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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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HELD A BLACK BEAR. 
The following extraordinary story, which 
came from Grand Forks. B. C, appeared in the 
Edmonton Bulletin of March 19, and is cer¬ 
tainly worth reprinting: 
"Such a display of physical strength as was 
witnessed recently at Toulou Mountain, near 
Orient, Wash., on the Great Northern Railway, 
when Louis Dubois, a giant Frenchman, in a 
life and death combat completely overcame an 
immense black bear, is as yet without parallel 
in this district. According to the report that 
has reached here Dubois and a young Scotch¬ 
man named Alex. Campbell, were out cutting 
cordwood when they came upon a bear’s den, 
and seeing what they supposed was the bear s 
nose projecting, the big Frenchman after some 
deliberation struck a savage blow at the sup¬ 
posed bear’s nose with his keen axe blade. As 
soon as the blow was struck, underbrush and 
snow was flying in all directions and the two 
woodsmen now perceived that what they had 
mistaken for the snout was in reality the bear's 
feet which the axe had completely cut off. 
“By this time the bear had made a savage 
attack on the two men. Campbell, the smaller 
of the two men, succeeded in getting out of 
reach, but the Frenchman, somewhat conceited 
over his personal strength, preferred a personal 
encounter with the bear to running. Dubois 
raised his heavy double bitted axe to strike the 
bear, but in the twinkling of an eye the bear 
had raised his forepaw, which was uninjured 
and threw the axe to one side, and the next in¬ 
stant the bear had Dubois in his embrace. 
“It was now a struggle for life between the 
man and the bear. The man being an adept at 
wrestling succeeded in tripping his antagonist, 
the bear falling heavily to the ground with 
Dubois on top of him. In this position the 
Frenchman actually pinned the bear to the 
ground, holding his legs apart and clutching nini 
firmly at the throat. By this time both man and 
bear were literally covered with blood from the 
bear’s wounded foot. At this juncture two other 
woodsmen came along and wanted to dispatch 
the bear with their axes, but under the direc- 
tions of the Frenchman they quietly opened an 
artery in the bear’s neck and let the animal 
slowly bleed to death in Dubois’ arms. When 
the men all returned to camp and Louis Dubois 
was thoroughly washed it was ascertained that 
he had not even received a scratch. Louis 
Dubois, the hero of this encounter, weighs 240 
pounds, and is six feet three inches tall and 
twenty-eight years of age. He hails from the 
lumber camps on the Ottawa River. The beai 
which made this savage attack is claimed to have 
weighed over 500 pounds.” 
A BIG BLACK BASS. 
N. H Williamson, of the cotton committee 
of the Board of Trade, of Little Rock, received 
recently what was proba,bly the largest and 
finest specimen of the black bass ever caught 
in Arkansas, and it is a question if its equal 
has ever been captured. 
The fish measured 30 inches in length, 22 
inches in circumference and weighed 13% 
pounds. Sportsmen say it is probably the largest 
specimen of this class of fish ever known, and 
it attracted lots of attention at the Board of 
Trade where it was on exhibition. _ 
The fish was caught by a youth, Joe Wilkins, 
in Miller’s Lake, near DeValls Bluff. 1 he suc¬ 
cessful Walton is only about sixteen years of 
age, and he landed the big bass with a hook and 
line. Particulars of the catch are meagre, the 
fish being shipped to Mr. Williamson on account 
of its monstrous size. 
A few who saw it doubted that it was a black 
bass, arguing that this fish never exceeds eight 
or nine pounds, but experienced fishermen de¬ 
clare that the fish exhibited by Mr. Williamson 
was a splendid specimen of the black bass. Mr. 
Williamson proposes to have it mounted, as it 
is believed to be the largest black bass ever 
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