Bob Evans, accompanied by Messrs…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

through the head, frac- turing the skull through which the brains oozed. It occurs to us that there is something radi- cally wrong with the law, or its administration, where an apparent killer is allowed to go free, and two innocent witnesses are confined in a felon’s cell. Bob Evans, accompanied by Messrs. Fairon and Shoemaker, two young gentlemen from Illinois, went to the D Bar ranch on a hunting trip last week. They ran across an enormous black bear which they shot at, all three shots taking effect. The bear made a break at the boys and they made a break for tall timber. Bob climbing the only available tree in sight. The other gentlemen ran with bruin at their heels till he fell from loss of blood. Bob think- ing the bear powerless, proceeded to cut his throat when Bruin raised and struck him, knocking him clear over the ropes, but was unable to follow Bob to his corner and finish the fight. Bob brought in the hide which is as large and fine as any ever taken in the west. It is for sale at five thousand dollars, not a cent less. From Ihe December 4, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise Wm. Warfield in Cattle Breeding.