| Show A silvor tipped bear sir mr W F robbins of ospino pine river on tuesday brought into town a silver tipped bear which W weighed h C d when about three bun hundred pounds tho the bear being dead yo localos local of the record boldly examined him iio ile has bas observed that it is better to examine a bear while in that condition in prell preference to any other the brute wis inas killed on the 1st ast instant by sir mr it robbing single handed at one time according to his report it was a mooted question vliet whether lier he would come out first or second best when first seen cen by him the bear was about two li hundred and re d yards before him on the mountain side and in among thick underbrush the bear was moving around feeding taking deliberate aim mr R fired and hit him hini just in front of one shoulder the ball comin coming g out on the opposite side in tb the r rear r of the other ho then started to run sir mr robbins fired a again gain and as he be was running from froni him he hit him in the rump and then started in pursuit the underbrush being very dense lie could not easily calculate his whereabouts and in the eagerness of pursuit he unwittingly got too near and the bear saw him for the first time he at once raised on his hind feet and started in the direction of lib his assailant As he did so sir mr R coolly awaited his coming with his gun at a rest the latter was a magazine spencer which he had bad reloaded b by y this time feeling the importance of getting in a home shot when within about fifteen yards he turned loose the ball penetrating tho the breast of the animal even this did not stop himbur on he came propelled in a measure by tho the momentum of hia his own speed he came on so rapidly that robbing robbins did not have time tima even to work tho the lever to throw another cartridge into his gun n BO so as ho he came within reach fe he jammed ed the muzzle in the bears mouth the shock threw robbins to the ground aund I and the bear on top of him gut out the tho latter immediately rolled over dead at hia his bide side the last shot had bad finished him had it been otherwise sir mr robbing robbins would have bave hardly been able to tell th the story estory of his narrow escape the silver tipped bear is the most formidable of the bear kildun kin dun less it be the grizzly and some assert that it is even amorse foe to contend with it is equally savage and tenacious of life and ig is more ni nimble bleon on foot sir mr robbins bayt that m lie ile supposed this one to be a black I bear else ho lie would not have followed him bim durango col reo ree ord |
