The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-07-21
TITLED PARTY ON A HUNT.
They Kill all the Bear on the sum- init and Catch all the Trout In
 Oak Creek.

Your special correspondent has been in great luck, for while coming from tho Minneapolis convention, l met most distinguished crowd cn route via Flagstaff to the most lovely, romantic and interesting spot in the world, Oak Creek, Arizona. will first name and describe the company who have, for the past six days, made me their hon. ored guest. Sir John Hennessey, de- bonair flashing fellow and good all round sport, relative of the late Sir John Macdonald, and believe q son of the late Sir John Pope Hcnnessoy, M. P.
 Dr. A. D. Smith, D. D., professor of botany at Washington, learned tall American with glasses and an auburn wig. Wm Peck, known to fame as | the author of "Pech's Bad Boy and other celebrated works. Lord Lyon, and Englishman of retiring manners and disposition, but not altogether a bad companion.
 On our arrival at Flagstaff, we were welcomed by q deputation of citizens headed by the mayor, Dr. Brannen, the Hon. G. Bray and others during the evening of our stay at the splendid One Hundred Room Hotel. We were serenaded by the town band, who played amongst other fine selections of music, the American and British Ma tional airs.
 In the morning, after an elegant breakfast, served under the personal supervision of the proprietor, T. J. Coalter, we were escorted punctually at o'clock to the carriages in waiting for us here. A magnificent S-seated Drags stage, drawn by four grand and elegantly equipped bays; the ribbons being handled by q well-known sport ing character, F. C. Roberts. The sup plies for the journey were carried in a large l-horse wagon and on several pack horses, which consisted of all kinds of canned goods--corn beef, trimed tongue and lobster salad, with an adequate supply of Bass ale and St. Louis beer, Nuns champagne, Califor- mia reisling and claret and the choicest Havana cigars, all of which, together with full outfit of tents, bedding and cooking apparatus, were forced upon us by the liberal inhabitants of Flag sta(f.
 The first six or eight miles of our twenty mile journey were passed with out noteworthy incident, when all al once intense excitement reigncd. A herd of antelope were viewed within 800 yards brousing at the edge of some stately pine timber. X halt was called, and Sir John Hennessey and Lord Lyon started to stalk them, leaving Dr. Smith to examine the flora of the sec. ton, and Vim. Peck giving birth tc pungent witicsms by the dozen here. The two former soon succeeded in lay. ing three antelope prone upon the sward, two which they at once des' patched by pack horses to the mayor oi Flagstaff as trophy,
 Until We arrived at the edge of the cauyon, through which Oak creek runs, nothing further remarkable occurred here, having camped for the night. While supper was being prepared, Dr. Smith, in his botanical researches, suddenly came upon an immense she bear and two cubs. The bear imme- diatcly gave chase, and Dr. Smith ap- ' peared in camp the tails of his long coat standing out in horizontal posi- ton, minus his hat and with his eyes so protruding as 10 almost push his spectacles from his nose. The bear came to q halt in the midst of the camp with his fore feet in the large pot in which the savory Irish stew was be- ing prepared It was the work of a moment for Sir John Hcnnessey to siege his rifle and shoot the bear in a vital part, while Mp, Peck yalliantly rushed up with large knife and severed the animals jugular vein. Lord Lyon never having seen a live bear be- fore, imagined it was one of the cattle of the country, and quietly adjusting his eye glass to his right eye. awaited de- yelopmcnts. Our cortcous driver, MT. Roberts, now appeared, and it took him exactly eight and onc-half minutes | to diycrst the animal of it's skin. We 1 had bear meat that night as an addi- tion to our already ample repast. After supper VIC went in search of the cubs, took them alive and sent them to Flag staff, suggesting that it should be the commencement of geological collec- ton in that rapidly growing city. In the morning we all arose bright and early, and after 9 substantial breakfast, commenced the descentof the canyon in
 
 consequence of the somewhat rough road, it took some three hours to ac- complishcd this. The scene at, and