Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1914 — CAPTURE BEAR WITH LARIAT [ARTICLE]

CAPTURE BEAR WITH LARIAT

Two Spokane Men Bring Bruin 150 Miles to Town in an Automobile. Spokane, Wash. —Capturing a 100pound black bear with a lariat and bringing the animal alive a distance of 150 miles in an automobile was the feat performed by G. E. Riegel. manager of a Spokane taxicab company, and Bert Sparrow. The two men were hunting near Leavenworth, in central Washington, and their dogs treed the bear. Riegel prepared td shoot bruin, but agreed to permit Sparrow to try to capture the animal alive. While Sparrow went to camp for a rope, Riegel and the dogs kept the bear in the tree. Climbing a tree near the bear’s retreat, Sparrow succeeded in throwing a noose over the bear's head. After that it was an easy matter to choke bruin into insensibility and pack him out to the automobile. The bear refused to eat for several days, but hunger finally throttled his pride.