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Show Celebrated Hunter Dead Huston's Amazing Record Special to The Tr bune CHEYENNE, Wo Dec 6 A. H Huston 6 jears of age a pioneer ranchman of the Saratoga valley of Wyoming w ho d ed several das ago at Santa Monica Cat probab was the mighuest hunter the west las known It Is est mated from fragmentary records of h s performances that he Killed WO bear 2000 buffalo 100 mountain lions 200 mountain sheep hundreds of antelope elk and deer and a relatively mmense number of wolves w ldcats eeyotes and other -armints No -nan eer saw h m m ss a shot and old Jim Baker the fa mous frontiersman Jim Slade the notori ous outlaw and other front er characters said that he was the moBt unerring markaman and the qu ckeat man with a gun they ever had seen Huston was bom in 1S40 at Fulton Mo When 1 ears of aga he came west with a m I tary exped tlon His ezpertnesa with a rifle soon caused him to be em plowed b tht go ernment as a meat hunter his dutv being to kill buffalo and othr game for soldiers Indian Fighter, Too Later he was emploed in the same gapacit b operators of the o erland stage route between Denver and Salt Lake, having headquarters at Virginia Dale His territory la between Virginia Dale and Bitter Creek and In this section he killed an amazing quantttv of ganu? inclde tall becoming acquainted with Baker Slade and other famous frontier character who marveled at his expertnea with the rifle He had man brushes with Tnd ans but the tribes q ickly learned that to get within range of his gi n was sure death and his repu ation enab ed him to operate with impunit and lm m nit at mps when it was death for an) other white man to lea e th settle ments He bocame ery friendly with the Cheyennes and one of his exploits Is a tradition w th members of that tribe Exploit a Tradition He was h nttng mountain sheer t Is said with a young Cheyenne buck A mountain Hon also wait stalking the same band and the two men ame upon the lion from behind anj unobser ed Ther were within ten ya Ss of the lion when the observed its hind quarters and tail projecting from a lump of bn sh The , animals position was not fa orable for a shot so Huston made a proposal to the j Indian , , . , I Yo sneak up and p his all said I he and when he t rns 1 1 plug h m The Ind an s response was to sneak awa In th brush not toward the ion b t ba k to a np whe e he reported to t othe Indians of their par that i Hust n ad gone craz and p obah had ben k 1 ed b he on The Ind ans has enM to h s en and o h amazement fo nd H ston k nn ng he on wh a , It le d stan c e ond ay th tar asses of j three mountain shep wh ch he had k ed as the leaped up on hearing his shot at t e on I hollered at him and got him when he turned around explained Huston and then got the sheep Thereafter the Clejennes held h m n the highest steem and e ne er was no leated while hunting In heir er to One of Huston s famous explo s wae he killing of fl e bear with ft e sho s f ed as rapidly as he could work an old fash ioned VI incl eter He was gu d ng a English earl on a hunt and the had killed an elk and left the carcass o a tract giizslles Just at sundown f e bear stalked into lew marching s ng e file. Shoot cried Huston to the earl who had developed a lolent case of bu k fe er His lordship did his best but the one shot he was able to fire went wl d As he fumbled excitedly with the median 1am of his gun fl e shots rang out In rapid sue esslon and the five bear fell each stu th ough the heart So certain was Hus ton of his aim that he d d not trouble o reload his gun before walking o er to n spe t the kil It was 5000 pounds of bea meat the largest animal weighing 1S(H pounds and the smallest TOO pounds Al were grizz les That year It Is said Hus ton killed fort bear After the 'Lnion Pacific waa built and meat h n ers no longer were I demand H ston began guiding parties of eastern and foreign hunters. He led the Lord Gar and parir through Yellowstone park In 18 6 One of his clients was Frank Coop er of London who It said has a hall 40x100 feet In d mansions which fs com pletety carpeted with skins of bear which he and Huston killed In ID 9 Huston located a ranch In the Saratoga val e and there lived until he went to Cal fornta a few years before his death He frequently returned to W omlng to engage In hunts |