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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. 



