The Arizona champion., 1889-11-16
THE NiME0D.5 FEAST.
A Buck with .Crumpled Horn and a
 Bone Play Prominent Part,

l On November 4th, when Aurora woke up from her slumber and was seen in all her glory on the eastern
 horizon, three dicipies of Nimrod
 left our town and proceeded to the
 mountains in quest of the noble deer and other game which would like to
 be interviewed. These hunters, Mir. Vim Morris, of Flagstaff; Mr. J. H. Coult, of Los Gatos, Cal; and Mr.
 W. J. Mayer, of Missouri, after a successful and historical hunt, re
 turned last Saturday evening with
 six deer sad two fine turkeys, all killed by themselves On Sunday number of Fltgstaf dinner tables
 were decorated with juicy venison,
 donated by these kind heal ted gentlemen.
 In tite HoSei Del Monte tie festive board was spread, and no
 table was so heavily laden and well
 surrounded as the one where the following named gentlemen took
 their seats to await the goods the
 Nimrods had provided, they were
 Messrs, J. II. CouIt, ". J. Mayer,
 Wn,. Morris, Dr. ?. G. Cornish; W. J. Murphy, c, II. Schulz, R. II.
 Cameron, q. A. Bray, David Dab-
 Uitt. Ii. A. Carley, J. 4. Brown and G. H. Cook. The table was finally
 supplied with a 20 pound turkey and one half Of fine large buck,
 and the gentlemen gave credit to
 those de!icacies for which they had
 assembled on Monday afternoon.
 The above mentioned buck hal
 recnliar attraction, es le was bo:n
 ~itll a ct,c;s,Ll,I Ilora. Witt &his
 b1ck one of the hunters i,ad |, start- ling exregisnce. The animal moving
 leisureiy along, not knowing his fate aad that he was f''!lo" ed by such . good hunter as Mir. Coult, who fnaIly ?ut d bullet through the no:!; of tlre king of the forrest, aud then gave up the chase. AfG,r he r,sta,l Il while he looked around and foand that he was at the stone quarry and tlking lis bearings he discovered that he was several miles from lass Gll0w hunters, wIso were near the! C!ii' D~' Hers. 1 vision of the S13j s!leep asad 3 cowmen, who froH. t3 death in New Mexico re- ecutiY, c;,l:e rp before liiin in all its hnir"r~- Tine question occuleA to him "how am to get blek to cami'?'' He Was just ready to settle down and await Lis awful fate as kindly faced ,nQn with two h2rses annenred ia si:.At, and CCuit ae nnee took Gle l opportunity and offered the man 8 ] if ie would pilot him back to cenf- What will s of Uncie Sa1n's m0rey not do fer q aan lost ia ArizoHa! ] Mr- Couit was safely lande,l among bis feiicx hunters, bat ;Inasiipe his surprise w 1a.e i,nar camp i,e saw Che crUmple horned buck (which he sup l posed was left at the quairy) bieat- ing at Morris. Coult, being disap- pointed at not How able to tall his thrilling experience to his com1ads, dispatched Ji.e buck with his knife.
 The hals of said buck attracted much attention at the above men tiuned dianer, which @lr. Morris gave in honor of the prcdigal hunt ters ICoult and Maye3 llr. Morris Is so constructed that ile n:ust tell stories a contest was Immediately begun between lsisa and Mr. Bray Tine former, at the cad of his f1st tale, was designated Ly his friends The Elongator;" his story was that tiIe woods around FIas sstatf would noe contain at present as much game as 1t clees, lad he not been de c 'ived in his gua, which was left handed aad he used a right handed gun, which necessitated his getting on the wrong side of tree whenever he saw a deer.
 After that it was Mr. Bray's turn, and he told many good story of an amusing nature, but all wall not l kear repetition here, but we state that Bray was knocked out and the 1 Bone" awarded to ''The Elongator" in an appropriate speech made by Dr. P. G. Cornish. Geo H. Cook, l being so elated over the defeat of his 1 friend Bray that he carried tie bone away with hitn as memento and put it on exhibition in the post office where it c&n be seen at any l time.