Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-11
Federal Hunters Trap
Ends LazvIeSJ Career Of
Huge SilUer Tip Grizzly
Silver Tip Grizzly is dead.
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This is the epitaph that the bio
logical survey Of the United States
department Of agriculture conceived
when it received a letter from
Charles j. Bayer,. predatory animal
Inspector of the bureau, at Lander,
Wyo., telling of the end of a 1000
pound monarch of beardom which
has been killing stock in the vicinity
of Dubois, Wyo, for several years.
A fifty-pound No. 6 bear trap anchor
ed to a twenty-fourfoot tree trunk
was Silver Tips undoing; but he
broke the tree and tore a swath eight
miles long through cthe forest before
he finally gave up the ghost. Fifteen
dead cattle, each killed with crush
ing blow beneath the eyes and each
with the liver removed as a bear
delicacy, marked the trail to the
A 500 bounty had been placed on
Silver Tips head by stockmen. They
were saved this money, however, as
government hunters are not allowed
to accept bounties from any source.
Another stock killer has thus been
removed from the range.
Inspector Bayer Tells the Story
In a letter to DR.. A. K. Fisher, of
the biolC gical survey, Inspector Bay
er gives the following account of
Silver Tip and his end:
while reports came in occasional
ly of a large silver tip that was doing
a lot of killing in the vicinity of
Dubois, no authentic report was re-
ceived until the spring of 1918, when
several cattlemen asked that We send
a man after the bear. A hunter was
seat up there and reported killing the
bear that summer, but investigation
proved that the bear most wanted
was still at large He was particu-
larly destructive that summer, not
only killing cattle, but destroying
camps and fire boxes belonging to
the forest service and wrecking any
thing that he happened to encounter.
"a second hunter was sent up
there in the spring of 1919. He, too,
worked to get the bear, but without
success.
Hunter Row1ey was then recon-
mended to US as a bear hunter, and
we put him on the trail of the grizzly
in the spring of 1920. For a long
time he was unable to find any fresh
sign of the bear, or to find any cattle
freshly killed by him. About July
Is, this summer, he came upon a COW
that had been killed a short time be-
fore by the bear, and he took up the
trail.
HE kept after him until he got
him, the fore rarS of September. Dur
ing the six weeks that he followed
the bear, he found fifteen head of two
anu Iii 20 y ca .O1u CetSSiS IAie'N - y
bear had killed, belonging to the
Double Diamond outfit, near Dubois.
"Al1 these cattle were killed by a
crushing blow between the eyes, from
the bears open paw. In most cases
the cattle were not eaten upon, eX-
cept where the bear had taken out
the liver and eaten that.
1.-The trap that finally got the
bear was a No. 6, and was set about
August Is. The clog used was a log
twentyfour feet long and five inches
through.
"The clog was broken off about
fifty yards from where the trap was
set, and the bear carried away seven
feet of it, and had this fastened to
him when he was found. He was
found eight miles from where he got
into the trap.
A Trail of Destruction
"In trailing through the timber
many trees six and seven inches
through had been uprooted, and in
several places the bear got into
windfalls and tore out the down logs,
almost making a road behind him in
doing so.
He was dead when Mr.. Rowley
found him, and had been dead too
long to permit of taking his skin.
Mr.. Rowley said the bear" would