Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30
FOR GRIZZLY BEARS.
A Notable Hunting Expedition Starts
To-Day for the Mountains.
SCOUTS AND TRAPPERS ENGAGED.
The Party Will Camp Near the Headwaters
of Powder River.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUIPAGE

A party of Pittsburg and Boston gentle
men will leave for the West at s:15 O'Clock
this morning, loaded strictly for grizzly
bear. The expedition will be one of the
best equipped that has penetrated the
/ Rocky Mountains in recent years, and will
be composed entirely of experienced big
game hunters.
The hunters will be Messrs A /. Scott,
| the wholesale boot and shoe man, and
Joseph L. Lyons, of this city, and J. R.
! Parker and E. B. Holmes, of Parker.
Holmes & Co., Boston. They go direct
from this city to Ft. Steele, Wyoming,
where the expedition will be increased by
the necessary retinue of guides, scouts, cooks,
photographers, ETC., with the possible addi-
tion of a chaplain or two. All the nee
essary commissary stores, guns, an
munition and camping paraphernalia
has been packed up and will be shipped
with the party this morning. The COM
missory stores weigh over 300 pounds and
is intended to last the party six weeks.
AN OLD TRAPPER ENGAGED.
At Ft. Steele the party will be met by
Joe Walters, one of the oldest and most
celebrated trappers and hunters Of the
Rocky Mountains. He has agreed in a
letter to show the party so grizzlies on the
trip, if they live through it. They will
also be accompanied by VIM. McCloud,
Rufe Rhodes and Ed. Adams, three noted
scouts who know every path through the
widest regions of the grizzly jungles-
From Ft. Steele the objective point across
the country will be the Big Horn Mount
aims, 200 miles from the railroad. This
Journey will be mada on horseback, and the
entire camping outfit will be packed on the
backs of bronchos. Thirty-two horses have
been engaged from what is known as the
Two Bar Outfit to convey the party and
Rufe Rhodes, one of the scouts, was
with General Reno in that capacity,
and bears the distinction . of being
the first man on the battlefield of
the Little Big Horn the morning after the
slaughter of General Custer and his gallant
troops. Rufes' brother was killed in this
battle, since which time he has been the
sworn enemy of the redskins. Adams and
Rhodes are noted lariat throwers and will
undertake to capture alive one or. two half
grown grizzlies for the Schenley Park
geological collection.
PREPARED TO TAKE THE GRIZZLY.
This is the fourth trip for Messrs Scott
and Holmes to the Rockies, ,and this time
they are equipping especially tor grizzly
bear, though they expect to take the pelts
of few elk, antelope and mountain lion.
Mr.. Scott says that he will also make an
effort to bring down a mountain goat
Last year he followed a small
band of goats for four days without
success, but has good faith in finding lhem
= in4 rrb ho norfx- int
camp on this trip. The steel bear-traps
that they ship with them this morning have
grips as powerful as a wise, and will hold
secure the strongest grizzly in the mount
aims. They were made by the works of the
Oneida Society, at Oneida, n. Y, and
weigh 60 pounds each. The pa ty will all
be equipped with the Winchester 'New
Express" 5O-caliber rifles, the latest and
most accurate and deadly hunters weapon
made. The shells will be charged with the
new explosive, ''gelbite, which, while al
most noiseless, is far more powerful than
powder.
The expedition which, as stated before,
will consist of ten persons-four hunters.
three scouts, Walters, the. trapper, cook
and photographer-and 80 horses, will
not arrive at the headwaters of Powder
river, where they expect to camp, for a
week or ten days.
ALL TO BE PRESERVED.
THE DISPATCH has made arrangements
with Mr.. Scott to have a messenger sent
from the camp to the railroad station, a dis
tance of about 200 miles, once a
week, with full account of their
hunting and trapping, descriptions
of the country, Photographic views, ETC.,
which will be published as soon as received.
Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Holmes are not strangers
in this wild country and have had many ex-
periences in past trips worthy of the old
time trappers. In the three trips they
made together Mr.. Scott killed 90 elks and