and of his utter inability to corral and ship the outlaws, 
about seventy-five in number, Pablo finally decided that 
the only way in which he could get his money out of 
them was by selling rights to ‘ ‘hunt” and shoot them, at 
so much per head! 
Accordingly the word went forth—in Canada—that 
anyone who wished to become a genuine “buffalo hunter,”’ 
A. D. 1910, might do so by paying Michel Pablo, once 
owner of the outlaws, $250 for the privilege of making a 
kill. It was stipulated that Pablo would furnish free 
transportation for the trophy head to the railroad. 
On the above basis a party of eight or ten dis- 
tinguished Canadians was made up, ‘each of whom 
elected to become a near-buffalo-hunter. The astound- 
ing feature of this whole enterprise was the presence in 
that company of “hunters” of Commissioner Howard 
Douglas, the man whose great interest in the saving of the 
bison led him to negotiate with Pablo the purchase by 
Canada of the Pablo herd. Until the proposed buffalo 
hunt was arranged, we would have supposed that nothing 
eould have induced Mr. Douglas to go out and deliber- 
ately shoot down a perfectly healthy and vigorous 
buffalo. There were those who at first refused to believe 
that Mr. Douglas had entered into the buffalo-killing 
plot. There were those who thought that those outlaw 
buffaloes had not only fairly earned their freedom, but 
were entitled to protection also. 
At what was practically the last moment, the news 
of the intended ‘‘buffalo-hunt’? on American soil leaked 
out from the Flathead reservation, and finally reached 
a man who spread it where he thought it would do the 
most good. It was rightly pointed out that the event 
proposed would, if consummated according to program, 
be a disgrace to the United States. The idea of shooting 
down bison because they could not be captured and sold 
and shipped, was nothing less than revolting. 
Mr. Henry Avare, Game Warden of the State of 
Montana, proved himself the man for the emergency. 
He applied to the Attorney-General of Montana for an 
opinion regarding the legality of hunting and killing the 
bison that had effectually escaped from Pablo, and were 
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