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RECREA TION. 



I had banked on his being my meat, I experien- 

 ced a peculiar feeling of displeasure, as I could 

 now plainly see what I supposed to be a'live 

 ram was nothing less than what you now see in 

 the engraving ; but while I was disappointed in 

 one way, I was highly pleased in another,inasmuch 

 as I had found something which probably can 

 never be duplicated. 



Not being in shape to cut the tree down, I 

 struck out for camp, intending some day to re- 

 turn and secure it. This was in 1891, and not 

 until June, 1893, was I able to go back. Then 

 I was en route to Red Lodge for provisions, with 

 two men and a pack outfit. As we were coming 

 in I said " now will be as good a time as any," 

 and so went up with one man and an extra pack 

 horse, cut the tree down and packed the specimen 

 to Red Lodge, a distance of sixty miles. From 

 Red Lodge I shipped it by rail to Livingston. 



The section of tree is 2 feet and 4 inches high. 



Circumference of top horn, 12^ inches. 



Length of top horn, 30^ inches. 



Spread of top horn, 21 inches. 



Circumference under head, 14 inches. 



Length of under horn, 35 inches. 



Spread of under horn, 23 inches. 



Diameter of tree, 9^ inches. 



Estimated weight, 80 pounds. 

 Many theories have been advanced by 

 scientists as to the manner in which these heads 

 came into the tree, but the most reasonable one 

 to me is this : 



Many years ago the Sheepeater Indians lived 

 in the high cliffs of the Rockies, in northwestern 

 Wyoming, and it is supposed a hunter among 

 them killed these animals and being unable to 

 care for the horns at the time placed them in this, 

 then, small tree on the edge of the park, where 

 he could return and secure them later, and this 

 Indian was either killed afterwards, during one 

 of the many Indian raids, or he was never again 

 able to locate the place or tell where he had 

 cached the horns, and the tree naturally grew up 

 and around the heads. 



Judging from the circles on the tree the horns 

 must have been placed in it 40 or 50 years ago. 

 The lower horns were ten feet from the ground. 

 The tree is as large as any other in that vicinity, 

 and when discovered was alive and green, fully 

 eighty feet in height. The altitude where the 

 tree grew is about 8,000 feet. 



Earl B. Wittich. 



CLEVER BOY SHOOTERS. 

 IV. 



Cornelius Furgueson, 3d, a Brooklyn boy, is one 

 of the clever, in fact phenomenal young, shooters 

 of the day. He is not yet 12 vears old, but 

 stands at the score with the best shots of that 

 city, and makes them hustle for their laurels. 

 He is a member of the New Utrecht Gun Club, 

 and in a contest for the championship badge, for 

 1894, has tied C. A. Sykes in five matches, each 

 having killed 85 out of a possible 90 birds. In 

 one of these matches " Conny," as he is famili- 

 arly called, killed 28 out of 31 birds, making a 

 run of 23 straight. 



In a recent sweepstakes he tied four of the 

 best men in the club, and in the shoot-off for 

 the purse outshot all but his father. In this 

 match he made a run of 28. 



CORNELIUS FURGUESON, JR. 



He won second in the championship race with 

 94 kills out of 100 birds shot at. The club has 

 presented him with a gold watch, suitably in- 

 scribed, for his good work during the year. 



Conny did his first shooting when 7 years 

 old. He uses a 16 gauge gun weighing 4^ 

 pounds and shoots at 20 yards rise. The club 

 of which he is a member is proud of him and 

 offers to match him against any boy in the 

 world under 14 years of age. 



J. G. Messner, Allegheny, Pa. , writes : 



I finally got away on my hunting trip, into the 

 wilds of Venango county. Hunted one day and 

 part of the next, when on account of a mishap to 

 my ankle I was compelled to give up. I went to 

 the house of my friend who was hunting with 

 me, where I remained for three days, unable to 

 walk. The weather was simply grand and birds 

 plentiful. Can you imagine my feelings? My 

 friend kept me company the first day, being loath 

 to hunt alone ; but on the second I insisted on 

 his going out, offering him my new Parker and 

 my own good shells. He came back in the even- 

 ing, loaded with game, and said my gun fitted 

 him perfectly. Before I left he had bought the 

 gun from me. I missed three lovely days' hunt- 

 ing. As it was, I brought home 10 ruffed grouse, 

 3 rabbits 3 squirrels and 1 woodcock. 



The Baker City (Ore.) Gun Club had a rabbit 

 hunt recently, and killed 235 jack rabbits and 

 some cotton-tails. J. B. Bowen won the medal, 

 killing nineteen. They were brought in and dis- 

 tributed, and rabbit was the chief bill of fare in 

 Baker City for several days following. 



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