Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Bear Caught In City. [ARTICLE]

Bear Caught In City.

A fat black bear, weighing nearly 400 pounds, was trapped and killed on the edge of the city limits near Cowen park, according to a dispatch from Seattle, and about one and a half miles from the university. The downfall of bruin was brought about by two unknown men, who sold the bear while it was In the trap to A. Lampaert, a butcher of Redmond, for S2O. According to the men who trapped the animal, It had established Its headquarters on the hill near the Cowen Park ravine, and had apparently decided to spend the winter there. The bear was in prime condition and had evidently found the back yards of Cowen Park residents fine foraging grounds.