| Show = = n = = = = = = = = = = = = 7 innnuinnnnnnnruiruuuui I r HUNTING WILD HOGS ON THE COLORADO I I I Col nno Wniiore Thrllllna Cxporlonco with DrUtoe t t Tlmt Know Not Fear nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrsnnn nnnnnnnnnruuu ntnra nnnnnruLn 1omono Cal July ITCot I Han atlera the bell Ulrno own allround hunter of wild < 1 nan In 1 the mounlalna and canyon of onou thorn California and 1 < Arliona cam home the other day after af-ter a brief Pectionn ot hunlln down the I Colorado river from Yum to the lull of California He trlla n rood alory of lilt eipertencM amonir the drove of onlid hon alone I the lute lands oil the banks of the Lower Colorado Col Dan We t term tella his experience M follow Oanmrou wild hoitef Holy imoke tby are Iho mo1 lremnloua f wr fut and trrclent l > e < uta In the whole 1 lulled States You never Paw or heard anythlne Ilkso them Why the old Iron I-ron kill it srliily bear In no time They are quicker than chain llzhtnlnir 1 never Is human lietnca more than once IiaCr w 3 and a tackle a drov M elti d hint hl n FeConds thoughts li They char 0 at not thult know anylhlna but fliiht for a living I Theyve not tusks that aro over half a foot OfIR and hr all nevolleom They r1lUl4 rip open n rhlnoceroa quicker Man you can think and they have the blU1 mouth full of the Intact awful llh llo over seen In nny menajferle When they mull mounded whew It 1 la I like animate 1 c clone It ally of you i leIslo go down the olod In huo And ohoot < > ono of the l1Iylh A Ud Incian 114111all t rot to shoot lo kin or hunt I bit tall Ire In the beat time any hu man being nor made or jou are a lonr sun Dont climb a 1 sapling > < for A Loot would soon dig It up by the rojti And then rip you to piece Dont Ixs t u hen hunting old r Clecea to keep I He It a tree 1 which you can climb quick nt hn three of the most Intelligent ballbd Yuma Indiana propose to take me on II hoar hunt I rrl1 rv4411Y enough tout h1 no idea vllnt kind or Ploort coast excitesuent I will AO Inst to boosts Id heard hunter tell 01 the 4iuicor In shooting those boars but I dummied half what they all for I never believed ft 1 beg aucli no we see Omni our rollch ctpjuucltl < l ever grow As lively find flares an Iho hunters told I bout I h1 110 11 ML It would < 1 bent bear hUnting 110 tile Yuma hillfbreeds lid I got ur early OM mornIng while all wer don the river aM mentup 14t It sparsely settled foothill district to I dr III Ur aa I supponed 1 a hog or too In the course of Iho day It 1 won 014111 When we got among the tree tom liat t-om wlno had been feeding there but V 2 nuld not see hide or bristle of lhorn W Welled the big dog loom > M In Un I thM tenty minutes we hard a dirp buy over i on tile right sit ut a quarter uf a mil la 1 a few minutes I heard a cranh u the undergrowth I and A n a savage grunt and ftilt and out started n big BOW 104 to half grown plan Just on tile low wared over a light eleiallon JWll 1W 1 feet Away I fired anti keeled hon nr Th plan stood still a minute 0111 they caught night of me when they horr1 furiously I knocked one If III I in Over before they had made 21 feet I but 1 tile other kept right on the tcl MI iure nf demonical rage will 1 > n flYIng from his jaws and hla corlh and tusks anapplnir like cnitlncta I L uIly orlaqj folglacatl IJ I had nil elf ilac d under n low broached ll > e uuk tree and I font no limo In pulling m > aelf out of the ih of the ravage harlot I Tho Ire a thick reading i oak and I wam If twough 10 Ik things easy I halt In unr InY WlnhMter over lilY of hould or t fore I Ascended the tree and ono of 1 t 1cr illy gun Pettlol I the hoot Joel Alut W yards away I could sea my Yuma P4VII9Q 10fintall < 1140111at 4 FPlIng I which was iiot over 5 or 6 lact In diamatcr Attractell by the fulh Of the hogs Jack tire Away from In I W tb tr jort Oa tremondou oil boar 411 lldd Out of if Underbrun about Co t t IIlj r1arole t distant dark to aw ul InA coming 4 titer 4clone II YlollO nnl Vllhoul Can 1ing shot At Islas The shot struck the 1 hihh boar fairly betwsj 11 A I mIght X an tit I ballelbahn flyeol I Itnuto bullt IQ state for sall ilia horns It did F td flattened Hk jollity and 114 nae Other IJ ditmaRts than to tharaug s eIlRathaWk 41 n lie Paw the lhjjj 11 r him R jyjh aticolOrce I start And started h room flYing from his hhl hl JI 11 ltbalrv j1jlsjfl11 little l Veil glInt 4vlllh Jack h1 a n I Imll reload his irun vs 11 Jell Was a Wr Ilachir and It It shed ba as i b loader the Indian would I pe Ism Is-m = forsiatten the fact In bin I tcr ur ho dl4nl torol Watters advice Its skinned up a Ixfbbul unluckily It I was a sapling barely big enough to bear hi so weight Tho boor U1r1 illln l slop In Ida charge but ran full tilt Into the sapling shaking It I so bully J WII llol he = I ngotackinst II could do 10 basic on When he boar found ho couldnt Zihen knock the tree down by sheer fore lie deliberately went to work In I another way U1le1walke4 around the mo Ihrra or four time until he converted lo have found A spot In which to begin operations opera-tions is Molj he rtinpeil I and began to dig and tear up the ground with hla long snout and to tear and bllo off the roots wllh his long tunks It 1 WA Mainly Main-ly evident that wunethlng would have lo IHI done pretty qulcJ or our memo dbnrre UIrr would be one short roar Jock wan hanging on and 1 yelling with all 1 his hionfln llVelllnir iil might anil every > ell I I appeared lo add to the rag of the txnr railing lo Jack to atop yelling and lo hang lo the trye I prepared to Irt ddlisloaacsot butlet1Ttlaerddlisloaacsot the brut have a 1 butlet1Ttlaer dlitanco was about ISO Yards slut aa It look n close shot to cfrwt anything against n hlhl30 the tough hid of an oil Iwor 1 mad preparation by standing on a big limb of the live 04k Ire and resting my gun on another about on a lavcl with my houlders Sty first shot struck tho boar behind the shoulder but aa he had Ib ot ht stood quartering toward me the only result Wag to teiir out a big piece of his hid along his side 1 < Inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound When the boar felt the sling of the bullet I he J AlI lrJJ mad for the tree I was In lie must either hale caught a gllmpsn of me or have mean tits smoke 01 the shut Inlllnlf ID the Indian 10 lIp down 0111 01 the little tree and mAke for a Nor one I tun1 my Attention 10 the base When he rains up I Paw that he was a 1nMou old fellow with Wake 01 hatit I Ih I In length Woo eyes alloi toned with ra and Ills brlalle stood out > like wires as ho charge the tro and begun to tear the bark In great c hips from lilt side for several feet > falls the ground After tearing Away for iwvrtnl I minutes the brute slopped mild tiegan > to rool up Iho 01 oulIII and tear and bite at the roots 01 the treoto but eldeatly ocian astloflell himself that I they I too large 1 and 1 ilia numerous nu-merous 10 = so M In that Way n1 he again went lo I Iho t body of the Irro Then wa no danger of him succeeding In that t undertaking but after watch InA him for a short limo I lrrrnln1 to I nnlah the affair It took halt n don shot nt close rang tu kill the brute and I am entitled ther would not have I lxhin tine chance In ton r vocisping thai way had I 1 been on the ground The whlpllk cracks of gun aft to tile left told plainly that lien and John my other hat II lifted Indian companions I ere also having their Photo of Ih roll I Aol down Anti oeorst 10 tile it here Jk was oolInrr an1 told < l him to conts d4nii an the 011 boar was dead We qulitiy aprpoached the quarter quar-ter from which the Pound I of the shoot Inv came nnd about Boot janla distant we suddenly win a lime opening about < 100 yards In circumference On the or poalto aide cf thims opening wo JAW n wide fprcnd lluonk from which puffa of amok were slowly drifting upward Ileneath and around the Ire were ataut a dozen will lioga Paneling and grunting wllh rage and creating a pan demonlum of mounds aa they bit and tore at the Itee and tried to reach the men by jumping upward Three of the lot were tremendous boar while tile others were town and half grown pigs Selecting a Inc I within easy shooting distance Jack and I cllmliel Into Ita branches and opened fire In a few I initiation nllt Ing hog umld Im aeui i and as none of them bell Undertaken I to run away We knior that bitween us we had nlpetl out lkrh Im When i ewe went to the tree Hen and John had doecended and were Handing In tin center of a ring of thirteen loga John was un ormfd and he explained the fact t > > y Paying that when he fired IU llrat shoot hA was some distance Away lront the treo And hd been pureunl x > closely that lit was forced to drop Ilia Run In 3 No make the it rlr which I lien had climbed II soon as ho Paw the big drove omlnlf We killed levcnteen wild hogs five I of which wer boara of tle ITt lie It waa laldjl n Ih blgieil daughter of wild hoga he had taken part In for I nvcral year AVa necked the tusks out of the jaw of the blgimt boars I with a Imtihet which lien carried In Ida belt and when we rmiaaured them vo lound Iht ono rolroe etleftyst I LhIl In Inlh W PtU I 1ta 01 Ih Amoll 1 eol hogs And carried the I but Ih IlAtttrz meat back 10 lInt nlbont bUl found an ho limit told Upillutbatograh ILIosh oC en lhe Willi a hlld I n rnk an1 IVeUo Xrowhtch rellll1 tI unpalatable Wool remolntol down the river an1 monlf Ihom mountains thonlo for 4 lUll vaseek and had 10m 11plen114 shooting but I tied hall my nil oC boor huntIng although the Yum Indiana urged 1M overy day 10 < no for nolhr 11m with the Irkto Memo the last days wo ere town there we ot 01 ovor 100 wild ducks and fifty as td ci end do quaillalobe I f7lose |
