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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

KILLED FOR A BEAR.

   An unfortunate mistake that was attended with fatal results happened near La
Porte on the seventeenth of September, 1871. Walter Harkness and Asa S. Harvill
started out bee-hunting, and in the search for honey soon became separated in
the woods. Harvill, noticing indications of the honey-makers in a tree, climbed
it for examination, and while perched high up in the branches, Harkness, his
partner, quietly approached. Noticing something stirring the limbs, he concluded
it was a cub bear, the dense foliage preventing a clear view. Under this
impression, he leveled his gun and fired. Immediately Harvill's hat fell to the
ground, and the horrified man discovered his mistake upon reaching the tree. The
poor man was dead. An inquest was held the same day, and the coroner's jury
declared that "Harvill came to his death by the accidental shot of Walter
Harkness."


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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