Show BARE HUNT Wes Was Woodruff Discovered a Old lle One He-One One in a Den a Posse Turned Out to Capture Him With the Result as Described Very Thrilling as per r Below There was excitement in Bingville Bingville Bingville Bing Bing- ville and vicinity last Thursday It 11 will willbe willbe be be re r remembered l b- b by bya a few e of our most respected citizens who participated as long as they live and after they are dead and gone wt w we the affair will be told by their children to their children and then on from their r children children chil chil- dren to their childrens children's children ad lib lib lib- for lo to these man many generations to come On Thursday morning Woodruff our expert hunter and trapper strapped on his snowshoes down his rifle and started out as lie said to see if if he couldn't shoot a gray squirrel or two for a pot pie Of course really believed belie Wes Ves when he told that he was hunting gray squirrels because but a blamed fool would hunt a after Her gray squirrels this time of year There aint ails t no doubt but what Ves Wes was really hunting hunting hunting hunt hunt- ing for was a deer There is is isa a law on m n deer eer in this vicinity now of course but that dont don't make no difference to Wes Ves when he is meat V Wes s dont don't think I it is any harm to kill a deer season seaon season sea sea- son on provided you dont don't get by bythe bythe bythe the game warden and so far farVes Wes Ves has been successful Well Vell Wes Yes strapped on his snowshoes sno and shuffled along two miles south of I Bingville until he come conic to the big high bluff at the bottom of which Snake Creek runs Yes Wes he lie was making r his way down over this bluff when he happened happened happened hap hap- to conic come to a hole that run rum under undera a ledge of rock and being of ofa a curious I turn of mind Ves Wes he stooped down and looked into the hole What at he seen in that den made his hair stand on end his blood run cold and the goose flesh stand out all oVer o him There inside was a big black bear which which- had up for the winter The The noise which Yes Wes made trade on the outside of its den probably waked it up for when Wes Ves looked into the den the bear was looking looking looking look look- ing out at him hint and when it seen en his face there at the mouth of the hole it give a l horrible growl which Wes Ves so that he went on over r backwards and tumbled and rolled heels over o head until he was down m to the bottom of the tile bluff Wes Vies says it is a wonder tha that fall didn't break his fool neck for him After he found his hat he thought it all over and says to If I crawl back backup backup backup up to that hole and shoot at that bear with my rifle and dont don't happen to kr kil it the chances chance is he will out at me and I give me one of the thrash- thrash ins I ever got in my life what life what I need is help Wes Yes knowd the bear would not come the hole unless he vas was disturbed so he hiked back to Ding Bingville as fast as he could hike and spread the news that he lie had found a bear bea r up and asked for volunteers to accompany him back to the den and there take the bear dead or alive This announcement caused great excitement and the n news ws that Wes Ves had found a bear spread like wildfire Several of our most citizens consent consented d to accompany Y Ves cs back to the scene of the tragedy per- per viding if the bear was killed they was to get some bear steak ft for r their trou trou- ble Wes Vies he promised them all the bear meat they wanted being as h he lie said all he for was the pelt so back Wes started at the head of the perces- perces which was composed of Constable Seth Dew Dewberry berry with his rifle Len Lcm Brown our expert carpenter who cat cai- ried red a axe Bill Hepburn our stalwart and artistic blacksmith was armed with witha a heavy sledgehammer and Eph Higgins Higgins Higgins Hig- Hig gins our accommodating postmaster who closed up the P. P O. O and brought up the rear rear with an iron post hole dig dig- ger When they at the scene of the crime they found the bear still till up but growling very cry threatening The Thc bear hunters all collected around the hole of the den and the question natch aria ariz as to who would fire the fatal shot Wes Ves said that being as he lie had often shot bears it wasn't no novelty to to him to shoot one so 50 he held out the ri rifle le to Seth Dewberry our lion-hearted lion town constable and told Seth this might be bethe bethe bethe the only opportunity hf ho he would ever have to shoot a bear so to go ahead and take tak advantage antage of it Seth declined with thanks thanks-itc thanks he said aid that if he lie was called upon to shoot a desp desperate rate criminal dead in his tracks and thus uphold the maj majesty esty es- es ty of the law Jaw he lie would not hesitate a instant but when it come to sticking the muzzle nuzzle of the rifle into a bears bear's den denand denand denand and shooting a pore old defenceless s bear who hadn't never harmed harme he didn't have ha the thc hea heart rt to do it Just then Bill Hepburn stepped up and said to give gire him that rifle and he would shoot that bear the Bill said he was not afeard of any bear that wore hair and walked on its two or four feet so 50 he grabbed the rifle and stepped up to the hole while the others stood back and waited with bated breath Wes AVes hollered at Bill not to shoot the bear bear through the but to shoot it right betwixt the eyes which was a fatal spot Bill he lie cocked the rifle took careful aim but just as he pulled the trigger his foot slipped and he shot against a big rock at the side of the den dos denand denand and the bullet bounded back and whizzed pa past t his head within an inch of his ear While the shot didn't touch the bear it stirred him up and he made a rush the hole with a roar of rage What simply beggars The bear hear rammed into Bill who was standing in front of the hole striking him with its head right in the sturn- sturn ick Bill went over backwards while the rifle was knocked outer his hands and struck Lem Lein Brown who was standing there with his axe raised and the axe fell and hit Bill a wallop on the top of the head which if it had been the sharp end would have ha sleeved ed his skull like as not I Seth Dewberry who was standing to toone toone one side with his revolver re cocked when 1 the bear rushed forth got so nervous he pulled the trigger and come within 2 inches of shooting in the foot As for Eph Higgins he slim dim dima slima a tree but when he got up about tight eight foot the limb he lie was holding to broke and he lie fell striking his head head on on a a. stone and rendering him hors de dc combat for fora a afew a afew few moments As for the bear he lit out down over the bluff and up side and into the hc woods like a streak Of f greased lightning As soon as Bill Hepburn could pick up he went up to Lent Lem Brown and shuk his fist under Lcm's Lenss nose and ast him what he meant by hitting him hies over O the head with a axe like that Lem apologized apologized apol apol- saying he die done it and was was sorry Then Bill cooled down The bear hunters who went with Ves was a good deal disappointed not to get any bear steak and returned to Bingville Bingville Bingville Bing Bing- ville in deep disgust None of them tin aint t got very very much to say about their bear hunt |