Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-18
NOVEL METHOD OF FISHING.

HOW NOftnWe8LeFn 4nQtanB eaten Trout and Salmon by Diving. From Forest and Stream.1
 The two Indians were going to show us their method of catching trout and salmon \ The stream runs between steep mountains l is very rocky and the current swift. The I water was ice cold, and as clear as crystal I It was alive with small trout and the big holes were well filled with salmon o, salmon trout, ranging from five to twelve pounds. How did ache for my split bam- boo, which had foolishly left down in the valley. These fish, from the smallest to the largest, would take the fly on auy kind of bait readily.
 Steiger proved this by losing fly hooks to two big fellows, but &e captured nice lot of the smaller ones, ranging from half a pound down. He stopped when he had enough, but verify believe 800 could be taken in day by the industrious and un- scrupulous trout hog. The Indians were fishing for themselves, and of course we could not prevent them ftom using their regular methods of taking all the fish in their power which they salt and fry for future use. While not sportsmaulike, it was decidedly interesting.
 They first select suitable hole with fish
  about 200 yards long, thirty feet wide, and varying in depth to ten feet. At the bottom lazily swimming around were a number of big fish. From 8 sack Johnny produced two light gill nets, which were stretched across | the stream about forty yards apart. Then he produced the tips of spear, which were bound to strong willow pole. These tips, when thrust into fish, come off the pole, but are held by buckskin strips. Now we are ready for business. Rocks are thrown into the water and the startled fish dart about, and in 8 moment the floats of net are jerked violently under the water. The fish writhes and twists, tangling himself up hopslessly, and is soon taken out by his dusky captors. Sometimes heavy fish would break the net and escape, but not often. After 8 number had been caught this way, the frightened fish hid under the rocks and several being taken. On receiving the barbs they would struggle violently, and, being | hauled out by main strength and awkward l ness, would make good fight.
 Most of the big fish had now taken refuge
 under large rocks in the deepest part, and were clear out of sight. Then one of the Indians stripped off, and with a small ne eighteen inches in diameter, in the mouth of which vas bent willow pole, making it resemble the ordinary landing net, he slipped quietly into the almost freezing cold water and disappeared under Q large rock. l held my breath in amazement, and after he had been underneath nearly a minute I con eluded he had drowned. But no; away down @ dark mass came slowly out and quickly rose to surface. With snort his head popped up, while in the net under his arm 8 twelve-pound fish was struggling. | He crawled out shivering, and after a sun bath was ready for another plunge. Along the bank for thirty feet was a shelving rock under which several fish had Ia frOr fashion, the Indian cleared it out at one dive, catching one fish and driving out the ! rest.
 Thus they kept at work, until, after about | three hours work, not fish was left in the ! hole that would weigh as much as a pound,
 They caught about 4oO pounds of fresh fish, on this trip. During the height of the fish, I ing season the Indians from the reservation visit this stream by tribes, and for miles entirely clear the river of fish. They are also quite expert with hook and line, using veni- SOD for bait. MT. Steiger presented one of them with number of handsome fly hooks. 1 He looked at them in comical way, then I took out his knife. and deliberately trimmed | the fly of, saying that he s'didn't care for any of those new fxin's; venison was good 1 enough for him for bait"
 BEARS KILLED BY THE COLD.
 The singular Story of zgCoIorado man | who was Alone with Freezing Beasts. 1 From the Denver News.l l Ranchman J. 0. Schiles will probaly never forget an experience he had at his ranch near | piedra Parade. during the cold spell in Janu- ary. MT. Schiles only went in last summer,
 and has comfortable little house under the shelter of the foothills. The weather preced- | ing the cold spell in January, he says, had
 been beautiful, and he was out on the range | every day. On Jan. 13 it began to get cold,
 and the theymometer dropped 46 degrees | above zero to 15 degrees below. On the fol- lowing day it went down with lightning rap | iditly, and his spirit thermometer showed 3e | degrees below at nightfall. Each day for g ! week was colder, and the lowest point attain ed by the mercury was. if his thermometer was accurate, 58 degrees, which was noted in I the afternoon of Jan. IT.
 MT. Schiles for four days did not leave the house. On the opening of the third cold day | he noticed that bear and deer, which had been 1 unusually plentiful during the winter began