Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-17

Methods Used by Apache Hunters In
Pursuing Game.

IAN Apache hunter scorns to fire twice at the
| same deer, but 1t is also his code that no deer
must De permitted TO escape after it has been
snot AT ana missed" said an old resident of the
| far west to correspondent of the New York
| 4udH and cypress. "If the hunter fails to check
his game at the first fire, he must run it down
| and be in at the death. And in this he never
| ialis, ior when an Apache starts on the trail of
marked deer. he never leaves it, unless he sus-
talns an injury on the way that incapacitates
| him, until he tires it out and returns
Win Its carcass to his wigwam. As the deer
| starts away in its fright at the sight OF the
or forty feet at every sound, the Indian throws
ms gun on the ground, and, with piercing yells,
hunter far behind. putting forth its greatest
efforts to get tar beyond his reach. But no mat
Ter now fast the deer may reel off the miles be-
pam 10 the hunter as If it were marked in
chalk all the way. A deer is the most
tne same time possesses an amazing amount
VI curiosity. After 1T has placed dis
lance lance between itself and the Immediate
danger from which it fed, it stops and
awaits further developments. The Apache
hunter well knows this characteristic of the
deer, and he joys along at Neutrality-suspicious.
gait, never tagging, never stopping. At sight
or sound OF the approaching hunter the deer
bounds on again to run a mile or two and stops
again. 1t Is these haltS that the first fatal
steps: The halts are not long enough to give
the deer beneficial rest, but on the contrary
start the leaps grow shorter, and the deer starts
away reluctantly and with decreasing activity
The Indian joys along ON the trail, main tanning
uniform rate OF speed. He can keep it up
without stopping for six hours, If necessary.
Alter two or three hours running the deer be-
gins To look Tor water to Quench it's thirst,
w hen this stage OF the chase is reached the
hunter knows that the deers doom is sealed
Alter the deer once drinks there is no hope tof
IT, IL nils its paTched stomach with water and
iaueh with the burden, its leaps grow still
shorter and are made laboriously. Ii before
drinking the deer made its halts al intervals of
mile.
IAN hour SO after the Indian has discoy-
ereu tnat the deer has filled it's stomach with
water ne begins To examine the trail more care
iully as ne runs, Tor he knows that it is then
time Tor him to lind signs of the deers exhaus-
lon drop of blood mere and there along the
trali indicates To the Indian that the deer has
fallen on Its knees at those spots u bunch OF
hs,lr hanging to a projecting edge of rock or
sharp branch hanging low across the trail
proves that the deers strength has failed
sd that II cannot turn quickly out OF the
way of obstacles When these infnllible
signs vi the deer's approaching doom are found
by the hunter he increases his speed for the
lir>t Time. lie soon discovers the game and
with ayell of triumph bounds forward The
CTy Sttrtlcs The falling animal to a momentary
ourst Oh speed After Il leap two ii stops AS
ii aroused TO the TACT that further efforts to es-
cape We're utterly futile, it turns and faces It's
puTsuer With all the defiance its eX hausted Ma.
lure Will permit. Tie hunter knows The ami
boldly, throws it TO the ground and cuts its
throat $3.50 ~