Show I EVICTED GRIZZLY FOUGHT Bruin Lost His Life Because His Den Was Filled With Water Pacific Jim Brewster a Canadian interesting story oC a guide tells an he exhibited skin which e bears grizzly at the Sportsmens Show It appears breaking camp late that just as he was in November after he had Initiated a party Into the delights oC big horn tracks were noticed hunting the grizzlys ticed in the snow You will probably wonder says bear happened to Brewsler why this be 1 wandering around ut a time of the hiber year when he should have been I can explain the mat na linG Perhaps ter The bear Is fairly cunning In select sometimes he but inc n place lo den up unfortunate Usually he gets a place Is un well in a small narrow valley fairly timbered with very few 1C any avalanche ava-lanche rumyays In it There he flndg a cut bank on tho creek that runs In the bottom and in this cut bank he prepares an abode for the winter pares Sometimes bears make a bad mistake mis-take in their choice When we get cold weather before any snow comes the small streams freeze up 1 solid and keep I overflowing until I have seen them l piled nearly twenty feet high with Ice until continues to rise Thus the water It reaches the residence of Mr Bruin which shortly becomes half full of water wa-ter and makes things so cold and uncomfortable un-comfortable for him that he has to get out Then after hanging around for a day or so he make up his mind that there Is not much chance oC Utlr more sleep In that hole and wanders oft and tries to find heavy fallen green timber or perhaps he makes straight for a hole he has wlnlered In some previous year Brewster and the gentleman he was guldiiiff set out after the bear and followed fol-lowed him for LWO days They finally located him In clump of trees near the I Clearwuter river From a height they 1 saw his tracks entering the wood but could see no tracks leaving he timber The guide goes on to soy We started our dog down the ridge Into the wood He had not left us long before we hoard a loud burking In the lower end of the woods Running along 1 the ridge for fifty yards we came In view oC a large grizzly sitting1 under a root the dog baying furiously thirty feet or so In front oC him My companion dropped down on one knee so ns to get a steady aim and fired The bear rae one bound and dashed straight for the doS who on being chased headed straight for us When they got within seventyfive yards oC tin and almost straight below I us at the foot of the hill we both lived The bear dropped to the ground this time but regained his feet almost Instantly in-stantly and Instead of following the dog made otralght for us covering the space between us in long bounds Things were getting very Interesting Interest-ing with a thoroughly enraged grizzly rushing straight for us and now about fifty yards off Wo both fired again the bear drooping the second time only to get UP as before and continue his rush toward us We fired our third volley tOHol rat r-at a range of not more than fifteen yards The bear dropped on his side lay still for a moment then struggled to his feet but just us my companion brought his rifle to his shoulder to give him another shot bruin reeled back and diedOn On examining the fur our attention was drawn to tho amount of Ice that was collected in It and this went to show that my theory of how and why this bear had left his den was probably correct After skinning him we found that Blx out of the seven shots had entered en-tered the body and one had gone clear through his heart which one it was we were unable to determine but It was most likely one of the last lwoNew York SLID I |