| Show 4 Cleir clerical ical hunter rv thomas A uzzell pastor of the peoples returned home yesterday after a six weeks fishing an and d hunting bunting trip on the eagle river the reverend gentleman tells a very exciting story about the discovery pursuit and final killing by himself of perhaps the largest and most ferocious grizzly bear ever seen in the rocky mountains mr uzzell was strolling leisurely along the eagle river trout fishing and so interested that he be became separated from his bis companions when going out from camp in the morning me the guide of thle party insisted that mr uzzell should put a revolver in his pocket which the reverend gentleman finally consented to do at the isolated point where tie lie found himself about noon and while direnga disengaging I 1 j his line from a brush in which it te became entangled he be heard a rustling in the woods on the same side of the river he was on he thought it to be one of his compa companions rions and hollowed to him to his utter surprise and amazement a great grizzly pushed his way through the underbrush to the edge of the stream and stood within fifteen feet of the preacher of course the gentleman was paralyzed with fear what was to be done must be decided in a moment as his bis was evidently hungry the preacher dropped his rod iod and pulled his bis gun the bear uttered a growl the preacher cocked his bis pistol there was blood in ia sight would the preacher or the bear spill it first A pile of logs lay between tile the two the preacher raised his bis gun took deliberate aim and fired the bear plunged forward maddened with rage with a bulletin ballet in his hia neck another shot another and then tile fourth in lightning succession the bear plunged forward and having emptied his bis gun the preacher started creek on double doable quick time he e thought he had bad run about half a mile when he be sank down exhausted he looked about but could see no bear after resting a few moments he be retraced his steps and within ten feet of where the bear stood when he be fired the first shot lay the great brute dead as a macs maca erel deroer denver netus |
