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ing out a whole side of the pen, feeds his
fill on the inmates.

One of the interior counties kept a stand-
ing reward for the capture of an old grizzly
of this character for several years. But
he defied everything and he escaped every-
thing but old age. Some hunters finally
crept in to where the old king lay, nearly
blind and dying of old age, and dispatched
him with a volley from several Winches-
ter rifles. It was found that he was almost
toothless, his paws had been terribly mu-
tilated by numerous steel traps, and it is
said that his kingly old carcass had re-
ceived nearly lead enough to sink a small
ship. There were no means of ascertain-
ing his exact weight, but it was claimed
that skin, bone and bullets, as he was
found, he would have weighed well nigh
a ton.