ALASKA BEARS
EVER READY
' FOR ATTACK
Charles Remington of Montana
writes the following interesting com
munication on “Bad Records of Alas
ka Bears” to Outdoor Life:
While being in favor of a reason
able bill for the protection of bears,
there are many unreasonable state
ments made in regard to the habits
of bears in Alaska, some of which I
shall attempt to correct. For prof
of my statements here made I will
ask Charles Sheldon, the editor of
Outdoor Life and others to investi
gate the past history of the ’98ers
in the Copper River country of Alas
ka and their experiences with the
bears of that country. For proof of
the following incidents that occurred
in my vicinity, where I spent nineteen
months prospecting, etc., and where
since I spent six years without leav
ing the Copper River district, I will
refer you to Dr. Harry Cockerill, yet
a practicing dentist at Valdez; George
Cantwell, ex-government photogra
pher, Valdez; Addison M. Powell,
government surveyor who ran the
base lines in the Copper River and
Mount Wrangell district in 1899; Dr.
Townsend and Dr. Ottawa; my broth
er, Colonel Millard, manager of the
Cliff mine at Valdez; “Red” Ellis,
its discoverer, and many others, all
of Valdez at that time, and most of
those mentioned except Drs. Town
send and Ottawa and Addison M.
Powell now residents of Valdez.
“First, in the summer of 1898, at
foot of Klutina lake, during July sal
mon run, near my camp, a young man
without smell of powder or steel on
him, crossed at foot of Klutena lake,
about seventy miles north of Valdez,
to catch or gaff some salmon on Sal
mon creek. He parted the bushes
—scene: Old he cinnamon surround
ed by salmon of various conditions.
Rear made first swipe at young man,
tearing and pulling scalp over his
eyes, stunning him* When he came
to he lay still with presence of mind,
but the bear crunched his jaw, which
he broke* in five places. After the
bear left the young man crawled to
his boat with scalp hanging flipper
flopper, and weak from loss of blood,
raised the sail which helped him, or
he never would have lived to prove
these facts, and sailed across the
lower end of Klutena lake, which is
narrow at this end of it, and dropped
in a dead faint as ready hands
grabbed him and the boat which
landed in front of the temporary
camp of about two or thre hundred
98ers. Camp was then called Klu
ietia City. Dr. Ottawa and Dr.
Townsend plastered his jaw with
blue cloy and fixed him up and said
he would lose the use of it as it
was broken in five places and man}
pieces had to be taken out.
“Second i This snme season o
1898 on same main trail on left bank
of Klutena lake going down and op
posite my camp and my brother s
camp, also with this trail being tra\
eled by some one most every hour of
the day and some nights, two pros
pectors with packs came along.
Young cubs squalled in thicket un
seen—spruce thicket as thick as
some of our hemlock second growths
are in states. The bear umped the
trail,^knocking the front man down by
hitting his pack which saved him.
Rear man had shot gun, front man
rifle. Bear took after rear man.
Front man got in his work then with
rifle. Both men came out winner—
bear meat.
Third case: Fall of 1899. Jack
Miller and Schroeder, both for many
years after mine operators in Slate
, creek and Chistochina districts, trib
v utary to Copper river, were returning
to their camp on a then four-foot gov
ernment trail which the prospectors
were building for United States under
Lieutenant Babcock, U. S. A. Miller
and Schroeder had packs on their
backs and were dog tired. Miller saw
bear standing up in brush about 300
yards away. Bear had smelled them.
Miller was for getting her—Miller,
the then tenderfoot—and Schroeder,
the old-time prospector, says, ‘No, we
are too tired’; so they pounded along
toward camp. In a few minutes Mrs.
Bear jumped out on opposite side of
ravine or ditch close to them. Miller
said he did not expect to hit the side
of a barn, he was that wobbly, but
luck and the Good Man was with
him. Schroeder had a shot gun and
m did not dare to pepper with Miller in
'line. When examined, the bear, a
silvertip, had an old lead ball flat
tened out the size of a half dollar on
shoulder under skin that some Si
wash had placed there before climb
ing out or passing in his checks. Two
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large grown cubs in a few moments
after came whining out of brush, and
they were promptly bagged and I
helped eat some of their meat the
next day. As I came along with a
60-pound pack on my back they made
me stop and have a big feed of young
silvertip and also look at the hides.
This last happened about seventy
miles northeast of Valdez, then a
ment road of about sixteen feet. Ask
any old-timer and many young oi
newcomers, ‘Cheechakoes’ or ‘Hassa
ampers,’ if bears don’t still take a
hold of a man in any part of Alaska
or B. C. where bears are plentiful
The accounts of the bears of the
Iskut, B. C., ought to convince the
most skeptical that such cases as 1
mention are not rare. For proof
let them go right now and look upon
and question some of the natives on
the islands and main shore of British
Columbia, in the vicinity of Ketchi
kan, Fort Wrangell and near the
mouth of the Bellacoola rver, B. C.
and see numbers of natives that have
been chewed up while picking her
ries with no gun or smell of powder
or steel on them.
The bears of the Copper river and
Cook Inlet and man other large dis
tricts without a doubt all tight if ful]
grown, say seven years old and up
whether he or she, if you only sur
prise them; and this statement ap
plies to black as well as cinnamon
silvertip—Kodiak and blue glacier
bears. The cases I mentioned were
not half of what happened even ir
the Copper River valley and tribu
taries alone, as many cases I did not
hear of in detail might still be
brought to light and described. There
are no small bears in Alaska, after
they are about seven years old, ol
any color except the blue glacier
bear.
I hope you may see fit to make
these corrections for the benefit ol
an army of misinformed, the ex
perienced and inexperienced hunter,
historian, novel writer and nature
faker. I am still a standby of Bro.
J. A. McGuire and feel that he will
correct all errors intelligently as he
has in many cases of the past of
even noted writers rushing into print
with misinformation.
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well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
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Billiard Hall carries one of the
most complete stocks of Tobacco
and Cigars handled by any store
in Alaska?
We have special facilities for
storing tobacco to preserve its
strength and insure it reaching i
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here, moist and fragrant.
Standard Brands of
Cigars
including large sizes in the
Mozart, Lovera, Optimo, Up
mann, Roi-Tan and La Prefer
entia.
2 for 25c
$6.00 per box of 50
Popular brands of Smoking To
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3 for 50c
$2.00 per dozen
We carry a full line of Pipes,
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:§ | In Queen Elizabeth’s time the practice of
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are carefully placed in
a roomy washer, which 0
in appearance resem
bles a bass drum about
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j Have your family
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ter way. Telephone
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Tacoma’s Expert Furreir
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Phone 90
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Seattle, Wash.
J. A. FARNHAM and E. TAYLOR, Proprietors.
Headquarters for Alaskans
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Watchmaker and Jeweler
Watch Repairing Phone 223
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