'"-^r-^ FOREST AND STREAM. tjuLv ^o, toof. 
limb, presenting liis broadside lo us, a capital position for 
a sure: shot, I at once fired again, and this time caught 
him just behind the foreshoulder, the bullet passing 
through his body, coming out below the spine. He was 
just prepanng to lump, but at the report of the rifle his 
strength left him, and he cam.e tumbling down. z\s he 
fell he made vain attempts to save himself by chitching 
at the limbs, and broke off several as large as a man's 
arm, The guide laughingly remarked, "He is bringing 
down his arms full of chibs to use on the dogs," but by 
the time he reached the groimd he was powerless, and in 
a few minutes was dead. 
He proved to be a magnificent specimen of his kind, a 
large male, measuring seven feet from tip to tip, and 
weighing^ as we afterward learned, one hundred and fifty 
pounds. We lashed him to a strong pole and two of 
us managed to carry him, but he made a heavy load, and 
we were glad when we had him securely fastened to the 
saddle on old Kate's back. We now began our homeward 
trip, arriving at the ranch about 7 P. M., well pleased with 
our day's sport. 
On our next hunt we concluded to try the Big Alkali 
again, and starting in good season arrived at about 11 
A. M. This time we took the right-hand prong of the 
gulch. As before, we soon came upon lion tracks and 
passed several old ones, but left them to look for some 
more recently made, which we found. The dogs were then 
unleashed and were soon in full ci^y on the trail. 
As on our last hunt, the lion crossing a dry hillside 
gave the dogs some trouble. Old Trail quickly got thing 5 
straightened out, and he and his companions were out o( 
sight over the top of the mountain. We could hear their 
steady bay for a few minutes, and then the sharp, quick 
yelp, telling us the lion was started. There was this differ- 
ence between our first and this hunt: in that one the lion 
running in a circle had come back to the tree near his 
starting point, while this one took a straight course over 
a high mountain. For a while the dogs were out of our 
healing, but as we knew the general direction they had 
taken, we followed, and were soon in hearing distance 
again, and knew by the sound that the lion had treed. It 
took two hours of the hardest kind of climbing to get 
where they were. In the meantime the lion had been in 
several different trees] we coxlM tell by the barking of 
the dogs when he would leave one, and after running a 
short distance take to another. 
We finally reached a point about one hundred and fifty 
yards from where the lion had taken refuge in the top of a 
small cedar, and from here we witnessed a strange sight. 
The tree the lion had selected was, unluckily for him, a 
low, scrubby one, on which the limbs grew close to the 
ground,. and old Trail, not content to stay below and wait 
for us, concluded to go up after him. The sight of a dog 
in a tree ten feet above ground and within three feet of a 
large lion was what met our view. 
From our position we could hear his cat-like snarl and 
see him reach down and strike at the dog with his mighty 
paw, one blow of which would have killed the rioble ani- 
mal. It was not a case of "know nothing, fear nothing," 
for Trail was six years old, and had been hunting lions 
since he was a puppy. In some way he managed to evade 
each blow It was a hard place to shoot, for a little 
variation would have resulted in kiUing the dog. But 
thinking he could do no better, the Doctor fired, the firsi 
shot shattering one hind leg of the lion, and firing again 
as quickly as possible, he broke the other. This, of course, 
caused the Hon to lose his balance, and down he came, and 
with him old Trail. Both landed about the same time, and 
lion and three dogs were pretty avcU mixed up. He wa^s 
still able to use his forepaws with telling effect, and it 
was here tliat one of our dogs was injured — little Drum, 
the fox hound — although he subsequently recovered. Ap- 
parently thinldng the dogs were too thick for him, the 
lion ran down the mountain directly toAvard us, leaving a 
trail of blood behind him on the snow, and in spite of his 
crippled condition made good progress. A large spruce 
stood about fifty feet in front of us, and toward this he 
came. The dogs were snapping at his heels as he reached 
it, and started up. climbing by the use of his forepaws 
and the stumps of his hind legs, but old Trail had no 
idea of letting him escape, and fixing his teeth in his hind 
quarters he hung on with a persistency that I have never 
seen equaled. In his crippled condition the weight of 
the dog proved too much for him, and he fell back to 
the ground, where another shot from a Winchester killed 
liim, thus ending what the guide said was the most ex- 
citing lion hunt in which he had ever engaged. 
In taking the lion down the mountain, we found a deer 
he had lately killed and partly eaten, burying the re- 
mains in the mow. 
We soon reached the horses, and lashmg our game on 
the back of one of them, started for camp, arriving there 
about dark. E- Burnham. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Bear Country. 
Chicago, July 13.— Judge Charles H. Aldrich, of Chi- 
cago, and Mr. Bert Seaboldt, the "asphalt kmg of Utah," 
have not yet gone away for their trout and bear trip in the 
Uintah range of Utali, but they haA^e to-day nearly finished 
assembling their outfit and will presently start for the 
West. . . , , , 
I was speaking to Mr. Seaboldt this mornmg, and asked, 
him, among other things, where the big grizzly bear skins 
come from which are so often in the market at Salt Lake 
City, it being a well-known fact that some of the best 
grizzly hides marketed in the United States come froiu 
that point. Mr. Seaboldt said that they came very largely 
from" the Wahsatch range and the spurs making out from 
that range. The main range of the Uintahs is another 
favorite point for these bears. Mr. Seaboldt said that the 
station of Price, on the D. & R. G. Railroad in Utah, -was 
a good place to have for an objective point, and that the 
cattle country twenty-five to forty miles out from there 
and in the foothills of the mountains would produce bears 
enough to satisfy the most ambitious hunter. He said 
that one outfit of professional hunters came in there a 
couple of years ago and cleaned out the bears and moun- 
tain Hons which had practically rendered the raising of 
stock impossible. Mr. Seaboldt thinks that one might 
run across his grizzly in that region, although he admits 
that black bears are now more plentiful than the grizzlies. 
His party will go 150 miles from the railroad, clear up 
mto the Uintahs, and he expects to have some pretty good 
grizzl}!- stories by the time he comes out. He speaks with 
great respect of the grizzlj^^ as seen in the Wahsatch 
country or in the Book range of mountains, which is a 
spur of the Wahsatch, and says -that some of the hunters 
up_ there found more bears than they wanted. They had 
a few bear dogs in with them, and, of course, this .was the 
reason they saw so many bears. 
As to still-hunting the grizzly, it nvay be a possible thing 
in that part of the world, but I would have to be .shown 
about that. None the less, this is a bear country worth 
keeping in mind. Mr. Seaboldt is an experienced hunter 
and outdoor man, and knows what he is talking about. 
He thinks the late fall is the best time to go after bear 
there, as the hides arc in much better shape at that season. 
Good Grouse Country. 
Mr. Harry C. Sefton, of Mt. Vernon, O., is passing 
this summer in Chicago. Mr. Sefton recently returned 
from a trip in southern California, not far from San 
Diego. He did not fancy that country so much, since it 
showed little game but the valley quail, of which he said 
there were a great many near the ranch on which he 
was living. He advised me that last fall he and some 
friends made a hunting trip to Buford, N. D., or rather 
across the line from Buford. They went southwest into 
the bottoms of the Yellowstone River, going about twelve 
or fifteen miles from Buford before they pitched their 
camp. Some of the party killed deer, and they a;J of 
them got all the shooting they cared for at sliarp-iaiied 
grouse, which they found in the thickets and tne grassy 
country adjoin ng the river bottoms, as well a!; in the 
edges of the Bad Lands across the river. Mr. Seilon 
says that the station agent at Buford told him tha: he 
had the previous winter seen over i.ooo deer shipped from 
that locality. This statement is probably not accurate, 
although it has without question something of a founda- 
tion in fact. The bottoms of the Missouri River or the 
Yellowstone River are, in this neighborhood, Avide and 
deeply covered with willows and brier thickets. Here the 
Avhite-tailed deer are still fairly numerous, and can be 
killed by a man who is able to shoot a deer running after 
jumping it at close range. Mr. Sefton said that he heard 
of grizzly bear sign about twenty miles southeast of Bu- 
ford in the Bad Lands country, and it would seem that 
once in a Avhite a grizzly is heard of in that country 
even yet. 
Far from Home. 
It Avas far from home that Mr. John Ellingson died, and 
under A^ery sad circumstances. Mr. Ellingson lived at 
Austin, a suburb of tliis city, and he had been for many 
A'ears employed as an artist on the Chicago Record. He 
was by personality pleasant and kindly, and although a 
cripple, nature having given him a deformity of the spine, 
he Avas nonetheless CA'er cheerful and devoid of the least 
trace of peevishness. About three months ago Mr. Elling- 
son and a friend, Mr. Hall, another artist, determined to 
go to Old Mexico for a trip of rest and exploration. They 
did not intend to stay very long, but they found the 
country hard to get away from. The simple-minded 
people of the mountain regions in which they found tliem- 
selves were glad to pay them for their photographs and 
sketches,, and the young men lived nicely on occasional 
work in this way, being practically the guests of the 
natives for many Aveeks, the latter not being accustomed to 
anything in an artistic way so finished as these two Chi- 
cago gentlemen were able to give them. 
It was natural enough for these tAVO young men to wish 
to make up a hunting party, and about three weeks ago 
they did so, engaging a half-dozen Indians, and going 
up into the mountain country back of the village where 
they. Avere situated. They Avere hunting at an altitude of 
about 7,000 feet, and were all in apparently good physical 
condition. -Mr. Ellingson was by himself for a short 
time, when he chanced to see four deer. He called to Mr. 
Hall to bring him a rifle and expressed regret that the 
latter had arrived too late, as he could have killed all 
of the deer had he been in possession of the gun. It was 
but a few moments later than this that Mr. Ellingson was 
taken suddenly sick, and it required but a short time for 
his friends to see that the matter Avas of a serious nature. 
They called it acute a.sthma,. though it might have been 
heart disease so far as any one can tell, since there was 
no physician along. At any rate, the afflicted man had 
the greatest difiiculty in breathing, and it Avas soon seen 
that the end was npt far away. Hastily making a litter, 
the party carried him as far as they could down the 
mountains, but in less than four hours from the time he 
was first taken, he Avas a corpse. When Mr. Hall brought 
the body of his friend into the village, he was confronted 
with a strange dilemma. It seems that a dead body can- 
not, lawfully, be brought into town in that country, and 
since Mr. Hall had broken the laAV, he was in danger of 
imprisonment, Avhich Avould perhaps have meant tAvo years 
of incarceration at least. It was only his half-tearftd ex- 
postulation that he did not know his friend was dead that 
saved him from this further misfortune. Mr. Ellingson 
was buried there in Mexico, far from home, and Avhat was 
undertaken as a pleasure trip thus ended in the most sor- 
rowful manner possible. E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in FoREST AND Steeam. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
A Hunting Frieze. 
Mr. E. W. Deming, the well-known artist, has just cbm- 
.pleted for a house in Yonkers a draAving-room frieze 
which has for subject an Indian moose hunt. The suc- 
cessive .stages of the hunt are pictured in the several 
panels in Indian pictograph style, and the Avhole makes a 
-\'ery effective piece of decoration. The paintings are-now 
on exhibition in Mr. Deming's studip, No. 21 West 
TAventy-fourth street, this city. 
His Marksmanship. — "Did-^-did you ever shoot a man?" 
•questioned the tenderfoot timidly of Peppeirhole Pete. 
"See here, young feller," bailed Pepperliole Pete, ^ a 
-voice that shook Pike's Peak, "don't yfftf ri'eVeif teflect on 
my marksttianship ag'in! Shoot a man ! .1 never mfes'd 
one, y' dern galaot !"— Ohio State-Jdurnal?-^ 
Black Bass in Texas. 
For ten years or more Mr. Wm. D. Cleveland, of 
Houston, Texas, and I fished together every season for 
one fish or another in one place or another. Sometimes 
the Avhole summer Avas devoted to fishing, at others a fcAV 
Aveeks only. We fished for trout in Maine and the Adiron- 
dacks; black bass in Canada, West Virginia and New 
York ; ouananiche at Lake St. John ; lake trout at Saranac 
and Lake George, and mascalonge in Hay Bay and the 
St. LaAvrence, and for anything that Avould bite in other 
Avaters. Business finally kept him in the South, and he 
developed into a tarpon fisherman, and devoted his spare 
time to the big herring, and other duties curtailed my 
fishing, and Avhen I could I sought fresh pastures and 
Avent further afield, so Ave did not meet to fish in the 
flesh, though the friendship was kept up in spirit. Now 
I have a letter from him saying overwork has caused him 
to take a rest and that he is coming North again and 
Avishes me to meet him at some one of our old haunts, 
Avhere we Avill find the best fishing, to try our luck to- 
gether once more. The spirit must have moved him 
.speedily, for soon after his first letter came another, say- 
ing he had been out for black bass in Texas, and I ex- 
tract the folloAving from his letter: "Shortly after writ- 
ing you the other day Col. Cunningham telephoned me 
that the fish had been biting very nicely for the past 
month, and if I did not come out the next day he would 
not invite me any more. I had been promising for three 
or four months to go out to his place, but one thing 
or another had detained me. He said over the telephone 
that he had not permitted any one to fish in Cleveland 
Lake (named for me), because three years ago the Gov- 
ernment had planted some yearling small-mouth black 
bass in the lake at his request, and they had grown into 
big felloAvs, and he Avished me to take the first ones from 
the lake. I ansAvered that I Avould go, and at 9:45 took 
the Southern Pacific for his place, arriving there at 11 
o'clock. The Colonel met me at the station and said it 
was too hot to go out on the Avater then, but he called 
up Frank, his brother, and directed that he should have 
Old Nell hitched to the gig at the front door at 4 o'clock 
to take me to the lake. He also directed Frank to tell 
Parker to have the boat taken out, dried and over- 
hauled, and to take with him his deer-tail bob and teach 
me hoAv to catch fish. Then he directed Jim to take 
several cane pole.s, in case I broke my rod I would have 
something to fish with, and to remain at the lake and 
tote the fish home. You know how the Colonel banters 
fishermen. 
"Promptly at 4 o'clock, after a good dinner and smoking 
three or four cigars each, I got into the gig and was at 
the lake in tAventy minutes. The lake is about three- 
• quarters of a mile long and about 250 or 300 yards wide, 
having high banks and rolling ground and post-oak trees 
on one side, with rather low ground and swamp trees on 
the other. We took the lake about midway of its length 
and did not get a strike. until we reached the lower end. 
About the time that I got into the boat a delightful south- 
east Avind blcAV up, making a few ripples on the surface 
of the water. After I had taken three handsome bass 
the Colonel drove up on the bank in his buggy and asked 
'What success?' I told him to wait a few minutes and 1 
would show him, and in the few minutes I caught two 
other bass, and he asked me to brmg them to the shore 
and he would take them and put them on ice and we 
would have them for supper. Within half an hour after 
the Colonel departed I caught four more bass, and then 
it was about 6 o'clock, and the wind had gone doAvn, and 
I did not get another strike. 
"Bear in mind that I Avas fishing with a new bob, with- 
out name, but very attractiA'e. and using a cane pole, hav- 
ing forgotten my rod after all. I occupied the front of 
the boat, Parker the middle and Frank and Jim occupied 
the rear, using a paddle on either side. I covered the 
ground thoroughly, and Parker did not get a strike, and I 
intended he should not when I started, after the Colonel's 
remarks about showing me how to fish. The five bass 
Aveighed I2j^ pounds, one of them syi. The four that I 
caught later Aveighed 9V2 pounds, one 3 pounds, or a total 
of 22 pounds for the nine fish, which I considered a fine 
catch. 
"I am satisfied that three of these fish were small-mouth 
black bass, and the Colonel says all of the fish were 
planted by the U. S. Fish Commission three years ago. 
Can it be possible that these fish could have reached that 
size Avithin that length of time? I want you to tell me 
for the information of the Colonel and myself." 
It is really amusing to read my friend's letter and see 
that there was actually a bit of doubt in his mind con- 
cerning the species of hass. he caught, in spite of the fact 
that he was "satisfied" that .tliree of them Avere small- 
mouth bass. This is Avhat happens to a man who becomes 
an expert black bass fisherman and then forsakes them 
and Avanders off after strange gods in the form of tarpon. 
There Avas a time when he would have said they were or 
Avere not small-mouth bass, and been right about it, too. 
I had serious doubts myself about there being any small- ' 
mouth bass planted in Texas by the U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion, first because it is doubtful if the Avater is suitable, 
and, second, because Mr. RaVeme told me very recently 
that the U. S. Commissioners distributed exceedingly few 
small-mouth black bass,-and the few in Northern waters; 
but to make sure, I hunted the matter up in the report 
of the U. S. Fish Commission, and find that in 1898 the 
U. S. Fish Commission planted "75 large-mouth black bass 
in Cleveland Lake, Sugarland, Texas," and Sugarland is 
Col. Cunningham's plantation. 
The growth is not uniisual, for the fish were nearly 
four years old, and food in abundance will do wonders in 
growing fish to large size. In Northern waters a pond 
was planted with small-mouth black bass about 4 inches 
long, and in five years from the planting the pond pro- 
