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Show KILLING A HUGE GRIZZLY. Two MnnLuti Uoj-b Show (ire.it Pluck in :i Fight With 11 Bear. A monster grizzly was killed last i'Tdday iu the mountains east o! Mantua, lie weighed abuut 800 pounds. liefure he was finally finished h came near "doing up" two young men of Mantua. My ruin Lpsen and John M. Jensen were out hunting. They came upon unusually large tracks of a bear, which they traced through brush, mud and snow fu' nearly three miles. On approaching a thicket of .scrub oaks down in Sink Hide, they suddenly heard the cracking of dn willows, und before they could bring their guns to their shoulders, a huge, tierce hear sprang out of tlu chimp almost upon them. Fortunately for tlie boys he was halted in his second bound toward them, by a shot which struck hie right fore leg; the next entered his ear, when he fell to the ground; doubled up and died almost at their Lett. Their position would have been an extremely perilous one. had not tin second lucky shot have killed the big grizzly stone dead. |