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ies refreshed. When oout three miles distant on Little Dry Creek, /■inkier fired at a brown bear and broke his ack, but a terrific fight ensued before the brute ould be conquered. Mr. Siggins, being a man of his word, paid he bounty he had offered — $16 for the three calps. On September 25 Winkler killed a half- >reed silver tip, near Pine creek. Same day lalloway crossed over on Little Dry, where he lamped for the night. Out early next morning le found his dogs fighting a large cinnamon vithin three hundred yards of where he (H.) lad slept. After a running fight of about six lundred yards the bear climbed one of the largest pine trees on Dry creek. Halloway ap- proached the tree within thirty steps, and was aiming to fire, when he discovered that the front sight of his rifle was missing, but the very first shot brought him crushing through the branches dead to the ground. The largest bear killed during Mr. Halloway’s series of hunts was a cinnamon, shot on the 17th of October. Its hide measured twenty-eight square feet. The number of bear slaughtered by these two men from September 1st up to October 16th inclu- sive, nine.