Show KILLS HUGE BEAR WITH CLUB BELIEVE IT OB NOT bishop W D hammond grand county s in the state legislature gets the prize for the best bear story of the year and moreover its a true bear story last week bishop hammond set a trap for a bear which had been playing havoc with one of his sheep herds in the la sal mountains the next day he rode to the trap and to his surprise found that he had caught mr bruin by a hind toot not having a gun mr hammond set about devising a way to dispatch the sheep bluer the bear a huge brown specimen showed plenty of fight but the bishop after several attempts managed to lasso the animal around the neck he fastened the rope tightly to a tree and old bruin found himself stretched out the then armed himself with a green quaking aspen pole and proceeded to work on mr bear after delivering several dozen blows which apparently had no effect on the animal he struck the bear a stunning blow on the back of the head and the deed was done bishop hammond brought the bears pelt to moab and sent it to salt lake city to be mounted into a rug the bear weighed from to pounds mr hammond estimated |