Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — BOY IS GREAT HUNTER [ARTICLE]

BOY IS GREAT HUNTER

Fifteen-Year-Old Oregon Youth Hold* Record of State. Blenn A. Brooks, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brooks of Swiss Home, in the Siuslaw country, in Oregon, claims to be champion bear hunter for his age In that part of the country. His record so far has, perhaps, not been equaled in any part of the state by any lad as young as he. On August 12 of this year Blenn killed a big bear with one shot, bringing it out of a tree Where it was feeding on berries, and on September 12 he killed another in a neighbor’s of l chard, bringing It down out of a fruit tree .with two shots. But the most exciting encounter he has yet had was on November 26, when he and his two older brothers were out hunting in the mountains not far from home. While going through a big patch of fem the J>oy saw tracks of a bear leading to a hollow tree. When he and his dog neared the tree Bruin came out and with one slap of its paw sent the dog whirling into the air and then climbed a tree. The boy hunter knocked it out with one shot, whereupon the bear showed fight Blenn- coolly pumped two more doses of lead into the advancing beast and finished it.