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Show OOSEVELT DECLINED INVITATION TO HUNT SCRAPPY ELK IN JACKSON hoi F Uliinter Tells Thrilling story of His Encounter JUtb Game the President Presi-dent Was Asked to Slaughter l ion cvxir piesentod "",), I. tMi ever presented fl ' ,,,' ,n m nml which, tho i . mors if tlia pIuIiih -"'(r ', , . cured him of his '"ir uuiHfe. Just before "it i rl 1 nl be wus '" """'Va. week In Hie Held hunt-11 hunt-11 ,r Inula of oiks und ",", Jd it mcil tlio plains of . s lk ,u,s understood Hie (' i ji I the Invitation jio'1 rtory ot the hunters sU" j t0 the story of the hunters Ji',.He'-'t but wua compelled 'L. Ine " 'Bcr WBS Brcat a,ul '4" (foia u run no U.ks ut this Khcnv ns originally arranged, ..il ins ! ' tlmn to ,nko Mr' ..It into the Jackson's Hole In ,joii.1. ml a week In this, the !,"tmiiro In the world. it.f I" the same law pro-..the pro-..the h ntms of mooso expired, in 1 oi ration for three years dorms tliat time the herds of ' jaik on Hole have Increased ' ,w th ro arc fully 10.000 moose Hole counlrj. In uddltion to this, 0( o elks have been seen ,j Jacks Hole In the past two uinJ cxp 'lenced hunters say the ri as milnc aportstmn's pnra-jimc pnra-jimc I' rklusoii, one of tin. moit jruldmof Wyoming, who 1ms Just -nJ fiom a tour of Inspection In wnHote fiUI lolny ldo Into Jackson Hole from the 1 about C o'clock In the morning. Inured the mouth of the cunon, tenters Ih Hole fioni that dlrcc-ilc dlrcc-ilc me upon the tlrst big herd of I lime r n since the dus when In li tils of CO 000 roumed the taofldiho and Wyoming. There tMI) 1000 moose In this herd, all rplnt ' lo" s that seemed Itch-.(s Itch-.(s rai jihericsldcnt had consented to tho ltio Jackson Hole ho would hao jidthc most strenuous hunt In his -r. Itnoull have been possible for ilotliarso on horsebick Into a held m moose and kill them vrith pistol bfeas lie desired. This was tho i a the das when buffnlo were iful and by charging a herd tho -c could dispatch from 50 to 100 ".lonllh knife and pistol mould have guaranteed that Prcsl-tRooneielt Prcsl-tRooneielt would not base desired -ilnf more strenuous than n dash itherdnf IOC) moose that hac not hunted fur three jours, und arc as Ittd fierce hi the buffalo was In Its Trdir 1 had the most exciting vnce In iny long career as n guide 'tatcrnf big game during this trip ijjtkmn Ilok. When T fist sighted bird of inone which I have alieady 'red to I made n long detour and fltlnir from my mustang crawled to lp of n small bill. Peering oer I -lthat the herd, fully 1000 in num. -sia grazing ut the foot of the hill. qnartT nr a mile uwny, I again nted and rode through n narrow h to the foothills and then out Into nil of the herd They were then t fifty i rl istnnt Ty I'ghi 1 mo In a second s time, 'iln ominotlon Suddenly a iraortiinr big bulls lushed to the flof the h"rrt und begnn bellowing. '- b'for I i mild mount my horse '111 li r I turned down on me I Ho the Kill h and dropped down he-Jib he-Jib I in ler In a cloud of dust oi li nwuy I could sie the atarn of moose surging down on " r li lowered and their ears i the r a ks The nolo bellow -tut rnortlng and eer nUlon M light fonn Hi une sweeping over me Hilling ud tumbling ner eich "in Ih mnl flight The boulder 'MM i o I would now be a mnn-4 mnn-4 i-l H took full, half an hour 'V he I ) pukS 'J win li h li nl stampeded was 4i by ' i held before It had run Mr 1 v i i the bridle rein liming Jht In a houlder holding the animal " Ih horse was (lit Into rlb- Th li Is llrst attacked htm. iitharii r mt hoofs cutting him llko " I found tho horse's body aW ai i t iMm d In n most shocking ""' Tu o i ws run down by iiofbnr i in th. rntinto whbli Is the I r i , icKprwitlon, but I "' mfrnln ln.nl Hint was as ifln this iirmy of fieiuled ? ' iinale that there ntv fully w mnn w In the Jiukson llolo i tr If ,Ky tre iiroleited nil- ihr i iioj would line suth "" i- I r would he no danger 'I mg extinct een without Wiipi ruce I saw In tile herl n'i -cr-si antlers I or knew "n Mont of the herd were f I e imuij two and tlnee. ' I hrj ,,(,,-5 unusually will y hu who gocit nflei them "ten imred for a tight As I '"' ' r ld' bad bten turned n " ti rd of iiioos" he would ' " ' of tho fray minus his ' " ' eimoiis, I believe, how- Ih t i i i,r been told the slory of ''T c with tho moose herd Hin u kpt Iilm out of inn-lnir inn-lnir irlp Into Jackson Hole" "i1' e lii iiiimberH In Jnck-"",'" Jnck-"",'" i ""I bs tlieHIk," con- ' ' Unison, "there are fullv ,, " ' lint section. I nw one ii,1 ' h eic Woo Hks They nro ,wi i lf. nn,i nrr, ,, cupel foi f"1 i me cm It 1 bo das beforn ., ' Hole Tom Williams, one " ', Hides In Wyoming " T l b mi ellt bull William" il thiough the neik ind i.V,. ' " kill It with his knife . "' ' rilen nnd was stretched 'h head llng full on the u " ( Huns nnde ft slab at the ii tntindliiK to drive lilt , ,f ii the hulls Jugiilir As ,. 1 ked (he elk's skin he j,, , fert ns If linpell-d by a , "' ith tilood spurting W "", 'I10 Infuriated bull 'd in iiond lowered and 1,rn I nn for stub work. Ilefnrn ill. M set out of tho wa the . in ''bled open his hltnllu't s, . 'mm waist to collar and ,, T, 'it h along tho spinal col. in,,' ' of the stroke knocked "' ' nnd the bull went at , m nnd tongs during one jm,,' tiimilnu the next tho t.n ', fast killing the lmntpr j i J. r of the party rushed In V,1 "' 'retuled bull with two , " ' oil s Wllllnnu w is tho i, , in in I mi win 'lime Hy , , h ( sound skin on III" H ' "ie of his libs ueie finc- itri " '"""' "" I'10 M nippiest i I 't ii unrth a man a llfo In i ' i Ith a kulfc mil. ni there , ir to kill the nnlinul If laneeious. If J'rMlJnt Rooscielt hil onl a , , ,, ,h ,, v, tullon for a hum m j,1( L ,,, Vim V W.M, he could Zetoi !';; "f VllVlm. UJ1K''I"",' R. Ullllloll of elks i i ,T "",'.' v" rr"" I the Win. or in. ill K ".' " '" lun' buniutcd "' ''Is love foi th, - iluu |