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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 w r as 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 



