Soldier-Sportsmen 
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swamps. According to some local au- 
thorities he comes down to the streams 
to eat the salmon killed and left only 
partly consumed the previous autumn. 
The snow has kept these in a fair state 
of preservation, and if a little ripe, 
from a hunting point of view, the bears 
are said to only enjoy them the more. 
N spring the Chilkoot garrison does 
its real bear hunting, for the hides 
are best at that time. Equipped with 
snow shoes (as is each man in the post) 
they travel over the snow which, up 
the river, is still too deep for com- 
fortable walking otherwise. Especi- 
ally if piloted by Gus Klaney, chief of 
the Frog Tribe of Tlingit Indians at 
Klukwan, and depending on the native 
guides in this vicinity, they can assure 
themselves they will “bring home the 
bacon.” 
Last spring one of the natives cap- 
tured alive a few-months-old brown 
bear. He sold the cub to Company “KE”, 
7th Infantry, who kept him as a pet 
chained up in back of their barracks. 
As the bear grew he kept breaking a 
series of chains, each heavier than the 
last; but he liked Company E’s chow 
and did not leave the vicinity, so each 
time he was recaptured by one of the 
corporals detailed to care for him. This 
man would put on heavy gloves and a 
canvas peajacket as protection from the 
cub’s claws and make a flying tackle. 
While he held him, another soldier 
would fasten on the collar and chain. 
Finally E Company realized that 
“Hutz”’ (as they called their pet, that 
being the native word for “brown 
bear’) was becoming unmanageable. 
Even Corporal Reinald Matheson’s ber- 
sark strength was not enough to hold 
him. They wondered whether they 
would have to kill him before he in- 
jured someone. Hutz himself solved 
the problem by breaking his collar one 
evening and, heeding the call of the 
wild, taking to a blueberry patch be- 
hind the guard house. There he eluded 
recapture for several days and finally 
disappeared. Perhaps he is on the 
upper river growing up to the size of 
Old Baldy—every bear country has its 
Old Baldy, you know—whose tracks I 
saw last fall at the junction of the 
Klehini and Chilkat rivers. 
I FOUND fish still bleeding from his 
great claws, but he was “too wise” 
—I didn’t glimpse him. His hind foot, 
as evidenced by his track, lacked but 
the breadth of my forefinger of being 
the length of my campaign hat. Back 
at the barracks afterward, I measured 
my hat and found the track must have 
been thirteen inches from claw to 
“heel.” The first track I saw was one 
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