, 1886-04-09

spondent. 1t was eagerly accepted, and
day before yesterdays sun found Jack,
the scribe and the dogs threading the pine
thickets of the foothills above Jacks
raneh.f Suddenly the old hunter spoke
low to- his dogs, who instantly came -
heel" Making a motion to the scribe
to crouch low on the ground, old Jack did
likewise, and in a moment there came 10
the ear a faint cracking Of brush. Near T
and nearer it came, growing louder. aud
there suddenly stepped into the little
opening in front oil US a noble black tail
buck. Jack turned his eyes upon the
scribe with a CLEAN hat said shoot
The buckp head was full toward US, the
distance ,hirty yards. and at the crack Of
the rife the animal fell dead in his tracks.
The game was soon dressed and hung up
in a pine tree 10 await our return later in
the day. Another tramp of probably a
couple of miles brought us to some cedar
brakes, much irequonted by the white
tailed deer These animals are much
shyer AID swifter- than their black breth-
rem, and the Staying of one Of them is
quite a hunting feather in the cap Of the
amateur. Stationing the correspondent
at a favorable point, Jack and the
dogs started 90 a circle, Soon was
heard the sharp crack Of his
rife and the dogs gave tongue.
A crashing among the brittle cedar
boughs Just a head told Of coming gan Q
and the scribe soon pulled down OF a fiji e
doe that dashed by. Hard on the
launches of the flying doe came the dogs
and soon Jack himself came up, his long
mountain strides almost equaling the
speed of a horse. He said that he had
shot a fine white tail buck aud that the
doe the scribe had fired ut was the mate.
Just then the receding clamor of the dogs
suddenly ceased altogether and Jack ex-
claimed, Thar, they hey got your
doe" And SO it proved. When we ar
rived the doe was dead, shot through the
body. We now hung her up in a cellar
and going back, performed the same ser
vice for her mate, the puck. Then we
started back 70 where the black tail was
intending to make a dinner from some Of
his juicy tenderloin. When within a few
hundred yards Of the spot the dogs began
to give decided symptoms of uneasiness.
Their bristles rose and low whines proceed
ed from their parted lips Old Jack said
we must be keerful. my boy. Thars
lions around 'Spect they are
after that blacktail. Proceeding
carefully, We gained a covert
ffom whence we could see the carcass OF
the deer Josi then a large lion stalked.
from the brush and placed bis huge paw
upon the body oil the black tail, with a
decided air Of ownership. As he did 30 a
wild scream came from over head, and
from the branches OF the lofty pine there
dropped a second lion. Wasting only a
minute in cycling each other, the savage
beasts rushed together. For some little
time, so dense was the cloud of snow they
stirred, nothing could be seer of the furi-
GUS combatants. Growls, spittings aud
yells resounded, however. At last the
lions were seen. rolling over and over
each other. biting tearing and scratching.
Finally there was Iess noise. Then the
motion played out and when the hunters
approached both hons were dead They
had torn each other nearly in pieces. So
clo-eiy were they Looked together that it
required all OF the hunters united
strength to tear them apart
l SMALLPOX in aggiavated form is reported
from the Shoshone, and Anpahoe reser
sation. 10
The people Of the Big Horn are look
ing for a large settler influx this summer.
Owl creek aud No Wood will be the OIL
jective points About half the land on
Owl creek is still vacant while in the No
Wood country is the Mammoth ditch.
taken out by Colorado capitalists and
covering 2a,O0O acres OF splendid
farming hand torn maturcd finely in
tho Big Horn last year, A great many
farmerzd this section are setting out
Young orhards this spring. at g.
Yesterday there was quite a fall Of
mingled snow and rain.
Thelocation Of the new Lander scerne
terry has been selected.
Last July forty head of work cattle
were spplen frvm Butte. Mont. The
thieves. Pete Hopkins and McFadden.
drove theu to Atlantic City and sold
twenty head u Mr., Ricketts, the Allan
tic butcher Mr. Rockets bulchered two
head Of the cattle and turned the best ouI
on the range A few DAYS ago Sheriff
Sullivan. Q fSiyer Bow county, Montana.
ardyed here On trail of the cattle. 10
sr-ctor epsrhawk accompanied him /,
Atlantic, and il was then ascerainod thai
Hopkins and McFadden we're about Butte
hetnrning to Lander. a dispatch was sem
yesterday ordering the arrest Of the men.
sp~rhtwk and Sullivan are now on III,
range looking for the eighteen head turned
lore BY Rietsts, The cattle are held
mertsAss by a Butte bank