Show from thursdays duly sept 18 hugged by a grizzly from of this city wo learn the full particulars of tho encounter mr john of i illard had with a grizzly at that place it appears that sir W with another something going on in his melon patch near a growth of willows and on proceeding thither discovered a grizzly bear with three cubs which immediate retreated into tho willows the two men started into tho willow patch after thorn mr W being armed with a gun the animals soon discovered and mr W without any hesitation walked up to tho mother of tha cubs and had actually succeeded in placing the of his weapon in her mouth but before he could firo the grizzly struck the gun with her paw and such was tho force of the blow that tho weapon was carried outside the willow patch the boar then started for mr and handled him pretty roughly biting him in the thigh and shoulder and otherwise badly injuring him during tho encounter ono of the cubs jumped upon mr kers shoulder and bit him the man a soon as the bear attacked his friend took up tho gun and sought to shoot the animal but mr W for fear of himself receiving the contents warned tho other not to fire tho latter alien resorted to stratagem and seizing one of the cubs made off with it the mother thereupon loft mr and aavo chase to his friend who let ho cub go and with tho wounded man mado good his escalo mr kera wounds are not necessarily dangerous |