The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-11-11
BIG GRIZZLY IS DEAD
Bringing Silver Tip 10 Aeoount-Pays
for Long Career of Depredations

Bringing Silver Tip 20 Aeoount-Pay,
for Long Career Of Depredations
+ Silver Tip Grizzly is dead.
lie was a bad actor
This Is the epitaph that the Biolog.
Iical Survey OF the United States Dc.
parsment Of Agriculture conceived
when il received letter from Charles
| j Bayer, predatory animal Inspector
OF the bureau. At Lander, Wyo., tell.
inP Of the end Of l,00O-pound mon
arch Of beardom which has been kill
ing stock in the vicinity Of Dubois,
Wyo, for several years A 50pound
No. bear trap anchored 10 a 24foot
tree trunk was Silver Tips undoing;
bet he broke the tree and tore swath
ciPht miles long through the forest be
fore he finally gave up the ghost.
Fifteen dead cattle, each killed with
a crushing blow beneath the eyes and
each with the liver removed as a bear
delicary, marked the trail to the point
where the animal was trapped A
500 bounty had been placed on Silver
Tips head BY stockmen. They were
saved this money, however, a. Gov
eminent hunters are not allowed to
accept bounties from any source. An
other stock killer has thus been re-
moved from the range.
Inspector Bayer Tells The Story
In letter 70 Dr A. X. Fisher, Of
lie Biological Survey, Inspector Bayer
gives the following account Of Silver
Tip and his end
While reports came in occasionally
Of large silver tip that was doing 4
lot Of killing in the vicinity Of Dubois,
no authentic report was received until
the spring Of 1918, when several cat
tlemen asked that we send a man
after the bear. A hunter was sent up
there and reported killing the bear
that summer, but investigation proved
that the bear most wanted was still at
large. He was particularly destruc-
tive that summer. not only killing cat
tie, but destroying camps and fire
boxes belonging to the Forest Service
and wrecking anything that he hap
pcned TO encounter.
"A second hunter was sent up there
il the spring Of 1919. He, too worked
10 get the bear, but without success.
Hunter Rowley was then recon-
mcnded TO us as bear hunter, and we
put him on the trail of the grizzly in
the spring of 1920. For long time
he was unable TO find any fresh sign
II the bear, or to find any cattle
freshly killed by him. About July Is,
his summer, he came upon COW that
lad been killed short time before by
he bear, and he took up the trail.
He kept after him until he got him,
he fore part Of September. During
he six weeks that he followed the
], ar, he found Is head Of two and
hree year old cattle that the bear had
Jilled belonging to the Double Diam
md outfit, near Dubois.
"All these cattle were killed by
rushing blow beneath the eyes; from
he bears open paw In most cases
he bear had taken out the liver and
qten that.
"The trap that finally got the bear
vas No. 6. and was set about August
5 The clog used was a log "a feet
cng and inches through.
"The clog was broken off about so
ards from where the trap was set,
nd the bear carried away seven feet !
7 il. and had this fastened to him
-hen he was found. He was found
ight miles from whore he got into the
rap
4 Trail of Destruction
"In trailing through the timber
iany trees six ard seven inches
trough had ssen unrooted and in !.
svaral pIaees the bear rot into wind
ilIs and tore out the down logs. at
.ot making a road behind him IN !.
oire s..
nc was dead WHOM vi Row.ey
5und him, and had been dead too long
permit of taking his skin. Mr Z
owley said the bear would weigh I
Bout 1000 pounds. the front feet 81
ould measure about s4 inches Z
ross. and the hind foot about u q
ches IN length =
The fact that other hunters were q
tier The grizzly 70 get The 500 boun- 9
made Mr.. Rovicy's work harler 7