Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1917 — TRAPPER LASSOES BIG BEAR [ARTICLE]

TRAPPER LASSOES BIG BEAR

Thousand-Pound Grizzly That Had Killed Many Cattle Captured In New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M.—A thousand-pound she grizzly bear was lassoed in the Santa Fe national forest by J. F. McMullen, trapper, of the United States biological survey. The animal was trailed down as she raced through the woods with a 45-pound trap and a sixfoot drag hanging to her feet McMullen tied the bear and sent a man to the Mountain View ranch to bring an audience of ranchers and tourists to see and photograph the brute before it was given the death shot The bear has killed many cattie recently. .■