“In the Sierra Madre, in Touloumne Canyon, in Siskiyou County and probably in many other mountain districts.”
“That may be so, but nobody can find them. Now, do you think you could find them?”
“I think I could if I should try.”
“Would you undertake to get a genuine grizzly in this State?”
“Yes, if you want one. How will you have him—dead or alive?”
“Alive.”
This conversation was held last May between the proprietor of the Examiner and special reporter Allen Kelly.
A week ago Kelly brought home an enormous grizzly bear, lodged the animal temporarily in one of the cages in Woodward’s Gardens and reported to the editor that he had finished that assignment.
The following is his account of the hunt and capture.