The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-23
IT WAS MURDER MOST FOUL.
Scores Of AntelOpes Surrounded
and Shot.

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Leaving reserve party behind them
at ths lower or broader opening of tn,
valley,a majority of the bucks, mounted
on swift and hardy cayuses, armed
| with repeating Winchesters Except II
one or two cases, ehere these plains
hunters carried the almost as deadly
long bow, yelling and whooping, and
in fact. making enough noise to waksr
the seven slseperd, this band of eager
sportsmeD, in answer TO the signal
dashed psll-mell at the astonished an
telopes, and long before coming within
range had started the latter on mad
run up the valley. Once having got
them well undsr way, the braves re-
turned to the reserve party and awaited
results. On rushed the whole mass of
| Heeing creatures, rpeeaing like the
very wind, and never pausing or stop
ping 10 consider matters until they
we're almost out of sight, and at tn
upper end OF thevalley. great cloud
OF dust hung in the air, kicked up by
the thousands of nimble hoofs that
SCARF ely touched the ground, and which
served to hid them from the watchers
and walters behind them. As the val
ley narrowed, Of course the crowd OF
antelopes was compelled to run closer,
and pretty soon there vas so much of a
jam by reason of the confined space.
and number of the quadrupeds that
locomotion by them became slow and
well-nigh Impossible. Then it was that
the hidden bucks jumped from their
cencealment and slaughtered the game
right and left. Down fell animal after
animal, until the whole baud, taking
upon themselves new alright, be-
came worse stampeded than ever.
damned in between the precipices of
the Yellowstone on one hand. the i'm
pasSable bluffs on the other, a dense
growth OF timber and shooting Indians
in front of them, there was but one
means OF escape-to the rear, and by
tpe route they had come. What
wonder, then, that the rearmost be-
came leaders in turn and the fright
ened animals went directly back over
the course they had come FIVE minutes
betore? Down the valley again. he'll
ter-sgelter, sped the crowd of fright
ened animals right back into the laws
of death, whence they had escaped q
few minutes previous. t Band No. 2
was cooked and primsd ready to re-
celye them. In fact, the Indians rode
out into the plains and met the ap-
preaching multitude half way. The
antelopes paused in beWliderment. but
the bucks were among them in a twink
ling; SO, turning again, up the valley
they went onec more and directly into
the trap Which had proved their first
Waterloo. After awhile the frightened
creatures ceased to have method in
their Madness" and so sought n cans
OF. escape as best they could. Some
plunged from the cut banks into the,
waters of the Yellowstone, and made
their way out of difficulties in that way.
1t was a risky leap, but they accom-
plished it in safety, without a single
one of them, believe, being Injured
by the rocks. Other scaled the steep
bluffs and butses, while the majority of
them ran the gauntlet SUGGEST ully, or
else managed TO find means of escape
bv taking to The timber. There was a
great deal of meat secured, end il is
only fair to say that not pound of it
was Wasted. The Indians, as a rule.
suosistei upon game in those days, ard
a fall hunt was with them not only
their great annual sport, but also a
positive necessity fer the purpose of
laying up supplies for the winter.