CATTLE A MENACE ARE FORCED TO LEE FROM WILD ANIMALS ure from capture the brutes loam oam forests of idaho and ap are much feared by prospector prospectors n and timber cruisers lining ining prospectors pros and timber asera sera returning to spokane Si okane from headwaters of at bis big creek in the ur d abenes panhandle ot of north idaho report that several large ids ds ot at long horned harped wild cattle are ming over the heavily timbered ils ds between the tsin lakes and the ids ds of the st joe and anti st regia regis ere ers they have forced numerous to beat undignified reits ts and instances are related brein sportsmen hare have bought sought the lter iter of at trees trem remaining there for irs urs until the animals left for water ater I 1 I 1 food lost of the territory south of at the es where the cattle m were ere see seen la in largest numbers has never been net nitrated rated by a white man no trails ve re been cut through the r has even the blaze at 0 the timber iser been mlle mo le upon the barks of virgin foresta forests A few prospectors ched the lake and camped 4 short ie but were forced aa aw a before any could be made of the ne district n the north bank of the largest the two lakes there Is a marked e where years ago five prospectors aped their toilsome way and find gold quartz scattered on the und madea location covering the all stream outlet of at the lakes and a taking in parts of an ge go near the lake shore campfire amp lre places and a few tin cans ark rk the spot where these men raped who they were or what their sequent movements move monta has ne never er been med as the small scrap scraps of paper ind und sear near the spot which had been air lr location contained no marks or me by which to identity them that they did not return to the lake evident as no work was as ever per arned upon their location nor were y maix issue a to babow that they retried around these lakes and near Is s spot the many tracks of 0 cattle it at attracted the attention of the few inspectors to later gain an entrance to the district the general was beat down by hoots hoofs of cattle the lake used for the watering resort and t far away was found a salt lick here acre the herds went at intervals fred wred sears bears of at spokane and his other J scars seirs of coeur d dalene alene iho aho were owners of a wholesale eat at business at wardner idaho tear tour ars ago J seara bears as purchasing ent for mhd firm as in montana ost st of at the time and thence be he shipped many cattle in car load lota lots alch when not killed bar at nice nce vere were eitl ettl er herded in the grassy 1 I 1 lea e near the slaughtering bouses houses or r corralled twenty of the animals not being needed in the storage aare given the freedom of tho the wide walleye running up ip big creek from its confluence with he the rivers the herd waa was in the care of t 9 everal aeral experienced cowboys but wl aben en the round up came and the ant nals mals were ere beadel for the corrals some ot of the wild waldir r ones fresh from he the ranges of contala Mon taia tala stampeded and roke broke along the creel faster than the bard hard riding cowboys could travel on 4 wild cattle evade cowboys their bronchus bron chos six ani animals malit escaped at that time after putting the remainder of the herd in the pens the loat lost cattle were trailed tor for miles through the brush and over the moun talus until the drivers almost lost them themselves sely in the wild regions of upper dig big creek the search was abandoned and tor for several months the sears brothers of liberal rewards several par ties were close to the prizes but each time the cattle managed to escape getting farther into the mountain mountains they finally became so wary and anti wild that approach in any manor maner was impossible and the hunting trips tor for them were given up ou u despair krom that beginning the cattle havo have increased until their cumbers are now unknown and their wildness cannot be compared to any other creatures of the woods they have taken refuge tar far back in the recesses of the wooded hills ind there for years they are in position to defy the band hand of man