The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-13

using black powder in U. M. c.. shells.
I ran onto very large grizzly tracks
which were fresh and followed them
little ways up the mountain. In
short time I discovered Mr.. Bear
about 60 yards ahead of me. He was
quartering away from me. I pullec
up on him and shot him through the
hind shoulder. He stopped and
bumped up his back. Before he could
recover from the first shot had re-
loaded my gun and had given him
another one almost in the same spot.
I loaded my gun as quick as possible.
The bear turned around and let out
a roar making directly for me. I
was standing near a small dead tree.
Stepping behind the tree I waited for
him to come. He came by me within
ten feet but paid no attention to me.
He went on down the hill. I saw the
blood RI ming from his mouth and
knew that he was shot through the
lungs He ran about 20 yards and
turned around Evidently he had not
located me until he got my wind.
held my fire for I knew that 1 had
him as he would have to come up hill
and was badly wounded. I sized UP
the tree that I was standing by and
I saw that there were no limbs On
it, only small stub, not suitable to
climb in a hurry. I decided to con-
tinue to hold my fire waiting until
me. He reared up and plunged to-
ward me which they always do. This
gave me an opening to put the bullet
in a vital spot, which I did by break
ing his neck. He went down and out
shot through the neck.
Then I realized the close call that
had bad for if this bear had wind
ed me before he got to the tree as
he came Gown the hill the chances are
/ wouldn't be here to tell you this
story He proved to be one of the
largest grizzly bears that I ever kill
ed.
eff I had been armed with a modern
gun like the 35 Remington auto load
ing. rifle, the same as I and Mr.. King
had on our trip after Kad;ak grizzly
bear at Kadiak Island, Alaska where
we killed four grizzlys in ten seconds
May, 1909 that grizzly would never
have moved from the spot where I
first shot at him with only the single
srot Sharps. With the auto loading
rifle I would have cut him to pieces.
Alaska is very interesting coun-
try. A person does not realize the
size of Alaska unless they have been
up there. The scenery in southeastern
Alaska is the grandest in the world.
1t is the only large game country
where game of all kinds abound now
on the American continent. We have
the moose, the Kadfak grizzly, the
largest bear in the world, the common
black and brown bear the Glacier
White sheep and Mountain goats. AS
for fowls we have the Pomigan, and
countless millions of ducks and geese
during the breeding seasons There
are hundreds of square miles of ter
terry that has never been trodden
by the feet of white men. That is
the country north of the great Yukon
or otherwise in the Arctic circle. Great
possibilities await in Alaska the young |
man VITA ambition and love for ad-
venture, who is willing to go up
against hardships and frontier life |
is to make the statement that there |
are more mosquitoes to the square !
inch there during June, July and |
August than any other country on
the globe.
ANY sportsman looking for adven-
ture, hunting, or fishing should go to |
Alaska. I have seen IA 900 salmon |
caught in a siene at one drag at one |
of the canneries there. A big Alaska |
bear will kill more salmon than all |
the canneries would use in year. He |
VIII get on a rifle of a small stream |
spawn. He will attack a school with |
lightning rapidity and will throw |
from forty to fifty fish weighing |
about 10 pounds apiece onto the bank |
of the river. When he has finished |
he will go ashore and take one bite |
out of the back Of each fish, just back
of the head Of the salmon. This one
bite of each fish is all that he cares
for. 1t seems to be choice tidbit.
''These bears are now protected by
the game laws of Alaska. A hunter
is allowed to kill only three a year.
Instead of protecting those bears it |
looks to me, knowing the conditions,
that bounty should be offered for
killing them as these bears not only
destroy tons and tons of salmon but
there are many instances on record
where they have killed prospectors,
miners and fishermen.
MANY a missing prospector and
miner in that country who has gone
out into the open and never returned
fell prey to these beasts if the facts
could be known
A cloth moistened with kerosene is
preferred by some laundresses to all
else for wiping off flatirons while US