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who has tried it must he well aware, this mode of loco- 

 motion when applied to the mountains and entirely off 

 any road requires some skill and plenty of practice; con- 

 sequently they did not make it quite as soon as we did 

 with our buiTOs; however, they were in time enough, for 

 after pitching the fouf tents we all went out for a two- 

 hour hunt before dark. Andrea saw and wounded slightly 

 a fine silver-tip, which, however, got off. Next morning 

 we took after the wounded bear, but the dogs soon lost 

 him, and we tried another track with similar effect; then 

 they followed one at full cry, and we followed them for 

 six or seven miles, only to find that they had overrun the 

 one they started on and were running an old one. Of 

 course they were wild and somewhat out of practice, but 

 the dryness of the ground was against them as well; our 

 horses being a little tu-ed we returned. I was anxious 

 that our two friends should see the dogs on their best be- 

 ha.vior, for they were quibe new to the sport and did not 

 know what to expect, consequently I was not a Uttle 

 annoyed at the day's proceedings. 



That evening we Avent out without hounds. J. and E. 

 were the first to hide themselves in the oak brush, at 

 elevated points where they could see all around without 

 being seen. Just as the sun was about to go down, out of 

 the oak brush, about 600yds. from the observatories, 

 stalked an immense brown bear. "What an odd-looking 

 horse." thought J., who, however, soon discovered his 

 mistaJje when bruin began to pace across a small flat 

 between the hedges of brush, J. at once made off to 

 where he expected to meet his highness. E. had, how- 

 ever, also seen him, and lost no time in circumventing 

 such a bea.uty. No sooner did the bear show his nose than 

 E., who is an old hand, dived into obscurity and was lost 

 to view. So it came to pass that when E. was within 

 shot, but not in sight of his prize, *'bang!" went a .50-95 

 express close to him, and before he could ascertam the 

 cause, "bang! bang!" rung out two more shots in quick 

 succession, and all was still. Hastening to the spot 

 whence came the sound of firing, imagine E.'s disgust at 

 finding his big bear dead, and killed, not by J., but by 

 Andres, who they thought was hunting in quite another 

 direction. He had, however, sneaked out, and with his 

 usual luck stumbled plump on top of bruin without wait- 

 ing long and patiently for the chance, as the others had 

 done. J. arrived soon afterward somewhat out of breath 

 (for by his figure one might think him fond of good living 

 when at home); he had seen another, but smaller, bear on 

 his way down, which he fired at and missed. He seemed 

 rather astonished at the size of the dead one, and solemnly 

 declared he had never seen one nearly as large, either- 

 stuffed or in any of the zoological gardens. 



The next day we took the hounds out again and soon 

 found a track, but whether the ground was too dry, or 

 what, I knew not, possibly the large flock of sheep inter- 

 fered with the scent, anyway, the dogs would not or 

 could not run; so home we went again. Next day we 

 stayed in camp to rest the horses and hounds, but did not 

 feed the latter. I caught 150 trout in an incredibly short 

 sp^ice of time; they were not large, in fact a half-pound 

 fish was rare; but they were not very small and jumped 

 at the flies Avith avidity. P. killed a few mountain 

 pigeons, some ducks, and a grouse, and Andres secured a 

 young gobbler. 



The following morning was a glorious success long to 

 be remembered in the annals of our bear hunting. We 

 started at about eight A. M. and turned our dogs loose on 

 a track about a mile from camp, some rain had fallen 

 during tiie night and the scent was perfect. To my horror 

 and disgust, the hounds circled round in the brush and 

 then split in all directions. What could it mean? I must 

 confess I fully expected another blank day, but made up 

 my mind to follow. J., G. and I took one branch, 

 Andres, E. and P. the other. We had six dogs with us, 

 or rather well in front of us, for they were rapidly 

 ascending the mountain on our right, when G. let out a 

 yell, the cause of which was a large brown bear breaking 

 cover near the summit, but considerably ahead of the 

 pack, who were after another one. Spurs were instantly 

 and effectually applied, G. and I reached the top where 

 we met J,, who had gone round another way, the bear 

 had just passed him, but owing to the thickness of the 

 brush he could not fire. There was not a dog within a 

 mile of us, they having torn off down the hill again after 

 another as fast as their legs could carry them. Quick as 

 thought I ran to the edge we had just climbed over and 

 blew my horn with all my might; a dog answered me, 

 and soon I could see them away down below\ However, 

 after tooting till my veins began to swell and my breath 

 to depart, I was rewarded by the appearance of six dogs 

 comiug up again. In a few minutes they were on bruin's 

 trail and off we went. Not more than 40yds. from here 

 they split again, but we followed the bunch of three who 

 were after the bear we had sighted. A two-mile gallop 

 through quaking asp, pine and fallen timber brought us 

 to the edge of a cailon, on the other side of which we 

 cotdd hear the dogs baying in one place. Here I stopped 

 to fix my girth before going down. G. and J. rode on and 

 found him sitting across a limb about 15ft. from the 

 ground; J. dismounted and plugged him in the cranium. 

 Death was instantaneous, G, was then despatched for a 

 jack-ass, on the arrival of which we returned with our 

 three hounds and the bear. 



On nearing camp we met two more donkeys coming 

 out. E., P. and A. had been having a rollicking time. 

 While standing in an open space listening to the dogs, 

 which were split up, a big cinnamon broke cover close 

 to them with only one hound behind him. E. dismounted 

 and fired; knocking him down, but he arose and fled in a 

 hurry, as did E.'s horse. After a chase the pony seemed 

 ashamed of his fright and allowed himself to be cap- 

 tured. E. at once gallojjed off in the direction taken by 

 the bear and arrived in time to see Andres fire and drop 

 the bear from his- perch in a small pine tree. E. then 

 laid down his rifle and went to w^ork with his skinning 

 knife. While thus engaged he heard the hounds yelling 

 at no great distance off ; and looking up saw a brown bear 

 pass close to him and disappear before he had time to run 

 for the rifle. There were no dogs with the beast and he 

 got dear away. This time he returned to his work with 

 his Winchester, and lucky it Avas that he did so, for in a 

 few minutes a two-year-old black she bear came out with 

 three dogs at her heels. E. took a quick shot and 

 wounded but did not stop her. Then came a chase. P., 

 who had also seen this bear, got there first, but having 

 only a shotgun and buckshot ^wisely waited for A., who 

 shot her as soon as she treed. All this happened within 

 an hour, and by 10 o'doek we were all in oamp, except 



four dogs, wliich I believe had more bear. Toward even- 

 ing a Mexican came and told us that one of the hotuids 

 had kept a bear treed since the morning at some distance 

 from Avhere we killed the last two; he had nO gun and 

 Avas obliged to leave it, and it was too far away for us to 

 get there before dark. This dog was barely a year old 

 and had not seen a bear before. About midnight the 

 other four dogs returned, one at a time. Five grown 

 bears that Ave know of left that patch Of brush at once; 

 how many more might ha.ve gone off unobserved is hard 

 to teU, biit P. was sure that the country was full of them. 

 One dog had the pad cut oft" her foot and another had a 

 svvoUen face from the fray. 



The next day we had a good run for about three miles. 

 I was left behind trying to cut off the bear's retreat, 

 while unfortunately he took off in the wrong direction. E, 

 got there first, and thinking he Avas alone with the ex- 

 ception of a strange Mexican, Avho joined him, did not 

 wait; I was not 100yds. behind, but too late to save my 

 dog, for when E. fired he wounded the bear, which fell 

 off his resting place and instantly arose to his feet, scat- 

 tering the pack like chaff before the wind. I arrived 

 just in time to see the fatal shot, and there Avas poor little 

 Juhe, a stump-tailed hound, running about with her 

 entrails hanging out. The excitement of the chase had 

 evidently prevented her from feeling, for she AA'as barking 

 ^d playing around, wagging her stumj) of a tail for all 

 she was' worth. I then called her to me, and finding the 

 intestines bitten in pieces, I saw no hope but to put her 

 out of her misery before any reaction set in. Towser, a 

 yearling hound, fastened on the bear's nose for about a 

 second, but judging from his appearance he will prefer 

 the opposite end of the next bear, for although not 

 seriously hurt, he looked very much like a ma,n whom I 

 once saw after a prize fight. The bear was a large male 

 cinnamon. We packed him home with Julie, to whose 

 memory a monument was erected. 



The following day we did not find a track till about 9 

 o'clock, and then I thought it not fresh enough, so we 

 rode off to look for another, wiien Andrea, Avho had been 

 left behind, fired tw^o shots and we retraced our steps; he 

 had seen and shot at, but missed a big brown bear. The 

 dogs were soon uncoupled a.nd ran straiglit away for a 

 good six miles at racing pace, it was all we could do to 

 keep them in hearing; and when we pulled in our horses 

 J. and I were alone, the others being a long way behind. 

 On coming to the spot where the dogs had bayed, we saw 

 a large brown bear standing on an immense limb, not 

 more than twenty feet up; he looked so much like com- 

 ing down that we fired at a greater distance than usual, 

 the consequence being that he came doAvn in an ex- 

 tremely lively style. Having a shot through the jaAv and 

 one leg broken, he could not get at the dogs well, and as 

 we ran in I shot him through the side and dropped him, 

 and I gave him the covj) de grace. 



The next day we took a rest, having got six bears, five 

 of which were males and above the average size. P. shot 

 a turkey, E. and I caught trout, while J. rode off in the 

 evening to wait by a bear wallow that we had discovered 

 in the vicinity. When he returned this was the tale he 

 told. On arriving at the water hole, he selected a hide 

 from which he could shoot any animal while bathing, and 

 waited. Soon he began to think. His past life, with all 

 its sins, pleasures, fortunes and misfortunes, floated 

 before his eyes; a twig snapped just behind him, and on 

 turning to see the cause, he found himself staring into 

 the smaU green ey es of the cinnamon bear he had come 

 to meet. Both were astounded, and took a good look at 

 each other to be sure there was no deception. The bear, 

 however, was the first to gra.sp the situation, and what 

 did he do? Else on his hindfeet and with a blood-curd- 

 ling roar dash his enemy to the ground? Oh, dear, no; 

 he skedaddled and left J. wondering how it was he had 

 never shot him. However, it was too late now, and J, 

 knew well how useless it would be to follow. So he 

 simply remained where he was, only Avith his thoughts 

 running in a slighly different groove. Here was J. stand- 

 ing bolt upright in the brxish, looking keenly about him, 

 Avhen he discovered that another bear, and much bigger 

 one, had stolen a march on him, and was trotting down 

 to the bath in full view. J. thought he would wait till 

 he came nearer and make certain of this one, so sloAvly 

 he began to sink into the brush to be completely hidden, 

 but this very action attracted the attention of those rest- 

 less little eyes, and bruin made a plunge, leaving big claw 

 marks in the ground as the only sign that he had ever 

 been near the place. Some bullets flew after, but did not 

 find him. This was too much for J., who got on old 

 Tuskey and galloped home. 



The next day we ran the dogs there without success, 

 and the next day .1. and P, attended to home industries, 

 and used lots of soap. E. , G. , A. and I went out and 

 turned our dogs loose on a good looking track. E. and A. 

 followed close on their heels, but G. and A. made for the 

 top of the hill, from where we could guess their destina- 

 tion and possibly take a cut on them. G. was in front of 

 me, and when just's^t the top I saw him trying to get his 

 gun out of the scabbard, but it Avas no go. A beautiful 

 black shining bear trotted by us as if there was nothing 

 on earth to bother him, and was gone in the dense quak- 

 ing asp before either of us was ready for him. I yelled, 

 and blew, and fired my gun off for the hounds, but not a 

 dog appeared this time; they had struck a bunch of deer 

 and were going to have some fun; they came in the next 

 day, good for nothing. That night the rain came, and 

 we had two or three inches of water all around our beds, 

 In the morning our friends, P. and J., departed on busi- 

 ness bound, and we rested. The following morning we 

 had another very long run, and finished with a kill for 

 G. , who got there just before us. This bear was also a 

 male, brown, and of good size; the hide measured 7ft. 

 7in. by about 4ft. That evening while in bed a skunk 

 came into the tent, so I got a trout and poisoned it. Next 

 morning E,, whose proboscis is extra sharp (and ought to 

 belong to an inspector of nuisances), woke up at about 3 

 A. M. T always lie well covered, and therefore was en- 

 abled to declare my ignorance of any extraordinary smell, 

 and my desire to sleep, thinking that he would remove 

 the cause, which I soon became certain was not far off, 

 However, he did not, for like many human beings he 

 could not endure to see me rolled up apparently asleep 

 when he could scarcely come anywhere near the tent 

 himself. I could not keep the farce up long though, and 

 determined to find it myself, so I arose and soon found 

 the creature under a box near our beds. We moved camp 

 nest day for another range of mountarns. 



A. P. F. OOAPE. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO, Jan, 39.— Grand Calumet Heights Club held 

 another meeting last nighx. The tenure of the club 

 on its present grounds remains uncertain and unsettled, 

 although the club has very strong legal rights which 

 would make a sale of that property or an attempted evic- 

 tion. of the club an exceedingly puzzling bit of work for 

 the syndicate purchasers with whom negotiations are nojv 

 progi-essing. A committee wa^ appointed to confer 

 further. 



The much-talked-of bill for the suppression of pigeon 

 shooting jn Illinois has finally been introduced to the 

 State liegislature now sitting. The record of bills intro- 

 duced this morning reads as follows: "By Senator Bass — 

 Providing for the suppression of pigeon-shooting and sim- 

 ilar sports, making the penalty for indixlgence in such 

 sports |50. The bill does not apply to the shooting of game 

 in its wild state." It is suggested to the worthy Senator 

 that his name would be practically as euphonious and 

 more appropriate if he would drop the front letter of his 

 name. Senator Wright, too; he is all wrong. He has 

 introduced a bill "allowing the use of seines for fishing' 

 in navigable streams and in streams emptying into navi- 

 gable streams." We are apt to haA^e some solid chunks of 

 wisdom now, and oar beautiful code of laAvs may be fur- 

 ther reformed and adorned by the artistic granger legis- 

 lator. 



Mr. Bird, of the Grand Galumet Heights Club, last 

 night gave me the incidents of a singular and pathetic 

 lake shore tragedy. He was walking along the beach of 

 Lake Michigan not long ago when he came upon a dead 

 sea gull. Examining it, he found protruding from the 

 jaw a large fishhook, quite a length of the line being still 

 attached. The bird had evidentlj'' tried to free itself of 

 the hook by scratching at it with its foot, and at some 

 stage of this effort the point of the protruding hook had 

 passed through the web of the foot. The bird was thus 

 pinioned with its foot against its mouth. How long and 

 slow the subsequent struggle for life no one knows, but 

 here the weaves had tossed upon the beach the record and 

 picture of the tragedy. 



Messrs. Marshall and Metcalf , named earlier as having 

 gone to Mississippi after quail, went to Trenton, in that 

 State, and had elegant sport, averaging B5 or 40 birds a 

 day. They complain of the handicap of close choked 

 guns, and they had only black powder shells with them. 

 There are still a few people left who retain the folly of 

 closely choked guns for field Avork, and some of them 

 even shoot black powder at quail yet. 



They seem to be getting the greyhound fever out in 

 Dakota, The following I notice in this morning's dis- 

 patches. "Mitchell, S. D., Jan. 38.— The most exciting 

 sport ever held at Mitchell occurred to-day in the coursing 

 races between tAvo greyhounds. Nig, belonging to J. W. 

 Seaman, and Tulu, belonging to McDermain & Smith. 

 Jack I'abbits were the prey, and there were three races. 

 In the first race Tulu scored eight points and Nig five and 

 a half. In the second Tulu scored seven and Nig five. In 

 the third race Tulu scored seven points and Nig sixteen. 

 Total, Tulu 22, Nig 26|. The third race was an exciting 

 chase of four miles. This gives Seaman the |300 prize. 

 H. G. Nichols now challenges Seaman's Nig to ran his 

 hound Bly in similar chases in April." 



There are spiketails and sawbilis in small numbers now 

 on the lower end of Lake Michigan. The present rainy 

 and lowery weather should soon give us mallard shooting 

 on the Kankakee. We are having no winter at all to 

 speak of in the banana belt. 



I think it was rather hard of Jim Eiley, when the 

 telegram announcing the last defeat of Elliott by George 

 Kleinman in the pigeon match here was received at Kansas 

 City, to say, "Well, I reckon .Jim' II come back to wearing 

 the 6| hat again now." Mr. Riley really oughtn't to talk 

 that way. Yet there is a homely philosophy in his re- 

 mark which all good sportsmen might study. 



John Gillespie, of the Jeimey & Graham Gun Co., has 

 been very sick and is only now getting around . Doctor's 

 bills come high, and it costs funds to travel, but really, 

 now, I think John will go South for a week or two and 

 rest up. It looks that way. Those people indefinitely but 

 generally known as "the boys" think John ought to go, 

 you know, and what they say, goes. There are worse 

 folks in the world than these "boys." 



Jan. £4. — ^Mallards have appeared on the Kankakee 

 mai'shes. The winter here has been mild. Mallards are 

 shown in the markets. They come from Paw Paw, Mo, 



Messrs, W. A. Van Brunt, of Horicon, and Fred Mer- 

 rill, of Milwaukee, were in town this week en route for a 

 six weeks' trip at quail shooting in northern Mississippi. 

 They had Avith them five setters and pointers and five 

 beagles, among them some bench and trial winners. The 

 beagles they are taking doAvn for fun at the cottontails. 



I am often asked where to go for good quail shooting in 

 the South. John Watson, of Areola, La. , can take care 

 of hunting parties and assure them good shooting. Holly 

 Springs, on the Illinois Central Railroad, is a good point, 

 and Amery, Miss., the old field trial point, is good for 

 birds. Magnolia Station, about 100 miles north of New 

 Orleans, is another good place. 



The members of the East and West trap-shooting com- 



Eany of the U. S. Cartridge Co. , who made the big trip 

 ist winter, organized into a society known as the "lolan- 

 thes." A reunion was to have been held at Dayton, O., 

 the 37th of this month, but this has been postponed as 

 other plans are on foot. An interesting bit of shooting 

 news is thought to be concealed in this postponement, as 

 will transpire later. 



Mr, Rolla O. Heikes arrived in the city last Monday 

 morning and has entered upon his duties as Western rep- 

 resentative of the Standard-Keystone Co. His family 

 will come on to their home here within a month. 



Jan. 31. — On the corner of 18th street and Wabash 

 avenue, in this city, is a grocery, in the window of which 

 I have often seen the mounted figure of a white animal. 

 Once I looked at it more carefully. It was the figure of 

 a deer, but the coat was a snowy white. Everybody has 

 heard of white deer and knows the superstition about 

 them. I never knew of the actual killing of an actual 

 white deer, and doubted the genuineness of this. I asked 

 for Mr. Tebbetts, senior member of the firm. Together 

 we examined the "white fawn," as it is called in the store. 

 The genuineness of the albino deer was no longer to be 

 doubted. Mr. Tebbetts gave me a letter to Mr. C. E. Roe, 

 a commission merchant of 124 S, Water street, this city, 

 of whom he purchased the carcass of the deer. I saw 

 Mr. Roe yesterday, and he recounted the history of this 

 singular animal so far as he knew it, 



