Bear Hunting In The Mogollons

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Bear Hunting In The Mogollons Bear and mountain lion have wrought de- struction among the cattle and horse herds in the Mogollon mountains and ranches adjacent this fall. Mr. Isaac Siggins has suffered severe losses. In conversation with Mr. Thos. Halloway recently, he offered Mr. H. a bounty of $5 per head for each and every grown bear he would kill in his grazing territory, and $2.50 for each cub scalp. The offer was accepted, and on Sep- tember 1st, Mr. Halloway, accompanied by Mr. Robert Winkler, left Sacaton canon for the hunting grounds in the vicinity of Mr. Siggins’ place. Skirting the foothills to the box of Big Dry creek, about seven miles above Siggins’, they discovered bear sign. Halloway, after ty- ing his old “Jack” dog, went to reconnoiter. It took but a glance to see that the tracks were fresh. The dogs were let loose and a break was made up among the rock for the game. The chase was so exciting that Winkler declared Halloway rode over saplings so large that they raised his horse bodily from the ground — in his (Halloway’s) own words, he went to him, (the bear) “all spraddled out.” Halloway, assisted by Shep, the dog, killed the animal in a short time.