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Show ! ' A FEMALE BEAK-SLATER. i . A Boulder Valley Woman Shown Her Montana Training. -Mrs. Sarah Ella Davidson, of Boulder Valley,, Montana, is a little black-eyed woman with a tender heart and the courage cour-age of a lioness. Last Friday, says the Sentinel, of Boulder, while Mr. Davidson was away from home, Mrs. Davidson and her little 3-year-old daughter were in the garden, about thirty yards from the house, gathering potatoes, when the child exclaimed to her mother: "There's a bear, "mother, go and get the gun. The mother looked up and discovered three bears coming. She took the little one by the arm and led her to the house, and taking down an old trusty Sharp a rifle, "started out for bear." The dogs in the meantime had chased two of them away, but the third one ran into a thicket about thirty yards from where she had stood at the time she discovered them. She walked within fifteen steps of the thicket, and kneeling npon one knee, waited several moments for Bruin to make his appearance, in order that she might seal his death warrant. The dogs soon chased him out, not, however, until he had slapped them right and left several times. As soon as the bear came to the edge of the thicket he stood erect, with outstretched arms. While he was in that attitude she gently raised her rifle, and without even a particle par-ticle of fear, shot him through the heart. She waited only a moment for it to rise, and the bear showing no signs of life, she went directly up to it, took it by the hind leg, and, with the assistance of the dogs, soon had it at the house, and in less than thirty minutes the hide was hanging upon , a peg. This is said to be the first bear j killed by a woman in this Territory; She was asked if she felt any fear at the time and she said: "I only had one" idea in my mind at the time and that was the bounty money, as I just needed $7.50 to finish paying for my sewing machine." The hide was sent to Boulder, the bounty money received and the last payment on that sewing machine has been made. |
