Northwest History. Alaska 7. Accidents, United States

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: shooting; mad bear; Ketchikan; Alaska; George Walker; Texas; Wesley Myers; medical aid; Ketchikan guide; hunt; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Myers; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/87835

Quick Shooting Stops Mad Bear. QUICK SHOOTING STOPS MAD BEAR KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 16. (/P) —An enraged male brown bear, rushing to aid its wounded mate, caused George Walker of Texas to fire his gun so fast Sunday in an effort to stop it that he temporarily deafened Wesley Myers, Ketchikan guide....