May 22, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
835 
Pistol medal shoot: 
A B Douglas. 
C W Linder. 
H D Thaxter. 
Dr L M Packard.... 
T E Holcomb. 
1 C Douglas. 
87 88 95—270 
89 85 86—260 
83 83 86—252 
84 81 85—250 
88 76 83—247 
85 72 85-242 
The following practice scores were also made the same 
day: 
Revolver, 50yds.: Oscar Lillemo 87, 81, 75. 
The annual meeting of the club was held Friday even¬ 
ing, May 7, and the following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year: President, H. D. Thaxter; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, Dr. L. M. Packard; Secretary, Irving C. Douglas, 
Treasurer, Arthur B. Douglas; Range Master, Will A. 
Wright. 
The secretary’s address is 233 N. Eastlake avenue, Los 
Angeles, Cal. 
I. C. Douglas, Sec’y. 
Rifle Note. 
We have received the official report of the interschol¬ 
astic match for the team gallery _ championship of the 
United States, of which the Morris High School team, 
of New York, was the winner, with a total of 953. Thirty- 
seven schools entered teams, of which thirty-one com¬ 
peted and reported. The scores of three teams were dis¬ 
allowed, which reduced the total number of contestants 
to twenty-seven. The Manual Training High School, of 
Brooklyn, was second with 941. Culver Military Acad¬ 
emy (first team). Culver. Ind.. was third with 931. 
THE LION-CATCHER. 
“I WANT a mountain lion,” said Kit Carson 
to me, “and you are the man to get him.” That 
was because I, Juan Sanchez, had been Kit Car¬ 
son’s favorite scout all through our great war 
with the Navajos. You have heard, sehor, how 
we tamed those wild savages, and brought their 
nation away from their own mountains and took 
them captive over to Bosque Redondo on the 
Pecos. 
“You shall have the lion, my captain,” I an¬ 
swered him. “I will find a lioness with cubs 
and kill her, and then I will bring up her cubs 
for you, and you shall have them just as tame 
3S C3.tS 
“But,” said Kit Carson, “that is not what I 
want at all. You must get me a big lion, now, 
at once, all alive and as cross as the fiend, but 
with his claws clipped and his jaws muzzled, and 
a collar round his neck. I am going to send 
him to the President at Washington, to show 
him just how we have brought the Navajos for 
him to Bosque Redondo, well tamed.” 
“That is a hard task, my captain,” I answered 
him, “but maybe Juan Sanchez can do it for 
you. Give me one week and you shall have your 
lion, or maybe I will be meat for the lion’s 
cubs.” 
So I left him and considered my plans. I 
called to my two sons, Mauricio and Alejandro, 
and we got on our horses and took our lassoes 
with us, and we rode to the Indian pueblo of 
Cochiti, by the Rio Grande, for I knew that 
there were many lions in the canon of the Rio 
Grahde above Cochiti, and the Cochiti Indians 
had helped us against the Navajos. So I asked 
the cacique of their pueblo if he could also help 
me in this thing. “You know well that I can,” 
said the cacique, “for you know that in this 
pueblo we have the brothers of the Hons who 
belong to the Mokatsh Hanutsh.” That, sefior, 
is a name they give to a great family of the 
Indians who say that their great-great-grand- 
father was a lion. 
Accordingly the cacique sent the Indian who 
was head of the family of the lion to help us, 
and he led us by a long trail up on to the high 
mesa west of the Rio (jrande where in the old 
days the Navajos used to lie in wait to kill 
the Indians of Cochiti and the other pueblos. 
And there he showed us two lions cut in black 
stone, which are idols of the Indians that have 
been there ever since the time of Cortez and 
Montezuma, and we stood a little way off while 
he talked to his idols in his own tongue and 
poured sacred corn meal over them, perform¬ 
ing his idolatrous rites and asking them to show 
him quickly one of their wild brothers, and not 
to be angry if he caught him alive and carried 
him away to another country. This is a sort 
of witchcraft that the Indians use, and after¬ 
ward we four rode along the mesa, and the two 
dogs of the Indian smelled about everywhere 
for the scent of a lion. I partly believe those 
idols must have listened to the Indian’s prayers. 
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