Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — BEAR HUNT IN JAPAN. [ARTICLE]

BEAR HUNT IN JAPAN.

Battle with Bruin Resulted in the Death es a Hunter. It happened on the 18th ult, shortly before sunset, that some' surveyors accompanied by laborers were stilf surveying a field at Uyenal In Esashl-gun, Hokkaido. While engaged In this work, says the Hakkaido correspondent of the Japan Advertiser, a bear made Its appearance from a cave near by, and, ambling threateningly toward the party, sprang upon one of the workmen who was In the act of running .away. The man escaped with lacerated arm and the bear was left victor, the field being cleared of its human occupants in a remarkably brief space of -time. The incident came to the knowledge of some local Nlmrods and some days later Bruin was tracked to his lair. One of the gallant hunters fired, but there was something wrong with , his gun. Unfortunately It went off In a rather irregular way, the gun being rusty and the powder damp. All these things, however, only served to enrage Bruin, which attacked his enemies. The other hunters took the opportunity when the bear’s attention was centered upon his companion and fired his gun, but thls-weapon, too, was useless. The bear apparently now had both men at his mercy and in a short time they were lying seemingly lifeless and mangled on the ground. A passing mall car carried the vanquished hunters to the nearest village where one of the men seems to be on the way to recovery wrder treatment, but the other died of his wounds.