, 1890-10-16
LIFE IN The WEST.
Wild Animals Shipped to a
New Hampshire Reserve,
ANOTHER GOOD BEAR STORY
Through Hop Trains to Be Run
Every Three Days From
Puyallup.

Colonel o. v. Davis, of Hope, Idaho,
IL in Butte, and on being interviewed by
un Inter Mountain representative gave
the following as the purpose of his visit
there;
III am on my way to Weber canyon
upon somewhat peculiar mission. You
have heard of Colonel Sellers and his
| schemes. Well, 1 have one that the
buoyant old fraud missed and 1 think 1t
was tho one Of all others his Imagination
should have conjured up, as there are
millions in II for sure. | am now en-
gagged in shipping two carloads of wild
animals 10 q reserve in New Hampshire,
where there are now two loads that have
gone on before.
These two loads consist of elk from
Beaver canyon and moose from Winni-
| peg. The elk are all young animals
from one to two years of age and as
promising q lot as were ever seen. The
| largest OF these has antlers sixty.eight
inches In length from the base and fifty
! four inches between tine tips, showing
him to DO pretty good sized specimen,
| but the rest nave not reached maturity
as yet and will doubtless develop some
even better samples than the one | have
mentioned. The moose herd | have at
| Winnipeg now is composed entirely of
calves but have some full grown spcci-
mems elsewhere, One COW | have trained
to drive in harness and she has made
her mile in four minutes without n
break. You Just ought to SEQ her 80
once.
my plan is to keep these animals on
the reserve and allow them to breed in
order that the species may not become
extinct. The same is true of the deer
| n "a n nj M tn a
animals, but more especially of the buf.
falo. can put my hand upon every
herd of buffalo in this country to-day.
There are forty seven that are being
horded In the Fla,head country, tho
thirty-fve that Jones holds down III
Kansas, twelve at Bertha, OAK, and the
twenty-five that own In New Hamp.
shire. These are all the herds left on
the continent to-day out OF the almost
countless millions of q few years ago.
| propose to make collection OF all
the wild animals in this country liable
TO extinction and place them upon my
reserve for breeding purposes, but for
the present this Is only secondary OBJ
jeCt. Tho great scheme Is to take q
number of representatives of all these
families to the worlds fair in '93. There
propose to arrange them i'll grounds
within large enclosure and place in the
center q regular Indian village with sew
eral families OF these aborignes. Ii
there could be anything taken there
that would be an attraction 1t appears to
me this should be. 1t would be rep
resentation of America as IT was in
the early days that II would be hard to
beat, and am confident everyone who
visited the exposition would want to see
it,"
s. r. Odacre is one of the engineers in
charge of q surveying party on the rail
road being built from Chehalis to Will
lapa harbor. The Chelalis Nugget re-
lates that few days ago he started out
accompanied by l.. Hare, Scotty lamar
and the two Blankinships, and by some
means got little in advance of his par
ty, thinking only of the serious work lie
had in hand. He failed to take any pre-
cautions against surprise from the many
wild animals known TO infest the dense
forests around HIM; but they have an
eye to business night and day, and such
a tempting morsel as a nice fat man was
too good to be treated with indifference.
! Words fail us to describes he surprise he
felt when he found himself in the hug
OF monstrous bear 1t wasn't in his
! contract with tho Northern Pacific; his
I
| here was case where he was getting
| fixed. Fixed was no word for the loving
embrace he received
| 1t is not to be wondered ut that he
| yelled and he did IL so Justify that
| Scotty heard him and came right man
| fully to his rescue. Now Scottv had a
| gun, but which was bear and which was
| Oldacre, that was conundrum. Bear
was what he was after, so putting on his
| best smile and his gun behind him. he
| walked manfully to the bear and began
| plnyfully patting him on the back, kind
of teasing like. Mr. Bear, seeing that
| he was in for hugging social, started
| for Mr.. Scotty, BY this time the rest of
the surveying crew had got on to the
scene and saw the game, and just as the
bear made a run three guns were brought
| into line and three bullets went to their
| last home beneath old bruins hide,
while Scotty whipped up his gun and
put in settler. When laid out at full
length their trophy weighed about fifty
pounds and measured feet 8 inches
from tip to tail, and many were the tales
/ of hairbreadth escapes that went round
the camp fire that night.
The hop crop of Washington is an
immense one this year, and we'll posted
railway men put 1t at 80. 600 bales, the
Seattle Telegraph says. 1t will take o
lurge amount OF cars to move this large
crop to the East Now that hops COM
mand such large price, those who have
their money tied up in them naturally
| deserve to get it out as soon us possible.
Therefore it is desirable that hops be
hurried to their destinations as fast as
possible. In order to do this Superin-
| tendent Nadeau has ordered that
through trains of sixteen cars each be
started from Puyallup every three days.
The hops will come from Kent, White
River, Puyal!up and other points along
the line OF the road. Each train bears
the inscription in large letters on both
sides OF one of the cars: