November 28, 1907, Algona, Iowa
One of California's Big Bears Makes Raid in Ventura County.
From the Los Angeles Times
Last night a giant grizzly destroyed an entire apiary at the head of Matilija Canyon, four miles foot the famed Ortega Rancho, in Ventura county, gorging himself with honey, and went lumbering up the mountain side, leaving tracks fourteen inches long.
This morning the apiarist found crushed stands and masses of honey strewn about where his forty hives had stood, and was so frightened that he ran to Ortega's without a hat. Many hunters on horseback started on bruin's trail, but he has evaded them.
The scene of the depredation is not many miles from the place where Captain Allen Kelly laid hold of Monarch, the great beast now in Golden Gate park, in 1889, and, owing to the immense size of the
tracks, it is believed this may be the mate of the huge captive in, San Francisco.
It is generally believed that the California grizzly is almost extinct, and the appearance of this one where none had been heard of for many years will be a surprise to old hunters.
The last known physical specimen of a California grizzly was shot and killed in Fresno County in 1922
more information about Monarch here
thanks to Historical Honeybee
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