Show I IIENTFIEDEAI1 f R IS BEAD KILLED AT TH BIO GRADE DEPOT YESTERDAY I Old Boy Was Getting a Bit Cross So They Slew Him and Will Sell Him I Stakes and Cutlets Old Ben the Rio Grande Western bear who has delighted the heart of the eastern tourist when the train stopped at the station who has caused the timid kid to shrink back when he came from his cage who has been kodaked and premod and bullseyed and kombled and photaksd more than any bear that ever lived is I dead He died yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large and admiring audience I au-dience from the effects of a rifle shot fired into his head at a point behind the ear the rifle being held by Charlie Plant I a company butcher in the employ of the Halthusen Ben has been getting ugly of late He I wanted to hibernate Wanted to curl up I and go to sleep The children wouldnt let him Neither would the grown men Just as soon as Ben would get his head between his legs and get to snoozing and dreaming of next summer when he would get several pounds of candy per day some kid or grown man would cpme along and snowball him till he wok up to find the thermometer away down below zero He charged on one or two people and charged hard He came out i I with a woof and said as plain as abe a-be r could say Here you dont you sea I want to go to sleep for two or three months Why do you disturb my bearlike slumbers and wake me uo By the con I spoliation of Ursa Major but Ill chew a foreleg off some of you And as Ban hadnt a very strong chain on him it was 1 decided that perhaps it would be a wise thing to end his days Halthusen wanted the bears skin and I j I Marriott wanted his meat so one could I make a robe and the other could sell a lot I I of the dead game sports here bear steak The two of them put up a combination on I BenThey decided to end his days yesterday I afternoon at 230 The reporters were invited I in-vited and attended promptly The manager I man-ager of Halthusen was not so prompt and not until he had been told over the telephone that unless he got a move on I the press would not report his bear hunt did he get action I Thon after a time came the managers St Bernard dog The d g appreciated matters and offered to go in and kill Ben 1 I alone and unassisted but was restrained i i Then came a man bearing a butchers steel and a knife Then came another man with another I knife but no steel The crowd then discussed what they I would do if the bar wasnt killed first shot but was simply wounded The I Tribune man suggested climbing a pole and the ticket agent was for going up on the roof The balance of the crowd suggested sug-gested running In the midst of the discussion Plant arrived ar-rived with his gun He took careful aim and pulled the trigger Ben didnt drop The reason was that Plant had forgotten to load his gun I I The next time he loaded I Ben suspected sus-pected harsh designs and charged but retreated when Plant discreetly retired to the fence The next attempt was all I right and Ben died without knowing what had happened His long sleep came to I himBen will hang in front of Marriotts today to-day and scores of people with a taste fort for-t wild game will contract for his fat and juicy steaks For he was fat Fat as I butter Ben was four years old and was brought from Thistle when a cub He has grownup I grown-up in our midst and will go down in some I of our midsts I is a sad end for so noble an animal being converted into chyle but such Is fate I Great Caeser might someday I some-day stop the bunghole In a barrel as has I been stated why should Ben not become I ribs a portion of the lining of some epicures I I I I |