Show wood chopper swings club to kill bear walla walla wash UP known only as john and a recent arrival from his native land a giant swedish woodcutter evi evidently valued his lunch more than his life cutting wood in the blue mountains 50 miles from here john was vigorously attacking a huge log when he glanced around and saw a brown bear making short work of his lunch john pivoted and crashed his axe across the bears thick skull the axe handle snapped the bear retreated growling changed its mind and started for the big woodsman the woodcutter grabbed a stick of wood and each time the bear lunged he brought the club across the animals head he finally delivered a fatal blow clair egleson range rider witnessed the fight but was unable to assist because of a balky horse egleston asked the swede why he give ground when the bear charged and got the reply first I 1 start to run then i 1 say john you work five hours today you earn lunch so I 1 stay and fight john has the skin of the bear as proof of the battle |