The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-08

Despite Bounties for TheIr ScaIps the
RavaEe- OF the Beasts Grow Worse.

Despite Bounties for Their scalp. tho
RavaEe- OF the BEASTS Grow Worse.
"Out in our country the State and county
Governments have to put their hands in their
pockets pretty deep to pay bounties for the
killing of OF wild varmints." said Colorado
ranchmnn at the Hoffman House the other
day. with all We can do to thin out the pests
it's hard work to keep any OF our sheep and
young stock alive. Instead OF getting fewer
with the building OF cities and railroads and
the opening up Of ranches the country over.
the wolves and coyotes seem to increase In
numbers. They're certainly holder. In the
old plain days. when the buffaloes went in big
herds. with the bulls always on guard. the
yarmints hal to fight for every buffalo calf
they pulled down. and for the wild horses.
they kept together and could care for them
selves we'll that wolves didn't like to VEN
ture near them. But tho tame stock that now
feed on the ranges give the prowling sneaks
Just picnic. The cows and bulls are scattered
everywhere over the country. alone or In little
bands Being graded stock. they're not fight
ers. any way. like the bufIaloss and old style
wild Texas cattle. and they don't combine for
protection. The result is the wolves can get
calf or colt any time By the mere going for II.
and now they've got SO bold that they'll COM
bins TO pull down lone cattle; and that isn't
ness.
class OF men. ami 'old-timers that have been
tsamins. and good deal q, waiting round
secured the rust on their %lh guns run and gone
atory wild beasts. men have turned again TO
follow the business OF trappers and hunters.
iSd S for SHsloss and psItriss but T yauhS
men and hexicans have taken TO the follow:
ing Of hgnters life. What with traps and
wouldn't be a ,yaTmint left alive, but II you
watch out, you'll see that most Of them don't
hides and wolf scaips. Now and then when
business i dull the Tanchmen get up great
hunt. taking IN whole townships; sportsmen
come from the towns with dogs, and they cir
cle wide and draw together To md that every
unseen through the lines OF heaters,
ITS when man makes a business OF hunt
ing on his own hook and lays out his plans to
beat them at their own game that no does
But it's a tick 70 fool them, and no green
any or to ay hsrol 10 ea
tee the creatures now than il used TO be.
for the killing they're mighty apt TO snifI and
turn " their noses as = TAFT. But there are
them. too. / was down across the New Mexico
line linen not i9Gs ASI s ,.Ie snSntTy rGTn
was his full nnme brought in foTty-two wolf
schlps and skins to be inspected by the County
Commissioners In orderto get the bonnties.
expected TO realize over 500 on the lot-not a
bad showing for Mexican's three months
Tork , SsSn you consider , That hs had
% the skins besides. He had mostly caught
the animals Ia traps. and his pile OF peltrles
lgnXes. coyotes. wildcats. skunks and toxes,
AL Of which command good prices with the
fur buyers. But that man. you see WAS a
born hunter, with more Indian than Spanish
blood In his veins. and he was kin enough 10
the anImgls he hunted to know by Instinct ali
their habits and feelings so as 10 snties them
and interest them, A stolid-looking fellow,
too. he was, with no Wild West trapplngs upon
cheap shop clothsS He had an eye that ashsd
however when he showed interest 10 an thinK
and his nTearms were bright and OF the latest
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