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plundered because these persons were
trusted on the recommendation of a gen-
tleman who ought to have known better.

At Tar Creek the correspondent was told
that the Stone Corral bear, a somewhat
noted grizzly that had killed his man, had
been recently on Squaw Flat, and had
prowled about an old cabin at night, sort-
ing over the garbage heap and pile of tin
cans at the door, but when the expedition
passed the cabin no fresh sign was found,
and the tracks on Squaw Flat were at least
a week old.

The first camp was in a clump of chinca-
pin brush at Stone Corral. There were
bear tracks in the soft ground at the edge
of the creek, which induced the hunters
to spend two days in prospecting that part
of the country. One of the proposed plans
for capturing the bear was to run him out
of the rocks and brush to some reasonably
open bit of country like Squaw Flat or one
of the small level patches near camp and