Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Killing a Bear in Klondike. [ARTICLE]

Killing a Bear in Klondike.

We heard the brushwood crackling before passage of some heavy animal, and without a word we leveled onr Weapons and waited, says Blackwood's. We saw advancing toward us an enormous bear, whose great eyes gleamed savagely in the pale light as he came neat. Now he was within twenty yards of where we stood, and as his huge forelegs pawed the air clumsily in his endeavor to climb over a fallen tree, his white breast was fully exposed in the moonlight. “Let him have the buckshot, Stewart.” I whispered, and the report of his gun reverberated through the wooded slopes. This was followed by a savage roar from the bear, and, stepping clear of the smoke, I could see Bruin, the blood streaming from his head and his great tongue lolling out. staggering wildly forward. “His head has been too tough. Stewart; I’ll need to spoil him after all,” I said, regretfully, and I pulled the trigger of my rifle ami sent a soft point bullet right into the great yawning mouth, scarce a dozen yards away. The sharp crack of my rifle .was followed by no smoke, and I threw the lever open and was ready for another shot, but it was unnecessary, the great bear lay <lead on the snow, fast staining its white surface with his blood. We wept forward to examine him. and found that two of Stewart’s pellets had penetrated his eyes, while the rest had little effect on his’ sloping forehead. My bullet had entered his mouth and a large hole in the back of the skull showed where that deadly “dtmi-dum” had made its exit.