The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-12-10

A Party From the American Gun
Club, New York, to spend the
Winter on a Hunt.


ward over the Pennsylvania road next
week, says the New York World OF
December 3rd, under the guidance OF
Capt. Harry Horne. border man,
pioneer, scout, soldier, hunter and
ex Oklahoma boomer. Who will
compose it is yet a secret, known only
to the guide and the fifteen members
of the company. who all belong to the
American Gun Club and are we'll
known New Workers, with the long
est of pocketbooks. They are going
to the Indian Territory to kill deer,
rabbits, quail and what not. They
are going equipped with horses, dogs,
guns, ammunition, fishing tackle, cor
duroy clothes and sombreros. with
cooks and cooking utensils and fun.
keys in extraordinary. They are GO
ing prepared for a long stay, expect
ing not to see Now York again before
the middle of April.
Proceeding to st. Louis, thence 60
er the Missouri Pacific to Sedalia,
thence by the NJ. K. & T. to Arkan-
sas City, the nimrods will take horse
to ride $50 miles southwark into the
hunting grounds. The broncos they
are to ride cost $50 a head and
are now in Arkansas City, where
"Buckskin Joe" Horton, the deputy
sheriff, gives them canter every day
to keep them in fix for the eastern
riders. The saddles are of the Collins
make, double-cinch California saddles,
and each equipped with Winchester
repeating rife and Colts revolver,
while every man is to carry his own
shotgun. They will be wild, border
looking set, these hunters who can't
60 hunting without two chefs and fif-
teen valels.
"The hunting shirts" said Capt.
Horne to reporter, "are to be of cor
duroy, inlined with heavy blanket
material, making each shirt weigh
about eight pounds. The trousers
will be made up liz the same fashion,
and a twelve-dollar sombrero and
Hessian boots will complete the outfit,
which altogether will cost from $50 to
500. They are not too heavy, either.
Three weeks ago there was six inches
of snow all over the state of Kansas. l"
"What are the estimated expenses
fo each man on the trip 7"
"About 81 $50 for necessary ex-
penses. Everything that could be
sent on ahead has been forwaded to
Arkansas City. Leaving here Tues
day we will be in the hunting grounds
by Tuesday following.
"Among the camp equipments will
be the tops of four cooking ranges.
but for the first week the hunters will
eat mighty little game unless some
body else shoots it. All that they
bag themselves is to be turned in to a
common mess to decide a wager which
has been made in the Gun Club, of
$4,000 a side. that the fifteen hunters
will not, without the help of the
guides, kill deer enough within two
weeks after leaving New York to fur
nish a supper for the entire Club.
They'll win the bet. There is an
abundance of small game. Driving
along those roads with my wife, |
have seen fifty or sixty quail scamper
and fly along the road for half mile
ahead of the horse, SO that
/ could shoot with a revolver with
out taking any aim and rarely miss
killing one.
SIN the extra baggage car: will be
carried fifteen dogs which have been
bought in New YORK and its vicinity
at $50 to SIS apiece. There are four
Gordon settlers, five red Irish settlers,
five fox hounds and one English har-
rier. The number of fox hounds will
be increased in Arkansas City.
Capt. Horne is ffty-two years old
and looks forty. He has mustache,
hair and eyebrows as black as an In
dams. Since coming East he has
replaced his sombrero with derby
hat, which he calls an abomination.
Under it, curled up in top-knot, he
wears his hair, which he lets down on
his shoulders when he gets west of
of the Mississippi. Capt. Horne is a
Nebraskan, and in his early days
drove the pony express from Fort
Mcpherson to Council 80 Bluffs. He
served in the Second California Cav
airy, and the secret service during
the war. He went to Oklahoma in
the early stages of the "boom," and
returned with sad stories of the en-
tiness of the bubble. In 1870 and
1872 he led the Harvard College ex-
petitions through the Yellowstone,
and in 1874 and 1873 took parties
from, Nou Vork He hoe also aofpd