Show local foresters have encounter with bear pumping shot after shot into tile tho body of an ail oncoming giant brown boar bear until tho animal fell lead dead at their feet only to look up and find themselves confronted by its mate was the experience albert A hardy and clias chas P evans of the ashley national pores forest service went through one day lat week and luckily emerged without a scratch atch so thrilling was wag tile the encounter or and so rare do of this kind occur that an account has been written foi the express by mr hardy one of the frangois involved and Is s as follows on the lay day of august 1915 albert A hardy avid and chas caits F P evans of the forest service started northward over faint faim creek mountain doing land classification welk we came suddenly on two blown bear so suddenly in fact that a pinch of danger spiced ced the tin of the midday adventure the wind was in our faces this had pro vented the b ear car hearing oi 01 smelling us the insult that topping the rise coveted with aspen and a young growth of lodgepole pine wo we unexpectedly met practically face to face the chiefs of the woods their meeting reminds me of a headon head on collision of a passenger train and a hand cat cai we reined in instantly and dismounted simultaneously and faced the lead beai 1 ea i ills his eyes full orbed its his long hair standing ills his head hold high and nostrils distended lie he was a magnificent beast to behold while the other edged up tip and crowded close beside him lie he planted its his foia feet in til th and stopped stock still the larger bear put ills his head down between its his gevat muse shoulders and bellowed a challenge at us ug as if to sav what business busina busin ss liane have you here alof at this moment two shots rang out ono one from a i and it a 38 18 smith weston revolved rev olvet vei both shots taking effect in the body wo estimated the di distance danco at tho time we made ali the 0 alist shota ahot a at t approximately 40 yaida then this king of the wilds wild started for us its lie suddenly stopped reared upon ills his hind feet holding his front feet straight in tile the air gave a terrific scream at this moment a bullet aiom the 32 20 struck him dalily in hi the bioust ile ho stained toward ard ut again and as it seemed lie ho was wag about to dial chat po en upon us its lie ho fell a doice tree both guns spoke again av this time one bullet hitting him in the back the other in the body fascinated with the excitement it amei occurred to us its to run oi 01 climb a tree perhaps it was aas best that it did not a second tile the bear was wag on ills his foot again and charging for us its the guns spoke again and both took effect in ili tho body was with nith us its foi fell dead at our feet we looked about us its tile the young mole bear as sta blinding tiding about 20 maids ft f m ua I 1 ut was vory and an arrit ble 11 I 1 stood lo 10 lol 11 of and conscious of ills his dignity asserting ills hia by baling bat ing lih teeth laying back lill his eav eais and his hair W wo shot at the same time thile both shots taking effect one in ili the dei det and the other the back within a second another shot front from the 38 18 took him fairly in the head tho the bear dropped dead putting an ail end to our troubles there Is one incident of this strange drama of tile the forest orest that nevor never will bo be forgot ten when the bear lay dead before us evans looked up at mo ino and said 41 we are lucky I 1 that boar bear chaigen down on ii ui like a bison of destruction i 1 I will never forgot forget it if I 1 live to be a million yeats old we looked at out oui re velvety velvets five shots had boen been bioni each one ten all told and overy every one lift hit their mark we congratulated our solves on our good marksman ship and proceeded to take tho off th ebeare one very peculiar incident coincident co is tho the fact that our horses were not of tile the bears and stood perfectly still during the bombardment bardill bar dment ent after tile tho beats beam were dead we led out oui hoists beiges up lip to them and out of tile the foul head only one seemed t to 0 pay any more attention to them than if they lead dead logs logg and this one just gave a faint sniffle we returned that evening to elk horn langei station with tile the two bears hadis and a hind of tile tho I 1 male boar bear which wits was very fat and juicy as they had beti beet living on oil veal it had been that a good many calves belonging to tile the local stockmen stoc kmen that had been graing with their matheis in that vicinity had recently been killed by bear on our fetui ii to the i anger station we met chas demoisy DeMol sy jr after lie he had scrutinized the bear hides lie ho said you fellows are in for it now you have killed the tame bears that the indians have their famous bear dance over evely they wait for these beats to corne come out of their winter beds and report to the chief then they start their dance he cautioned us to keep this under out oui hats and started foi whiterocks Whlter I 1 said chas dont d ont toll tell anybody will you ho he said no but if I 1 f I 1 do I 1 will be like the te women and tell them that 1 I 11 promised not to tell and that they must not tell anyone else well after we had a wapiti wash and a change of clothes we sat down to feast on bear steak lot hot bis suits fried potatoes strawberry jam jain and beylon tea after we had a sociable smoke of good old tobacco and told each other of our past experiences with bears mountain lions wild catt cattle etc and filed two more notches on oil our six shooter handles and retried for the night both of the same and one opinion that we beio two of the most bear kill ingest follos on oil oai eat th this may sound like a baat story to some but we should we have the bear hides and expect to have them made into bugs to place at the side of our beds so that when we get out of bed on cold firsty mornings to kindle the fire we will have a nice warm marin place for out oui toot sio sic tootsies A AA A HARDY |