| Show OUGHT TO SEE HIS PARTNER oien well used up in a bear right but nothing aiho the other man A man who looked as if he had been trying to hug the cylinder of a threshing machine when it was in motion was seen offering a pk f fars to a dealer up town yon are rather late getting your furs to market said a reporter who happened to be present yes was the reply but I 1 have been laid up and could not get to town before what has been the matter with you asked the reporter who was anxious to know how the man had been so fearfully scratched the matter with me was an attack of bear you had it bad judging from your looks yes I 1 had it bad and no mistake but you just ought to see my partner Is he in a worse fix than you A great deal worse he had so meat scratched off one side of him that ho has to carry a weight in his jacket pocket to enable him to walk straight the sale of the furs having been completed the old trapper was abbed for the story of his encounter with the bear he said his name was hans olsen that he lived on the edge of the big bum in Clack amus county and he went out on the headwaters of the clackamas Clack amas trapping with peter hansen who lives in the same section they had good luck for a while caught many minks some fishers and found a swamp and small lake where there were many beaver and were getting many of them when deep snow came on and about spoiled their trapping after a while the snow became so deep that they could hardly move around and could not get out of the mountains at all then provisions ran short and they had to rustle and try to kill something to eat they went out on the lake ona day and cut a liole through the ice to see if they could catch some trout lut du not get any on their way home toward night as they were crossing a little ravine on a fallen tree olsen slipped and fell near tho roots of the tree and camo down plump into a bears den the bear was very lively for an animal supposed to he asleep and at once attacked him he had a knife and a small hatchet in his belt and he got out the hatchet and began to chop and yell hansen who was behind had a gun but ho waa afraid to fire down in the dark for fear of killing his friend and nt length drawing his knife jumped down with him and the bear there was a lively timo there for a while and the fur and clot liing and flesh flew but finally hansen who was the worst used up man of tho two managed to reach a vital spot with the bear keeled over and the two trappers keeled over also they managed to make a little fire with some of the leaves and twigs from the bears nest and there i was plenty of rags to bandage their wounds for they were all rags it was several days before they could crawl to their camp with a hunk of the bears flesh which had been their only food I 1 during their stay in the den olsen bays he intends to go trapping again but ho never wan to meet another bear in his own den again his partner hansen is able to walk around and go down to the creek and catch a few trout and look after the beehives portland oregonians oregonian Ore gonian |
