Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1915 — 500-Pound Bear in Fight. [ARTICLE]

500-Pound Bear in Fight.

La Grande; Ore. —Twenty bullet holes were bored into the body of a 500-pound bear, Ulled on Beaver tereek, near the La Grande water supply, according to word brought here. The bear, of unusual size, has been a menace to sheepmen, and a band of stockmen organized to kill it When cornered the bear gave battle -and tt . took 20 bullets to kill it. ■ ■ ’