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Show HUNT FOR BEAR IS 0LDST0RYT0 HIIV1 Guide for Tenderfeet Paid Well for Work SANTA BARBARA, CaT.. Feb. 12. To Quale Kspinosa, veteran Spanish guide of temlerfeeL hunting of wild boar on Sant Cms Inland, Is an old story, given a bit different twist at present by the receipt of good pay for his efforts. Rut to the sportsman a boar hunt offers of-fers the most thrilling sport to be found today within a few hours of a metropolis. This fact is just being appreciated, with the result that hunters from every section of the nation are making pilgrimages to the little island that lies ust off the iSanta Barbara coast. And they get their money's worth of sport as John K. Hogg, who with several sev-eral companions met with soma real adventures. Is willing to testify. I Returning from 8anta Crux with five I big boar. Hogg and members of his t party told a story of narrow escapes from death. Making the trip over I sheep and cattle trails by motorcycle, !the party reached the boar country. The wild hoar on the Island are direct di-rect descendants of a family of hogs, deserted a few centuries ago by a colony col-ony of prisoners kept on Santa Crux by the Hpanlsh government. After Ca-brlllo Ca-brlllo had discovered the Island in 1542. he pronounced it worthless, but Spain decided to use it as a penal colony. col-ony. A shipload of S00 heretics, thieves, usurers and assorted lawbreakers were dumped on the Island. They were supplied sup-plied with a few head of cattle and hogs and left to work out their own salvation. The prisoners immediately built rude ships and, killing the cattle and horses, covered the boats with skins and set sail leaving the hogs behind. As the centuries hare rolled by the hogs have evolved into th huge herd of wild boar, which now Infests the island. |