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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. 



