The Kusko Times

Dr. W. W. Council, accompanied by Mrs. Council and J. W. Gucker, recently returned to Cordova from Yakutaga beach with the pelts of nine black bears, one of which was killed with a bow and arrow. The doctor, who is an ardent sportsman, recently claimed he could kill a bear with an arrow and was laughed at by Cordova hunters. He took his bow and arrow along to prove it, and when he saw a black bear across a creek from him he brought it down with his first arrow, which severed the spinal cord, and the bear dropped as if shot with a bullet. One arrow went clear through the body of the bear, the second being so deeply embedded that it could not be pulled out. Clearings are necessary, says the doctor, in hunting with a bow and arrow. He claims the high power has nothing on a bow and arrow as a means of killing game.