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Show A MIGHTY 1ICNTKK l)BA HE FOLLOWED THE TRAIL OF THE LAST PCNNSYLVANIA ELK. II 4 U th Jr1r I'rt ( ! Ulnur of IKnT-A lt't th I. Hull I'lk Track, la HI llli f llrl4 (iHirUii.n t.f l, Hlm.nh.l.fi. "Th nun who wai In nt the JontU of the Ua. ilk VIIII In 1 .inAyWrUiUai. a few JajTi njtu In Potter coauty," mU n former irM'Ui.Uuf that pirt of the Key itoue Bute. "Hi haute vr i Prtr-tncnuri Prtr-tncnuri auil he mtut lure bit n nlnvty -eiirii of hjo, lie m turn nearthoforki of the blnnHQiAhouinff, where hi fnthpr who enme from C )ntinclknt with hit family Uforo the ihweof thfiluttxn ttiry, wonoiieof the first MtUen. The ol 1 hnotpr jmt dea 1 wai the lwt of hU race, llqhiilfollviwfilthelffeofnhnnta AD1 trnpiyr until tlirws ymrn t70, when he became juttlally Win UmlwMfnrcttl to luniit tip hit rillA He hal live-1 tlorlng tho timi-e when ilk, woWin'livintheri, all of them tiuw eitltict, wire nuinrntn tn the I'enn) hanU womli, hii-1 he, prwb-bhly prwb-bhly inure than any of hUcoiitonipuriv lievtu wimiUmen, aiileJ In tringini: Hhout their extinction. , "For many yfHii he lnUteJ that he bad kllll the Iwt panther ever known to be In Ponnijlranf a. lint Jacob ln klry,f nu ol 1 Pike county hunter, 11 nail brotiKht kucIi eriilf nee to lKar that he and not Panuenter wai utltlM to that honor, that the latter acknovrlrJl lWnilcj-'a ilalm, Thnt he raa In the hunt, thunjr.ii, which rctultiHl In the kill Intf of the one lone elk that clnntto.. hAtlehilIanl rutm In tho Pin n-fvlraala n-fvlraala wlMl thf-ru U no doubt, al though the elk wai Mllol by nnuther iKTioii, fttJl an InJlm at tliat, TLUelk huntwaParmcntcri favorlto rrtnlola ce ocp, Aiuontf the hunilml of illrrinic ktorieiiof hit life In tho wovU that k wo4 nlwny- rw ly to relate, almoat up to thetlaycfhiailvath, OH TUB TRAIL ThU ilk hnnt octurml m Ute ai 1S0T, nUhunU It wan iiipptwetl that the Imtof theWaoitlraco iuPvuiDiylraitli had met it death twenty wire before. .Not any of thunmmals nor onysliax of the in had bnu aen tlnte ISO, when Htitli Nelxon, of Klk county, allot what wm dupiwrvxil to bo the lactone, And IU lmiutniHj Ik ad nndantlera for )vuri were r Xtilbltitl nt Pealea mtiwum. In PhlU delphta, ni thoM of the liwt Penwlvn-iiU Penwlvn-iiU ilk. In the full of 107 thu Mine 1 Sctli Nelaun and Ira Parmentvr were hunting ttlonjr tho lieilwattri of IlVn I uitt a crek. In Play Swamp, from vrhk'i w nUr Uowa on ono lde to tho aource of the biiMjiirhanna, an 1 from the other to the Allvtfliany feder. Tlit-y were on the trail of it deer, whin auddenly th. y hard I he 1-M.oliar uhUtlu a bull elk aoundu only At tlut tlmo of tho ) ear, tho whUllnWuift tho call for a nnte, Tho two hnntrr got thtir homuU on Hit elk'e trull and Mluwci U all d iy, wlurn a hfavy and 1 rolanid rainstorm laiue up an ltho trail waalont "The hunter roamed the wood for week try in ; to utrike the lost trail, bat did not uccl. Tho new that there won till) another elk left tn the Blnna-tnahontiiK Blnna-tnahontiiK woo-Ui tprrul throughout the region and clear to thu Indian uiwrvu tlone or the Kew York ati. Hue. Among thwe haa a hunter and trflU"-1, famou on tho Cut tarn utu reaervutton, known to the whltena Jim Jacob. On day lutUo latter part of Xovitnber IrA pArmenUr and HtthNelmmitAiti'd out tu try again to fiul the trail of tho loin hull elk of the Hluuamihonlng. There wa it good tracking tnow, and on the . mmth e-luuof Hag Hwamp they dlacov , ered track In the mow th tt they rtxb iilzrtl at once a an t Ik', and at the naino time they were arprledand by ni intnns pie iwl to leo the ludlau hunter, Jim Jacob, appear on the ctue nit: niUH'i niizK. 'Jacob wjui an old in-iu even then, although ho lived and hutited for teu ean longer, when he wm killed by tho can at Haianianca, N. Y. Io had hnuted elk for Ufty yeum, und knew all their hibiU mid luBtlucl prfettlv, ParmtuUr and Nelitou objected to the Indiin Jolulng them In the chaeof the ilk, and he w aa forced toleao the trail. The two white men followed the ilk for four day, and it led them through the i.lmot unbroken wIltbTiii of western Pnnfl)lranla ilear down to the head water of tho Chrion river, tu Clarion county. Ihero a blinding mowitorm came up, but they kept on, knowing that the elk wo ill nottrnxd in the Urm. At hut they dlacuurcd that the elk ha 1 taken nfugo in a latinl th.cktt, and they felt that the prize wo almost utthln their graffp, when n rllle that rang out n.xm the anowy nlr from the thicket, Ihey male their wiy fuUi the thicket, and in an opening in thu center stood the Indian, Jlnt Jivcob, one foot on the dead body of the ilk, and hi rifle held threateningly a-i he faeol the white hunters criepln,f through the 1 inrel. MThe wily lui'ian hvl read tho course of the elk by hi knowledge of the ant und' Instinct, and hu 1 followed tt survly a If he balheen on It track In tho enow, nnd had actually reached the limit iwamp where tho nulmal took ref ago before the Ik reached th. ro iUelf, The two wllte hunters, although din appoint dnnd chngrined over thilr failure fail-ure o capture tho prize they hail follow-til follow-til fur n hundred lnllt. were forced lo ncknoM le lu tho wutidt rf ul skill and un irring judgmeut of the ol 1 Iudlati, an 1 aidel him tniarr)lng hi j.riie home. IThehetduiilautlen of theelkwerofn Jacob Iiouku nt Balamancit at the time of Mdiub,nnl aro probably In that lltttO)et," New York bnn. |