Brown Bear Seen
For First Time On
St. Lawrence Is.
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The following is an article taken
from the November 1934, issue of the
"Journal of Mammalogy".
According to reports from natives
of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and
to all written records, only polar
bears have been seen on the island
in the past. On August 9, 1933, Rol
and Snodgrass, member of the Al
. ka College-Bering Sea Expedition
: '.d his two native guides report
I :\ ing seen a brown bear near Cape
Bunnell (West Cape), St. Lawrence
B 'and. The following excerpt from
Mr. Snodgrass’ note book describes
Die circumstances.
“We had followed the high cliff
from Boxer Bay to Cape Bunnell,
where the cliff is broken by a valley
ki wn by the Eskimos as Kongkok.
The "sides were very steep, and the
aneroid showed slightly over 1,500
feet as we started to descend. About
200 feet below the rim, Akeya called
my attention to a bunch of brown
moss about 50 yards away. I handed
him the glasses, remarking that it
looked like brown bear cubs. He re
turned them with the announcement
that it was a brown bear. He added
that it was the first he had ever seen
and that summer bears were very
dangerous. Our firearms consisted
of a .22 calbire rifle and a .38 calibre
revolver Despite the inadequacy of
the guns, I decided to attempt to
kill the bear as there seemed to be
no great risk involved. A strong
wind was blowing up the slope. The
bear was asleep at the foot of a very
steep, narrow ridge of rock which
seemed to offer a safe position.
“I told the guides my plan. We
started back up the cliff intending
to cross the ridge and come down
over the bear. When I turned and
started across, the boys kept on climb
ing, taking with them incidentally,
the rifle upon which I relied for ac
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curate shooting. The wind made
further communication impossible so
I let them go I came down the
ridge to a position as close as pos
sible to the bear, and took two pic
tures with the Leica camera. The
built-in range finder showed fifty
five feet Then I shot, aiming for
the neck. It was a miss and the
wind prevented the noise from wak
ing the animal. The second shot
hit the body. The gun failed to fire
the next three times I pulled the
trigger and the bear started away. I
shot ten times as he ran, possibly hit
ting him in the leu shoulder
“The color was light brown. Judg
ing from other bears, I should guess
its weight to be in the neighbor
hood of a thousand pounds. I do
not know the sex, and cannot guess
.the age.”
During the winter, polar bears are
numerous on the island, coming and
going with the ice. It is not Un
usual for polar bears to be strand
ed when the ice recedes northward
in the spring, and to live over the
| summer months among the snow
banks in the higher mountains and
; along the perpetual snow-banks (An
eegulgit) in the interior. This sug
gests the probability that the bear
was carried from Siberia, which is
only 37 miles away at Cape Chibuk
ak, by the ice during the winter 01
early spring.— Otto William Geist,
Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines, College, Alaska.
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Death Stalks The
Circus On Tragic j
Friday The 13thj
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Adolphe Menjou, who created the '
role of Thatcher Colt in Columbia’s
“The Night Club Lady,” returns to
the screen of the Dream Theatre
Sunday, Jan. 27th, in the second of
the Anthony Abbot murder myster
ies, “The Circus Queen Murder,”
with Greta Nissen in the role of the
ill-fated performer.
The character Thatcher Colt is a
New York Police Commissioner,
wealthy, distinguished-looking, of
fine family background and at the
same time a practical, hard-headed
police executive. There is nothing
supercilious about Colt as there was,
for example, in the Philo Vance
characterization brought to the
screen so entertainingly by William
Powell in a series of pictures. Vance
and his screen prototypes, Powell
and Vasil Rathbone in one film and
Walter Huston in another—solved
baffling mysteries by the uncanny
process of induction. Colt, on the
contrary, solves his perplexing pro
blems by what he terms “Common
sense,” plus intelligent police met
hods.
The crime confronting Colt in “The
Circus Queen Murder,” is the care
fully conceived killing of a lovely
woman aerialist with a traveling
circus, who meets her death before
the very eyes of thousands of spec
tators as she goes through her peril
ous routine high up in the “big top.”
No sound! No wound Who killed
her? Her jealous, half-crazed hus
band? Her Lover? Any one of 13
persons might have done it Ho^p
Colt eliminates one suspect after
another, finally tracking down the
real culprit makes sure-fire film en
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