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Show Boy Kills Bear. While herding sheep southeast of Mayfield, Elmer Anderson, a 12 year-old year-old boy, was attacked by a large grizzly griz-zly bear. The boy fired at the bear, inflicting only a fleah wound in the neak. After having used all his cartridges cart-ridges to no effect, he returned to the camp and securing more ammunition took up the bear's trail. In the meantime his dogs had pursued pur-sued the bear to the brush;, whare it turned upon them-. The boy fired and the bullet found its mark. The bear was one of the largest of his kind, weighing about 800 pounds. The hide measured about eight feet from tip. to tip. Young Anderson is a nephew of the Mortenson brothers, who killed four silver-tip bears a little over a month ago while attending their flock of sheep. |