The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-22
MIGHTY GRIZZLY
TRAPPED AFTER
AZ YEAR CHASE
Thousand Pound Bruin
Taken Near Dubois.
Had Killed Many
Cattle
Silver Tip Grizzly is dead.

Silver Tip Grizzly is dead.
He was bad actor.
This is the epitaph that the biolo-
gical survey of the United States de-
partment of agriculture conceived
yhen it received letter from Charles
j.. Bayer, predatory animal inspector
of the bureau, at Lander, Wyoming,
telling of the end of a 1,000-pound
monarch of beardom which has been
killing stock in the vicinity of Du-
| bois, Wyoming, for several years. A
o0-pound No. 6 bear trap anchored
at a 24-foot tree trunk was Silver
Tips undoing; but he broke the tree
and tore swath s miles long thru
| the forest before he finally. gave up
the ghost. Fifteen dead cattle, each
killed with a crushing blow beneath
the eyes and each with the liver re-
moved as bear delicacy, marked
the trail to the point where the ami
NAL was trapped 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.
In letter to DR.. A. K. Fisher, of
the biological survey, Inspector Bayer
gives the following account of Sill
yer Tip and his end:
while reports came in occasion
ally of large silver tip that was do
ing lot of killing in the vicinity
of Dubois, no authentic report was
received until the spring of 1918,
when several cattlemen asked that we
send man after the bear. A hunter
was sent up there and reported Kill
ling the bear this summer, but in
vestigation proved that the bear most
wanted was still at large He was
particularly destructive that sum-
mer, not only killing cattle, but de-
stroying camps and fire boxes be-
longing to the forest service and
wrecking anything 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 Rowley was then recon-
mended to us as bear hunter, and
we put him on the trail of the griz-
ely in the spring of 1920. For 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 COW
that had been killed short time be-
fore by the bear and he took up the
trail.
HE kept after him until he got
him, the fore part of September. Dur
ing the six weeks that he followed the
bear, he found Is dead of and g.
year-old cattle that the bear had kill
led, belonging to the Double Diamond
outfit, near Dubois.
"All these cattle were killed by
crushing blow beneath the eyes;
from the bears open paw. In most
cases the cattle were not eaten upon,
except where the bear had taken out
| the liver and eaten that.
1.-THE trap that finally got the bear
was No. 6, and was set about Au-
gust Is. The clog used was log "a
feet long and inches through.
liz ClO5 was plohCA oll 1OouG
so yards from where the trap was
set, and the bear carried away feet
of it land had this fastened to him
when he was found. He was found
eight miles from where he got into
the trap.
"In trailing through the timber
many trees and 7 inches through
had been uprooted, and in several
places the bear got into windfalls and
tore out the down logs, almost MAX
ing a road behind him in doing so.
He was dead when Mr.. Rowley
found him, and had been dead too
long to permit taking his skin. Mr..
Rowley said the bear would weigh
about 1000 pounds, the front feet
would measure about S1a inches
across, and the hind foot about II
inches in length.
THE fact that other hunters were
after the grizzly to get the So
bounty made Mr.. Rowley's work
l I.