Show I 1 DESTRUCTIVE BEAR BEARIS IS CAUGHT AFTER THREE YEARS Silver Tip Kills Cattle Destroys Destroys De De- Camps but Finally Finally Finally Fin Fin- ally Is Caught LANDER Wyo Nov No 15 Silver SUver Silver Tip Grizzly Is 13 dead doad Ho lie was a bad actor So 80 sa says s Charles J. J Bayer Dayer predatory animal Inspector of the department of agriculture telling of the end of a 1000 pound monarch of which has been killing stock In the vicinity of Dubois Dubois Dubois Du- Du bois Wj Wyo Vo o for several years A fifty pound fifty pound No o o. 6 bear trap anchored to a twenty four Coot tree trunk was Silver Silver Sil Sil- ver Tips Tip's undoing but he broke the tho tree treo and tore a swath eight miles long through the forest before he finally gave up the ghost FIFTEEN DEAD CATTLE Fifteen dead cattle each killed with witha a crushing blow beneath the eyes and each with the liver removed as a bear delicacy marked the trail trait to the point where the animal was trapped Inspector Bayer gave the following account account account ac ac- count of ol Silver Tip and his end While jilo reports came in occasionally of a a. large silver tip that was doing a lot of ot killing in the vicinity of Dubois Dubols no authentic report was received until the spring of 1918 when several cattlemen cattlemen cattle cattle- men Inca asked that we send a man after the bear DESTROYS CAMPS The bear was particularly destructive I that summer not only killing cattle but I destroying camps and fire tire boxes belong belong- I ing lug to the forest service and wrecking anything that he happened to encounter I A second hunter was sent up there In the spring of 1919 He too worked to get the bear but hut without success Hunter Rowley was then recommended recommend recommend- ed to use as a a. bear hunter and we put him on the trail of the tho grizzly in the spring of 1920 For a long time he was Unable unable unable un un- able to find any fresh tresh sign of the bear or 01 to find any cattle freshly killed by him About July 15 15 this summer he came upon a sow that had been killed a a. short timo before belore by tho the bear and he be took up the trail LANDS BEARRe BEAR He Re kept after him until he got him the fore part of September During the six weeks that h ho followed the bear he found fifteen head of or cattle that the thc bear had killed All these cattle were killed by a crush crush- lug ing blow I beneath t the eyes from the bears bear's open paw In most cases the c cattie cat cat- tie tle were not eaten up except where the bear had taken out the liver and eaten I that I The rhe trap that finally got the bear wasa was wasa I a No 6 G. G and md was set about August 1 15 1 The clog used was as a log twenty twenty- four four feet long and five inches through BREAKS LEG The Tue log was broken off ort and the bear carried away feet of it H md had fiad this fastened to him when ho he hoL was L found He lIe TV was as found eight miles l' l from cOin v here he got ot into tho the troop trap In trailing the timber many I trees s sIx sis and seven inches tl through rough h had h. id been uprooted and in I e t places the bear got sot into tho the and tore out the I down logs almost almot making maling a road behind him in doing so He was dead when found The bear beai would weight about 1000 pounds the front feet would measure about eight and one one- one one-I half Inches across and the hind foot about tW twelve e inches in length I |