Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — It Wasn’t a Cow. [ARTICLE]

It Wasn’t a Cow.

Saginaw Cornier. Joseph Willett was out in a boat on the Sheboygaining Creek last Sunday, and saw at some distance away an animal in the water, which he took for a cow, but on rowing up to it, discovered that it was a large bear. He made a pass at bruin with a pike pole, but the wary animal warded off the thrust with a blow that broke the pole, and commenced climbing into the boat WiUet fortunately had an ax with him and succeeded in dispatching the brute and yesterday it was brought to town! It weighed 300 pounds.