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Show STRENGTH OF THE GRIZZLY Qlant of Far West Carries Cow Easily-Over Easily-Over Mountain, Without Resting. It Is rslatsd that a grltxly bear that hid one of Ita forepaws so shot as to render It useless employed the other to drag its weight of 1.000 pounds up an Incline almost precipitous, a seem lngly impossible feat, the Fur News states . A Callfornlan asserts thv Hii n the mountalps he observe a big; --Is- ' sly la the act of carrying a d ad row home to her cubs. Fror, bis position on the mountainside the Callfqrnlan could follow every movement of the bear in the sparsely timbered valley below. He contends that the big beast carried the cow In ber forepawa for a distance of three miles, across jagged rocka several . feet In height, over fallen logs around the rocky mountainside, moun-tainside, where en a mule could wot " get a foothold, to a narrow trail up-- -the atesp mountain. This bear. It appears, stopued not a moment for rest, but proceeded straight on. The observer followed her and about half a mile from her lair shot her. The cow, it Is reported, weighed at least 1,200 pounds, while the weight of the grfsily was about 4 50. |