Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-17 | Page 1 | Sheep Herder Rushed by Big Female Bear near Ogden

SHEEP HERDER RUSHED BY BIG BIGI I FEMALE BEA BEAR R RNEAR NEAR 0 OGDEN GO E N Animal Attacks After Two 1 Cubs Arc Are Killed Near Camp SHEEP DEVOURED Federal Trapper Says Predatory Beasts Are M Multiplying ul ti plying A tight that th occurred Sunday between a mother bear defend defend- defendIng defending defending ing her two to cubs and a sheep sheep- sheepherder sheep herder herder harder protecting his flocks wu wag described by Federa Federal Trapper John M I Grow or ot of Huntsville this morning Mr Grow said Bears flears have ha been doing great damage among the sheep In the vicinity of the headwaters of ot North Fork on the east enet slope of ot Ben lIen Lomond and eIght have o now been killed John Butterfield a sheep owner from Southern Utah has two herds In this section totalling about HOO animals Recently sheep and lambs have hav been killed and eaten and some time ago George Holman chief predatory animal Inspector for the United States BIological survey and my- my myself self went up there to dispose ot of marauders OUR FOUR C Because of ot the th thick maple brush we were sere ere unable to catch Ight of ot the bears although we there two days doys Traps were then set and aud four lour bears Believing that since wild lid berries were ripening bears would leave lea the sheep lone we turned our attention to ther sections but the tho continued and It was as to go so after alter them agaIn DEAn I IN Yesterday Monday I went sack ock to the camp and had a arge bear In one ono trill trap and an- an an had a trap and got gothe gotho ho he bait bajt but did not spring the rap This made mad a total of o five ears but when I 1 reached the camp I 1 learned from the that he bad had killed three unda The herder Is a 0 an ao an but but a citizen ot of o the United tates from New Mexico Sunday hearing a 11 noise In th lock he went out with his rifle LOd found his dogs does had treed two but but were beIng held at ba bay V IY the mother bear He lie shot the tho w wd In the tree but one was so nuch larger than the other that 10 thought he lie had hart killed the old me ne and one ono cub and while look look- ng them over the old she bear rushed him With scarcely time timo to jump out It f th tho way the herder fired and he furious animal dropped dead en cn feet from him BEAnS DE MULTIPLY A wildcat was as recently aught In one ono ot of my traps there nd It pulled the trap up and It Into the brush where he be herders herder's dogs docs found it Mr 1111 Grow said that boars bears arc are from May 1 until Sep Sep- Sep 1 but that the th state laws those doing damage to too o e killed He lIe attributes their Increase to the of national parks game and ad tho the closed season