Show UN IN BATTLE 1 WITH A BEAR BRUIN with BULLET IN HEART GIVES SCOTCHMAN TERRIBLE FICHT FIGHT VICTIM H HAS A S A CLOSE CALL in clutch of brute when bear fall falls dead survive survives after being terribly wounded and suffer suffers long time victoria B C ot of the many battea battles that have ben blen waged between man inan and the grizzly cone none wae was ever more exciting or came closer to death for the roan man than that ought fought recently by jamea jame 1 1 M christie Chr letle who hae hats come to victoria victo r la a few daya days ago for burstell Bur steal as 89 distance ci si christie and the bear locked in close conflict for but a few then the brute dropped dead and christie was burled hurled into the bushe crushed maimed and blood drenched while the enow snow tor for yards around wae wall crimson w with ith the blood of the corn com batanus I 1 christie had tracked the bear several miles to punish him for robbing a cache of moose meat lie ila had bad juat just fired a shot at a wolf wait frona from hie his rifle and found that the eights sights needed adjustment lust ment luckily he be fixed them at once for within five minutes bo he heard ime of the brushwood and aaa the beast that walks like a man that beara bears will never attack man la Is very well in theory grizzlies are exceptions this bear camo for christie i on the run and the hunter bad had barely time to awing swing his rifle and pull trig gor with a it snap aim for the heart the brute being less 1 than thirty yards away the first shot caught the grizzly through the heart and lungs but failed to stop him k second hit the he animal in the head cl ristle shed his snow shoes and tried tt tl dodge into the bushes then cumo came the beare bears inning innings the brush was too thick for the man but the bear tramped it down like reeda reeds and pushed forward roaring and grunting in characteristic grizzly fashion aa ail christie fell in an at tempt to dodge the bear clapped his immense paw a 01 the mans mano head lead and began tearing at kin fc face faco and body the bear gave a vicious snap and christie felt the teeth about hia his neck in desperation the man threw up hie his right arm and fate rate directed that he should thrust it 1 aito ito the open java jaws of the bear then christie forced back with all his ebbing strength ills ef fort was with the coming of death to the bear ita itts jaws relaxed and christie huk halt fall half halt crawled away hia ills two cheeks were torn from the ears to the mouth he had a double fracture of the skull his cheek bonea bones were broken and his jaw fell against his breast hie ills scalp was cut through bis his abundant hair ills HI lower jawbone also was fractured and hia his right 10 the brush waa was too thick for the man arm broken bight light or ten cut cuts on the body counted as minor incidents the blood poured from christies wounds in streams lie ila swathed him self in a sack ana emely made his hi nay ay home without bit bli snowshoes fol lowing the fee e on fie me riser As f is hz could not see there were eight inches of snow on the ground the journey was seven miles and with every foot of the journey marked by his blood christie tramped with courage all tte way he bad had to use one band hand to hid up uv his jaw he ile hoped on arrival it st the cabin to find his partner george crisfield Cri Beld at home but crisfield was out on a line ci of traps and did not return for and the desperately wounded man had to build A fire tire and attend to bis his own injuries aa as bet best be he could on crisfield a return every crude means was wa taken to maxe make christie Christi at comfortable but they bad neither medicine nor antiseptics after giving the victim uch such rest ar a 1 could be afforded crisfield packed hlo him on a rough toboggan and hired to la in dian to haul baul the patient to J E K for ralle rill a trading pott post christie and crie cris fleir wee vee we ve e at abe time on rogue river SO s from dawson they took a teat tent and camped at nights it waa was a racking trip for the injured man marl |