The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

and it's needed to keep them off.
Take a correct map and If one is good
plainsman and knows how to steer a
prairie schooner" a guide will not be
needed for other hun ters, ranchmen,
cowboys and Indians will be met with
who will give necessary directions. If
going for a big trip take it easy at first,
for each day the load will got lighter as
the hunting grounds are neared, and
speed may be gradually increased. Head
north for the salt fork Of Powder river,
and in the wooded ranges to the east Elk
are to be found, in the rough buttes
mountain sheep and mule Ceer.
On the table lands, antelope, and most
everywhere, labo or ''loafer' wolves and
coyotes Near Sand Springs antelope
will be found in abundance Grizzly
tracks, as large as you like to see them,
will confront you every day but you must
be sharp TO see them for so much hunt
ing has made them cunning, as well as
fearless and determined, and every hun
ter Yields them the palm for the last two
qualities
If game should be scarce in this region,
try the Rattle Snake range, or the south
side Of Yellowstone park. If grizzly, es-
pecially, are wanted, go on north TO the
Mussel-shell river country. In the Grey
Bull river section, game of all kinds
abOunds, and the streams, from the melted
snow in the mountains, TEEN with
speckled trout. Don't go to the once
famous elk grounds, Bates hole, for it is
now too thickly settled.
On the east side of the main range of
the Big Horns, palatable water will be, in
the very dry seasons, hard to find; for
the immense deposits of impure carbon
ate, sulphate, and biborate of soda or bOr-
ak, and salt make the water almost too
alkaline to drink but, on the other side
clear, cool water is to be found at most
any time.
The Big Horn presents some most
beautiful and sublime scenery and it's
highest peak, the Russian Grown, is
bathed in eternal congelation, some Is, 500
feet above the sea. Way up there, not
quite near the top, the sheep feed in sum-
mer on the new, fresh grasses and alpine
ichens. But don't go in summer to
hunt them, or any other game. Start
from home the last of August, and the
hunting grounds may be reached early in
September. Be sure to stay all OF Octo-
Der, ana as much longer as pos
sible The kootenay country of Idaho,
north Of The Occur d'Alene mountains.
gained by the Northern Pacific road, is
now one of the best and surest hunting
grounds, for caribou, too, may be found
there, and, perhaps, mountain goat. This
region north to the Selkirk mountains, in
DAILLoH NOlul4ulds WILL NC lOullu dlulOSJ
unnhabited, save by wandering bands of
Indians On the Belle Fourche river, in
Wyoming gaelic used to abound, but
they can scarcely be found now, although
buffalo may still be heard of in struggling
bands; but this is all only to be
heard of. You know of their ruthless
slaughter; biackened page on the his
tory Of the west and our legislation, for
not protecting the noble beasts. For the
sportsman, they are extinct, and now, of
course, they are heavily and rigidly pro
tected by law. Their whtened bones
everywhere dot the plains, Or the shadows
of the gorge and, are picked up by mer-
cenary hands TO fertilize the ground or
whiten our sugar. Only paths remain,
worn in the solid rock where they went to
water, when the west wind was shaking
out the embers from the hearthstone of
the great spirit, previous to its rekiadling
by the east wind next day. In the king
dom of Waukon, in the land of the here
after, they grazein the sun-lighted valleys
and drink at evening from the limpid
streams Of eternity. Together they dwell
in peace with the true native American,
and from whence they will come not