Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-10
Old SIEGEL AND Ills son.

emery in the south OF Bavaria known
- the Saltzkammere,it stayed for a
f,+nipbt Rerchtesgaden spent much of
nv time there in fishing for graylng and
r. talking to the cIiamois hunters. with
n,ony of whom had made acquaintance
drrino previous visit | used often to
d, for hours listening to their hunting
e,ories. aud on one occasion | hunted
with them
The mountains Immediately around
Rorchtesgaden are kept rs a royal cham
ois preserve and as the king was ex.
nected to arrive shortly none but his
majesty own jaeger5 were allowed, dur
Inc the time | was there. to disturb the
chauois.
was, however, very anxious to have
Al least one days sport, and arranged
With old Sicgcl and his son Franz.
chamois hunters whom had known for
some time and on whom could depend
10 have "jagd' on the morrow. Siegel
persuaded Getting. a friend of his, to
come with Us.
We started early in the morning. and
after toiling for several hours up through
the dark pine woods, which became
more scant and scrubby the higher we
went emerged at last on the open snow
fields
We now separated; Franz and Gotting
made long detour to the left, while
Segel and FASTENED on to reach some
commanding position above in case any
chamois were driven up After an
hours more climbing we halted on the
TOP Of a precipice. which, shaped in the
form of a crescent, made a complete cul
de sac for any channels driven up by our
friends below
We had hardly been watching ten
minutes when two chamois appeared in
sight, bounding up the mountain side
and coming directly toward us When
the foremost had come within range |
fred and missed. as most men would
have done, firing as | did at SO small an
object froIq'a height almost perpendicu.
larry above it.
The beasts turned, and, springing with
wonderful speed over the sharp rocks.
were soon cut of sight. fired a second
shot just as they were disappearing, and
think struck one of them, but it con
triyed to get away and we never saw it
again.
Siegel and |, somewhat crestfallen.
hudged on up the mountain, keeping a
sharp lookout on all sides and hating
now and then to give the others time to
overtake us.
Suddenly we heard, far down below
nsl,A oil II
We were much susprised, as it is one of
the first rules in this kind of hunting
never, except when absolutely necessary.
even to raise the voice, much less, Of
course, to fire a rife, which scares the
chamois completely.
We knew that Getting and Franz, di-
rectly below us as they were, could not
possibly have seen a chamois, as our
shots must have driven them quite out of
reach. After minutes anxiety listen
ing, we fancied we heard shouts, and
fearing we knew not what. called loudly
Franz's name
We then heard-and this time quite
distinctly-the voice Of Getting saying
Come down. come downl 1t is all overt
Franz has shot himself!'
Siegel and We're standing together
ankle deep in the snow, ! glanced into
his face, and think shall never forget
the look Of misery | saw there. Before
knew what he was about, he had seized
his rifle. had presented the muzzle to his
head, and was feeling with his foot in
renzled manner for the trigger.
snatched the piece away just in time
he did not try to recover it, but throw,
ms himself on the snow, burst into a
most passionate, most eloquent torrent
OF praise Of his sons many virtues. He
told me what good son he had always
been to him, anxious to fulfill his Slight
est wish.
at length succeeded in partially sooth-
mg him, and in rousing him to action
We scrambled down Us fast as we could
guided 10y Cuttings shouts.
1t was long time before we reached
themi to me it seemed an age. iaccuscd
myself Of being the author of all this
misery, and my anxiety was heightened
oy the reelection that we were in reality
poachng, and we should very likely, in
consequence of this misfortune, get into
trouble on our return
We found poor Franz lying shot through
me back and in great pain among stunted
Lmeholz' "a plant something like our
WhinouSh 1t appeared that he had, con
uaFy to all jaeger rules, carried his rifle
capped, and that in walking through the
knleholz he had stumbled and .ailen, and
MS rifle had somehow or other exploded
causing severe wound
We stanched the blood as well as we
could with our handkerchiefs, and then
heid IA consultation Getting said he
Knew Of chalet some way off to which
he thought we might manage to carry
Franz.
lifted him up as carefully as possible.
and walked for some way over the
accountable knieholz, which threatened
10 TRIP one up every moment. | man
aged, | think, to so about two hundred
yards with my burden, and then, ex-
hausted, had to lay him down. His
iaIher tried to carry him next, but I'M
htrred and half blinded by his tears, had
also soon to give it up.
''otiinS was the only one of the party
"ho could carry Franz for any great
4eASth Of time over the rough ground
we were now compelled to traverse; he
was small man, but seemed 20 be all
Wire and muscle.
II was, however. evident that at the
SLOW pace we were Obliged to go we