The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-03

took the men back To their quarters:
still continued. The weather was 40 in
quarters and no attempt wa. made to
"On the following day ! sent out Bar
they worked. and provided the C.orean
san-cheng, or t~ivcr-hunter, with q lance,
and set him also To act as a guard Tor the
sIn stationinR thcse guards, I felt that
had taken all practicable prycautions
for the safety of the men in my charge. 1
was not AT liberty tn withdraw them from
the work. Barrows was armed with an
was the only gun al the mill, except two
or three Japanese hint-locks which were
not to he relied ON;
they worked In the forest, and a score OF
other times during every day while at
shout OF Tue, tnc. tie,' To frishten away
the tigers. At all hours of the day | heard
this strange Chant through the wintry sob
itudes, blending with the sound OF their
"a week or two passed with no fresh
annrd in sSe SHOW. and 1 allowed the san.
scheng. at his own request, tai resume his
axe. Il was only by a constant exercise
Srs S%'''f He ya snas /. di lie S Ss"aI traits Ms' Of ' as
English sailor, and held Coreans ~ slight
s sss1'n as isnS,h n so far sr', reia.ea h ss" WisiianS::
as to take his blankets with him into the
forest and spend the time mapping i'm front
GAS evening was approaching. one day
early I'm january, n large tiger emerged
from "a thicket about % Yards from the
the creature before he was among them,
sn' y ssirs' 81 r" n x,s''% and I x sa:'h b "Sa:.
ing away ~. with ,,u the ss.,, ana d ~ it's
loud outcries. Barrows fired an ineffect-
ual shot ut the animal and chased il for a
short distance. Some Of the leaps made
lance OF over four yards, as I afterwards
found ny measurements.
~ was at the lumber yards below the
mill experimenting the loading OF a junk
MT the time of this second foray and before
l could organic n SrisYing party dark,
nsn;c nau in their quarter. and 1
saw that they would he useless as laborers
until the tiger that had twice assailcd
''It was easy to discern the creatures
track i'm the snow, which was now nearly
two feet i1 dsp.h maxim" Kim IT difficult to
SNOW shoe made of thin, tough, hard wood.
which they gave the name OF scl-mai, and
pairs OF these native rackets, which they
finished that night.
"Mcanwhilc, I consulted with Barrows
and three or four of the more intelligent
among the Japanese mill men. and the re-
suit was that we started q bunting party
;n%s r'if "i wns s scnrce,x .n q OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s1niIk
party-it resembled rather ~ forlorn hope
and although ! had picked out the pluck.
see that some of them had very little
heart for the business before them.
I've wsrs PT Esrd y %r1 me-. Tor s.cn am
ried fiint-lock gums, and Barrows had his
carbine. The other men, to the number
with am AK and my revolver.
w followed the track of the tiger,
which was stained at intervals with the
/ h1r~S1 80 hss x.s<tssvp FOR n1pnsrf tnr<n spps1x,n
first mp the valley Of the river, then ACROSS
a mountain ridge heavily wooded with
II was evident that his entire region, now
covered with n dense forest, had once been
inhabited, for fragments Of the old wall of
stone house and temples were plainly dis
cerniblc through the SNOW, and OCCASION
ally an old ruin of considerable size
ioometl among the dark bo'ighs OF the
"A~scending the farther side Of the val
ley, the six or seven JAPANESE. who were
where the trail ended near ~ large, irreRn
larly-shapsl aperatlre i'm n manner of old
masonry WHICH had formed part of the
front wall of q high. artificial terrace.
This opening, which was six ar eight feet
above the surface of the ground, led back
into N dark hole or cavern.
''In front of this cavern u large drift
had formed, nearly AS hig as the bottom
of the opening; hat the eddyinR wind had
whirlcd the SNOW outward, leaving AN
open space more than two yards wide he-
tween the crest of the drift and the hole.
| i ne tiger nnu tOtlnucu IrO1h the ur1It 10
the aperture in the wall. The blood
stains on the SNOW showed where the
creature had laid it's burden down, to So
cure "a iirmcr hold upon il before making
the leap.
"At the crest of the drift the Japanese
stopped. and one of them turned back to
meet us, eujoining silince. according To
their custom, by raising his hands. Bar
rows and l had just halted fifty yards bs-
low the drift to hear his account, when,
with "a growl which we plainly heard. the
great striped brute emerged from the den
ancse on the snOw-tirift.
"They shouted; one of them discharged
his 1int-lock, then the whole group, with
the mainH-ho on top. went downwarI to-
gcther twenty feet Ia the foot of the drift.
Hampcrcd AS they wers. 10y their snow
shoes, the men could do little tai help
themselves.
1.-THE tigers attention was fixed upon
il seized 10y the hip. Ii had turned tai car.
the Japanese, who lay i'm the SHOW partly
under the tiger, cut desperately with u
dagger at the animals belly,and laid open
"a fearful cash. I saw the flash Of the fell
lows knife as Barrows and I hurried for
ward tai get u shot at the tiger.
"withont relinQuishing it's hold on the
man the mainn-ho boundeh hack ZAP the
drift, but bcfore reaching the top il lost it's
| grip. and stopped short, IL crimson stream
pouring from It's wound.
AT a distance of thirty ar forty feet
from the animal Barrows and l free. The
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