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,
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