Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-23
ADVICE TO TERRoRS.
Valuable Hints for Boys In Search
of Blood and Glory.
III. Quad Tells Them How to Exterminat.
the Red Man and the Growing
Grizzly-Latest Quotations of
the Bear-Claw Market.

NJ. Quad Tells Them How to Exterminat.
the Red Man and the Growing
Carbohydrates Quotations of
the Bear-Claw Market.
Come, my son, it is time you were gettinA
ready for campaign against the Indians
and grizzlies, suggests NJ Quad, in the De-
troit Free Press. You have been reading
Daring DAN" "Ilze, the Indian-Slayer. ,
"Gus, the Grizzly Killer and other excit-
ing and truthful stories, intended to make
boy dissatisfied with humdrum life, and
your mind is made up to go West.
You must have an outfit. That can be got
while waiting for spring to open. One
reason why so many boy-hunters make
failure is because they economic too much
in the outfit. Don't be stingy in buying
guns. 1t will be all the better if YOU have
Spencer carbine and double-barreled
shotgun TO go with your Winchester. Sup
pose you come suddenly upon a band Of
eighteen Apache warriors. You could
only kill sixteen of them with your Win
chester and two would be left to ride off
and alarm the tribe. By having some ex-
ira guns along you are sure of the whole
crowd, and the tribe won't get onto you.
And don't scrimp on bowie-knives. 1t
would be an almost fatal mistake to start
out with only two. Buy four, at the least.
They are for use at close quarters with
grizzlies OF course, one bowie is enough to
kill one bear with, but you may be attacked
by four bears at once, and four knives
would then be in demand. If you don't get
but three bowies make up the deficiency
with Spanish stiletto or Moorish dagger.
1t will come in handy, not only in close
fight, but to pick your teeth with at the
campfire.
As for dress, get the fringed buckskin, a
coon-sl1n cap and regular moccasins. Such
things as shirts, collars, cuffs or handker-
chiefs would be only waste luggage. If
you should appear in Miles City with a COL
lar on it would give you away at once. No
body would suspect that you were the
Young Terror from the East who was
aching for chance to tie q knot in a griz-
Fly bear tail.
You should take at least two hundred
pounds Of ammunition. You may be coz
rallied somewhere in the Rocky Mountains
by four hundred fierce and determined In
dams, and you don't want to lose your scalp
for the want of few extra cartridges. All
the provisions needed is a sack of jerked
buffalo meat. 1t doesn't make the least bit
of difference whether the buffalo was
jerked off his feet, over precipice, or head
I
it will add to your dignity as hunter You
can chew plug tobacco or pot, Just as you
feel about it, but it would be wisest to
do so. All the champion Terrors chew large
quantities, and the juice comes handy to
spit into rattlesnake's eyes.
Wouldn't take horse if were you. He
would be great deal of trouble to take
care of, and most of your hunting will be
in rough country. The true Terror has
always gone a-foot and always will. Any
body on horseback can make up faces at a
grizzly and gallop off out of reach.
One great mistake which the average boy
makes is in planning to accomplish too
much the first season. Most of them figure
on wiping out about one thousand Indians
and twice that number of bears Keep your
estimates down to a reasonable figure.
You feel ambitious and enthusiastic, of
course, but there is a limit to what a boy
can do. Set your figures at about four
hundred Indians and three hundred griz-
zlies. This will be almost two per day the
year around and will keep you from spoil
ing.
should scalp every Indian / shot. It not
only looks more -business-lilxe to do so, but
that's what you've got a scalpin knife for,
and II you can get about two hundred scalp
locks you can make the incest door-mat you
ever saw. 1t doesn't hurt a dead Indian a
bit TO scalp him, and if you don't take it it
Will go to waste. It would be well to have
six-mule team follow you at the distance
OF mile or so TO pick up and care for the
| rifles, knives, bows and arrows and war
clubs of the slain Indians. These can be run
East by car lots and sold at auction, and
the profits will buy all your ammunition
Don't exterminate any particular tribe of
red men, but kill of about One-fourth of
| seven or eight different tribes. This will
extend your reputation as a Terror.
As to the best way Of killing an Indian 1
shall not pretend to advise Some BOYS
prefer to shoot him, and others believe in
sticking him with knife. If you can catch
him in deep gorge you might drop big
bowlder down on his head. Another way
is to catch him by the foot with lasso and
drag HIM over the earth until his spinal
column is worn down TO a tooth-pick In
any event the fun will be all on your side
It's little different with the grizzly bear
He won't be quite so terror-stricken over
your sudden appearance, being built on a
| different plan. You expect some show of
resistance, however, that you may have op-
portunity to show your pluck. Some of
these pale-faced, weak 1need boys hold a
| grizzly off at long range and fill him up with
bullets, but you will never see their wood
cuts in dime novel. The true Terror will
wind his Mexican serape around his left
arm, hold it out for the bear to chew on,
and, while the beast is busy getting a
| meal, put the bowie-knife into him to the
heart. You will be trifle nervous with
| your first bear but after that it will be as
easy as climbing fence. The claws should
be separated from the skin and sold in a
different lot. The latest quotation on bears
claws is SIC per bushel, and if you can't
average more than two bushels per day you
will still make good thing of it.