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Show Bruin Was Came ":u Me Death Twenty Wayn'e'Countinns Have Sport and Excitement in a Sunday Bear Chase.-" ,' Special to The Tribune. TIIURBER, Jund 15. Poking a bear out of a cave with clubs and guns was a pairtlme for twenty odd Wayne county men and boys Sunday. Sun-day. And a merry time they had of It. John Chidestcr and Mort Baker had been looking over the mountains and they rode on to a big bear. Having Jost no live stock of that description they were not prepared to take bruin In and returned to town to get a posse. within thirty minutea twenty men ami boys, largely composing the Thurber rough riders, were ridiiur like mad to tho neighboring hills. The bear was soon located and a chase began. Over rocks, through the timber Into canyons andup into the mountains pursued pur-sued and purauer raced with wild-eyed Impetuosity. Hot lead was poured Into the arilmal's ipelt until his body tottered and trcmbfed and he took refuge in a near-by cave. Hero Is where courage Was demanded. ISvery member of tho company was willing to sacrifice his neighbor, but was not especially hungry, for bear meat himself. Back into the cavern could be seen the fiery eyeballs of the frightened and bleeding beast. Shots were Ineffective, the only result being to provoke savage grpwla that started several of the pursuers pur-suers up a tree. Jack Smith is an old bear hunter. He has-Vaught more than a dozen big grizzlies griz-zlies by the tall In his day and he would have tackled this one in like manner, but bruin Insisted on sitting on It and wouldn't give him any chance. It was here that Charles Torgenson braced up and offered to accompany any living man into the cave. Jack Smith stepped forward and the other eighteen bravca agreed to guard the entrance and see that the bear gave the adventurers full meayure for their prowess, Into the cave they crept until the wounded and mangled animal was reached. He had been husbanding his strength during the parleying and when the men Jabbed their gunbarrels Into his mouth he made a center rush and cleared the breastworks. Then It was that reserves had to do something. Those who had noti forgotten forgot-ten to load their weapons or wlere not upon the rocks or In the scrub oakr. fired a broadside Into the bear and threw rocks and their guns at the animal ani-mal which rushed into the open and w.is shot dead at the feet of G. L. Strlngam as he lay prostrate with excitement several sev-eral yards from the cave. Eleven men carried the bear to the base of the mountain, where It was loaded Into a wn'gon and brought to town. Twenty dollars has been offered for the pelL |