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Show I A Grizzly Among Goats. Dr. McCracken and Frank Lewis have a ranch on the Pine Fudge, sixteen or eighteen miles east of San Jose, upon which they have a considerable number num-ber of Cashmere and common goats. The former, however, are better cared for at night than the less valuable kind, being s-hut up in a tight enclosure. About ten days ago the herder was attracted by a disturbance among the common goats, and taking id his hand a double barreled gun, loaded with bird shot, proceeded to the yard where the common goats wpre.when h? found himself in close proximity to a large bear. The herder fired off one barrel at the bear, which bruin did not seem to mind, and then he discharged at him the other barrel; which somewhat excited the bear's indignation, for he immediately turned upon his assailant and gave chase, the herder only by the swiftest kind of foot exercise being able to get within the door of his cabin and close it as the enraged beast came up to it. The bear killed and disposed of two of the goats. It is said the neighboring hills are full of bears, and that there is near by a fine little lake in which they cool off in the heat of the day. San Jose Patriot. |