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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, OCTOBER 16, 1908 companion on account of his surly, moody ways. I generally had to got up first, to kindle the fire and make ready breakfast, and he was very quar relsome. Finally, during my absence from camp one day. while not very far from Red Kock pass, be found my whiskey-flask, which I kept purely for emergencies, and drank all the con tents. When I came back he was quite drunk. This was unbearable, aud after some high words I left him, and struck off homeward through the us he OTd so his muscles seemed sud denly to give way, his head drooped and he rolled over and over like a shot rabbit. Each of my first three bullets bad Inflicted a mortal wound. a grizzly! 4r HUNT 1M THEODORE ROOSEVELT 7 . j ICopyrlKhl, ima, by (i. K I'ulnam'a Sou. i'ulllhlnfij under iirriinKfrni'iit with O. P. rutrinm'a Bona, Nc-w Vork and London. out in the late fall or early Hiirlris, It Is often pnsHllilo to follow a U-nr'g trull In tlir know; driving come upon It -ltlier by rlmmr- or hunt hunting, or flsr liming found whore It lenilx from Homo rurcflHg on which the lM'iiHt Iiiih Ihoii feeding. In the pnrHult one uiunt exerclHe great caution, (in at uob times the hunter 1b easily Been n long way ofT, and game Is always enpeelally watchful for any foe that may follow Its trull. . Once I killed a grisly In this manner. It was enrly in the fall, but snow lay A illght whistU brought him to a Hand. on the ground, while the gray weather boded a storm. My camp was In a bleuk, wtud swept valley, high among the mountains which form the divide between the head waters of the Balmon and Clarke'a Fork of the Columbia. At dawn I rose and shook myself free of the buffalo robe, coated with boar- frost. The ashes of the Ore were life less; In the dim morning the air was bitter cold. I did not linger a moment, but Hatched up my rifle, pulled on fnj fur cap and gloves, and strode off up a side ravine; as I walked I ate some mouthful of venison, left over from supper. Two hours of toll up the steep moun tain brought mo to the top of a spur. The suu had risen, but was hidden be hind a bank of sullen clouds. Un the divide I hailed, and gazed out over a vast landnrape. Inconceivably wild and dismal. For two hours 1 walked on wards across the ridges and valleys. Then aiming some scattered spruces, where the snow lay to the depth of half a foot, I suddenly came on the fresh, broad trail of a grisly. The brute was evidently roaming restlessly about in search of a whiter den. but willing, In passing, to pick up any food that lay bandy. At once I took the trail, travelling above and to one side, and keeping a sharp look-out ahead. The bear was going across wind, and this made my task easy. I walked rapidly, though cautiously. At last, peeriug cautiously over a ridge crowned with broken rocks, I aw my quurry. a big, burly bear, with Uvered fur. lie had halted on ao open hill side, and was busily digging up the caches of some rook gophers or squirrels. He seemed absorbed In his work, and the stalk was easy. Slip ping quietly back, I ran towards the end of the spur, aud In ten minutes struck a ravine, of which one branch ran pant within seventy yards of where the bear was working. In this ravine was a rather close growth of stunted evergreens, affording good cover, al though In one or two place 1 bad to lie down aud crawl through the snow. When I reached the point for which I was aiming, the bear had Just finished rooting, and was starting off. A sllgUt whistle brought him to a standstill, and 1 drew a bead behind his shoulder and low down, resting the rifle across the crooked branch of a dwarf spruce. At the crack he ran off at speed, mak ing no sound, but the thick simtter of Wool splashes, showing clear on the white suow, betrayed the mortal na ture of the wound. For seme minutes I followed the trail; and then, topplug ridge, I saw the dark bulk lying moth.utoss in a snow drift at the foot of a low rock wall down which he had tumbled. une day while camped uear the Bit made up my mind to try to get a shot at It that afternoon. I stayed In camp till about three o'clock, lying lazily back on the bed of sweet-smelling ever green boughs, watching the pack po nies as they stood under the pines on the edge of the open, stamping now and then, and switching their tails The air was still, the sky a glorious blue; at that hour In the afternoon even the September sun was hot. When the shadows began to length en, I shouldered my rifle and plunged Into the woods. At first my route lay along a mountain side; then for half a mile over a windfall, the dead timber piled about In crazy confusion. After that 1 went up the bottom of a valley by a little brook, the ground belug carpeted with a sponge of soaked moss. At the bead of this brook was a pond covered with water lilies; and a scram ble through a rocky pass took me Into a high, wet valley, where the thick growth of spruce was broken by occa slonal strips of meadow. In this valley the moose carcass lay, well at the up per end. In moccaslned feet I trod softly through the soundless woods. Under the dark branches It was already dusk. and the air had the cool chill of even ing. As I neared the clump where the body lay I walked with redoubled cau tion, watching and listening with strained alertness. Then I beard a twig snap; aud my blood leaped, for I knew the bear was at his supper. In another moment I saw bis shaggy brown form. He was working with all his awkward giant strength, trying to bury the carcass, twisting It to one side and the other with wonderful ease. One he got angry and suddenly gave it a tremendous cuff with bis paw; In his bearing he bad something half hu morous, half devilish. I crept up with in forty yard; but for several minute ha would not keep his head still. Then something attracted hi attention in the forest, and be stood motionless looking toward It, broadside to me, with hi fore-paw planted on the car cass. This gave me my chance. I drew a very fine bead between bis eye and ear, and pulled trigger. He drop ped like a steer when struck with a pole-axe. If there I good hiding-place bandy It I better to lie In wait at the car cass. One day on the head-water of the Madison, I found that a bear waa coming to an elk I had shot some day before; and I at once determined to ambush the beast when he came back that evening. The carcass lay In the middle of a valley a quarter of a mile broad. The bottom of this valley was covered by an open forest of tail pines; a thick Jungle of smaller ever greens marked where the mountains rose on either hand. There were a number of large rocks scattered here and there, one, of very convenient shape, belug only some seventy or eighty yards from the carcass. Up this I clambered. It hid me perfectly, and on Its top was a carpet of soft pine needles, on which I could lie at my ease. Hour after hour passed by. Every slight noise made my puhiea throb a I lay motionless on the rock gazing Intently lirto the gathering gloom. I began to fear that It would grow too dark to shoot before the grisly came. Suddenly aud without warning, the great bear stepped out of the bushes aud trod across the pine needle with such swift and slleut footsteps that Its bulk seemed uureal. It was very cau tious, couUnually halting to peer around; and once It stood up on its hind legs and looked long down the valley towards the red west As It roached the carcass I put a bullet be tween It shoulders. It rolled over. while the wood resounded with It savage roarlug. Immediately it strug gled to Its feet and staggered off; and fell again to the next shot, squalling and jelling, Twice this was repeated; the brute Mug one of those bears which greot every wound with a gtvat outcry, and sometimes seem to l.we their feet wheu hlt-althoiigh they will occasionally fight ns savagely as their more silent brethren. In this case the wounds were mortal, and the bear died before reaching the edge of the thicket I spent much of the fall of 1880 nuuting on the head-waters of the Salmon ml Snake In Idaho and along the Montana boundary line from the Klg Hole Itnsln and the bead of the Wisdom Ulver to the neighborhood of Red Hock Tass aud to the north and i llt nuul vrt"iu tht o'ow nt m. west of Henry's Uke. During the last j "mashing his lower Jaw and going Into ...... .K..i uij tompamou was tne om iue uecg. i leaped to one side almost mountain man. named Urlffeth or as I pulled trigger; aud through the Urimn-I cannot tell which, as he was hanging smoke the Brat thing I saw always called either "Hank" or was his paw as he made a vicious side "Orift " He was a crabbedly honest j blow at me. The rush of bis charge old fellow, aud a very skilful huuter; i carried him pHst. u be struck he but be was worn out with age and : lurched forward, leaving a pool 0f -". " ii-motr una raiieu origin mood where his muzzle Mr ih. woods on my own account We bad with us four pack and saddle horses; and of these I took a very Intelligent and gentle little bronco mare, which possessed the Invaluable trait of al ways Btaylng near camp, even when not hobbled. I was not hampered with much of an outfit, having only my buffalo sleeping-bag, a fur coat, and my washing kit with a couple of spare pairs of socks and some hand kerchiefs. I walked, while the little mare followed almost like a dog, often without my having hold the larlut which served as baiter. As dusk was coming on I baited and camped In a little open spot by the side of a small, noisy brook, with crys tal water. I opened the pack, tossed the bedding on a smooth spot knee haltered the little mare, dragged up a few dry logs, and then strolled off, rifle on shoulder, through the frosty gloaming, to see If I could pick up a grouse for supper. As I was thinking of turning towards camp, I stole up to the crest of one of the ridges, and looked over Into the valley gome sixty yards off. Immedi ately I caught the loom of some large. durk object; and another glance show ed me a big grisly walkiug slowly off with his head down. He was quarter ing to me, und I fired Into bis flunk, the bullet, as I afterwards found, ranging downward and piercing one lung. At the shot be uttered n loud, moaning grunt and plunged forward at heavy gallop, while I raced oblique ly down the hill to cut blm off. After going a few hundred feet he reached laurel thicket, some thirty yards broad, and two or three time as long which he did not leave, r ran up' to the edge and there halted, not liking to venture Into the mass of twisted. close-growing stems and glossy foil- age. Moreover, as I halted. I heard him utter a peculiar, savage kind of whine from the heart of the brush. Accordingly, I began to skirt the edge, Standing on tiptoe and gazing earnest ly to see If I could not catch a glimpse of his hide. Whep I was at the nar rowest part of the thicket be sud denly left It directly opposite, and then wheeled and stood broadside to me on the hill side, a little above. He turned his head stiffly towards me; scarlet strings of froth hung from hi lips; his eyes burned like ember In the gloom. I held true, aiming behind the shoul der, and my bullet shattered the point or lower end of his heart, taking out big nick. Instantly the great bear turned with n harsh roar of fury and challenge, blowing the bloody foam from his mouth, so that I saw the gleam of his white fangs; and then he hurged straight at me, crashing and bounding through the laurel bushes. so that It was bard to aim. I waited ntll be came to a fallen tree, raking him as he topped It with a ball, which entered his chest and went through the cavity of his body, but he neither swerved nor flinched, and at the mo ment I did not know that I had struck him. He came steadily on, aud in another second was almost upon me, 1 fired for his forehead, but my bul let went low. entering his open mouth, OREGON FARMERS WANT A CHANGE OF LAW Believe They Should He-v R ght jo Kill Game Withont Re gard to Season, 1 lor Root Mountains In Moutana I found pn f:,!,,or th"u hl" b,Hlll.T "rength. ' P'iind: but he recovered himself and -"T " hn-nw-i iniieiT or mailt two ir r I, p.... i. - - i - jumps ouwaros. mm iHar had ts-en feeding on the enrout. of a moose which lay some five wiles from the little ohii glade In which my tent was idtrli.M nn.1 I ?mr "T 1 eT"r " 1 " 1 hurriedly jammed a couple of short a time nor did I ever before or ! cart. Idges into the magazine my rifle after make so successful a hunt. But ' holding only four, a!! of which 1 h',,1 he was an exceodltiir'v ,li,inu.i,u i ni tk.. .. . . . . ' nj'1 was an exceedingly dlsngrwable ' tired. Thenjie tried to pull Linn County farmers have started a movement which will undoubtedly be popular with the farmers of Jose phine and other counties in Ore gon. They desire to have the state game laws so amended as to allow the killing of game birds withont regard to the season by farmers, fruit-growers and gardeners. The matter was taken tip at a meeting of the Linn County Conncil of the Grange aud thoroughly discussed and afterwards referred to the various granges of the state. The main purpose of the movement la not to allow the farmers the privi lege of general hunting out of season, as they are perfectly willing to wait ontil the proper time for that pleas ure bnt they say that the birds have oome so numerous as to destroy a con siderable amount of grain, fruits and garden truek This is also trne of deer, as they are nearly always found in the grain fields early in the epilog. The farmers are also complaining of the damage done to property. by banters who go throngh the country, ehooting at everything in sight aud trampling down giain and other farm products, and this question came np for dis cussion at the Linn county meeting. To cover the matters, tbe following amendmentsto tbe existing game laws were suggested : To permit the killing of game birds and game animals without regard to season when fonnd in growing crops, the killing to be done only by the owners of thefarm, orchard or garden where the birds are found, and the owner to bave the right to use the birds so killed for food, bnt for no other purpose; requiring a heavier license for non resident hunters; re quiring all hunters to carry a written permit to hunt from the owner of tbe land traversed; to put a tax upon all gnus and dogs except those kept by the farmers, tbe gun and dogs of the latter to be kept for protection from ravages of same birds only and not for promiscuous hunting. While the farm folk generally will be apt to favor the j reposed ohanges, they will undoubtedly be opposed by city hunters. tJiamberlain's Cough llemedy tho Most Popular Uecause it Is the Best. 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