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Show Treed by a Bear. For three hours H. J. Wells, a farmer living near Aiming, southeast of St. Paul, was he'.u op o-a a slim sapling a I few yards away from his house by a j big black bear. j ' Well? had gone through a small woods in ser .'ch of som ;attle which had strayed, and as he went along the trail was confronted by a bear which rose upon his haunches as if to attack him. Wells, being unarmed, threw his hat at the bear, and while the animal ani-mal worried it, the farmed climbed a tree. The bear found the tree too small for it to clinb. and after spending three hours gnawing at the roots was finally driven away by a small dog, which had been attracted by Wells' cries for help. |