, and his mind was made UP re-
garding what he would do to those
bears when the open season for bears
came along.
1t came October 1, and these three
must have forgotten that bears were
no longer under protection of the law,
for they left many signs about the
| swamp that they were still there, not
withstanding the proximity of Tyson
Jones and other bear hunters. So
summoning four other hunters to join
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, who
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 that he guessed
they would first get the three bears
that were in the swamp and then they
"OuIu dllSHu u lHe DuSlIleSS Ol arm
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 it had come suddenly
| to the bears what day II was does not
| appear but at any rate il dawned on
the hunters that the three had managed
| 10 get out of the swamp while II was
| 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 this emergency Farmer
| Jackson said that while he wasn't any
kind of bear hunter he could bark like
q dog first rate. Tyson Jones told him
to go into the swamp then and bark
| like a dog.
| He followed instructions so we'll that
1t was only a few minutes before the
bears We're heard thrashing through the
! iaurels 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 tracks and wounded
another.
! Ilt Nbuuutu DedE ana It's surviving
companion dashed back into the swamp
again. Farmer Jackson resumed his
barking like dog and at once the
! taurelS began to crash again in a line
| toward the open. The barking like a
dog suddenly ceased, though, and in its
place human yells rose from the swamp
and from the line of thraShing laurels
out tumbled Farmer Jackson shouting
! Ihe bears Is after me! Kill EN-!
KIN 'em!"
one bear certainly was after him. II
evidently having discovered the fraud
GARNER Jackson had played on them
n barking like dog, but the bears
head had no sooner come in sight
through the laurcls in the wake of
Farmer jackson than Tyson Jones sent
a rifle bullet to meet it. The bear
feil and another shot ended its 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
nuntcrs, 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 tt
shoot squirrels.
He saw two gray squirrels run up g
!ree, and while he was trying to get 8
sight of them he heard noise In the
bushes. Looking in that direction ht
was not little surprised to see &
bear coming at him, bristles on end
and big teeth shining between it's oper
Jaws.
Lyman hadn't time to run and h,
had only No. 6 shot in his gun He haC
| loads fhnnDh ha ! l..
only thing he could think of. He le
tAe bear have both OF those loads o.
No. shot.
Lyman was compelled to lie dowr
quickly on his back from the recoil o.
shat double discharge. When he got VI
again the bear was lying down too, bu
It did not get up. There was a reason
The top Of it's head was missing.
Before he had time to notice wha
had happened to the bear, Lyman haC
another surprise. AS he rose from tn,
ground he heard great scramblinl
N the trees and saw frightened
gray squirrels, black squirrels ant
red squirrels scampering among tn,
branches in all directions. Beside
these he saw three young bears com
sprawling down to the ground out O
three different trees, look about then
& moment with terror in their eyes
and then make a break for the deepe
woods as fast as their dumpy leg
would carry them.
Seems like my old gun has woke III
these woods amaZin'," Lyman remark
ed after he recovered his breath, an
then he went home TO get help to ge
The dead bear in.
The bear was a female, big and fat
The hunters thereabouts say the thre
young bears were her offspring, an
she got il into her head that the MAJ
with the gun had fell designs on then
as he was scrutiniZing the tree top
trying to get sight OF squirrels.
Jim Guarded the Bears While Joe Wen
for Gun.