Aug. 29, 1908.] 
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GRAINGER’S GOLD PAN. 
Tom Murphy, W. P. Grainger and Harry 
Jackson are Priest Lake prospectors. While 
up there the other day and all the other boys 
having left camp to prospect, these three started 
out, two with pick, shovel and goldpan, to pros¬ 
pect for placer in a gulch near by, and the 
other, Mr. Murphy, with a gun to try and kill 
some meat, as that article was getting scarce 
in camp. 
They traveled together for some little dis¬ 
tance, when the party separated, Mr. Murphy 
keeping up toward the head of the gulch and the 
other two going lower down. They had been 
separated long enough for Murphy to cross 
the gulch and get on the other side and only 
a few hundred yards above the others when he 
was startled by a loud drumming noise, which 
he couldn’t understand at the time, but which 
proved to be Grainger pounding on the gold- 
pan. Anyhow, Tom, naturally thinking it to be 
a call of some kind although a new one on him, 
started toward the noise. 
When about opposite the boys he saw Jackson 
up a tree hanging on to a limb for dear life, 
and making the most unearthly noise with his 
lungs possible, and Grainger going up another 
tree at a rate that would lead one to suppose 
he was no novice at the business. Tom, on 
seeing this peculiar performance, commenced 
to laugh, which it appears was not so thorough¬ 
ly enjoyed by the others, as they commenced to 
swear and wanted to know why he didn’t shoot. 
This brought the mirthful-di’sposed shootist to 
his senses, and standing on a rock from which 
he could look over a clump of brush, he saw the 
cause of the boys’ peculiar conduct. It was 
a grizzly bear and a vicious looking bear, too, 
for the dog had been running around and snap¬ 
ping at it for some time, which made the bear 
somewhat angry, for he would strike such ugly 
blows at the dog that the force of them would 
turn him clear around. While all this circus 
was going on between the dog and the bear 
the boys were hanging in the trees, taking turns 
and then together cursing Tom for not shoot¬ 
ing. Apparently an opportunity for a good shot 
presented itself, for he raised the gun to his 
shoulder, carefully took aim and as carefully 
lowered the gun again. Just to show how 
“cussed” a man can be, he innocently asked, 
“How much longer can you fellows hold on?” 
Tom then shot the bear, but not in a vital 
spot. The bear couldn’t see Tom and conse¬ 
quently didn’t know where the shot came from. 
He blazed away again, the ball striking home. 
On the second shot the bear saw where it came 
from and made a bee line for the place. He 
only made a few jumps, however, when he fell 
over, kicked a few times and died. The boys 
came from their uncomfortable positions, Tom 
j came over from across the gulch, they all 
' helped skin the bear and went back to camp. 
It appears that Mr. Grainger had heard some 
prospector tell about charming a bear by pound¬ 
ing on a goldpan. The prospector was out 
trying some diggings and had no shooting iron 
with him when he saw a bear making for him. 
Not knowing what else to do he commenced 
pounding on his pan. The bear first stopped, 
looked awhile, then turned around and went 
away. 
Grainger remembered the story when he saw 
the bear coming for them, and as neither of 
the boys had a gun, he said to Jackson, “Watch 
me charm him.” 
“Charm your mother-in-law,” said Jackson, 
“I’m going up a tree.” 
Grainger kept pounding away on the pan and 
the bear kept coming. When the bear got with¬ 
in an uncomfortably close distance, Grainger 
[ started for a tree. At the foot of the tree, how¬ 
ever, he made a last effort to charm the bear. 
Taking the pan and a stick, he called out to 
Jackson, “Now watch me charm him.” 
“You fool, you’d better get up that tree, or 
the bear’ll charm you,” was Jackson’s reply, 
whereupon Grainger started for the tree at the 
above-mentioned pace. 
Mr. Grainger has no faith in the bear-charm¬ 
ing proclivities of a gold pan. 
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