The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-13
And HOW DIFFERENT
HIS FRIENDS TORTURE HIM
Instead OF Killing Him Outrish,
They Present Him With a Min
iature Dummy Deer His
Recent Experience.

Police Captain Waters has not slept
on bed of thornless roses since he and
Frank Anderson and George Wheeler
returned from their hunting trip
over around vermillion, and a little
incident that occurred last evening
viii serve to make his life more of a
burden than II has been for several
days past
Before the party left on their hunt
the captain did a great deal OF talk
Ing about the game that he expected
to kill. and although he had never
hunted deer before in his life he made
arrangements to supply the entire po-
lice department and all OF his friends
ana several meat markets with as
much venison as they desired. Some OF
his friends suggested that he might be
seized with buck ague'' when he en-
countered his first deer, but he re-
garded all such remarks as insults.
and they stirred up a good deal of
trouble. The captain Is one of the
crack rife shots of the city and he
innocentiy imagined that shooting at
deer on the run was as easy as
shooting at a target. When he re-
turned and failed to deliver so much
as single slice of the promised ven
ison to solitary person there was a
good deal Of disappointment. and an
FOUND that the hunters had killed six
deer and Waters imagined that he
had shot one Of them. He was unable
TO furnish any proof of this state
ment. however. and II was subsequent
~ discovered that the rotund captain
had attempted to bride the others into
telling that he had killed one of the
deer. They kept their promises all
right. but the secret finally leaked out.
oil fafx 10
had secured a shot at a deer that was
standing broadside. and less than 80
yards from him. and he missed IL by
several feet.
When the police force learned of
these facts they determined that their
doughty captain should not go hungry
for venison and when they all assem-
pied at headquarters at the change
hour at o'clock he was presented
with deer. Officer j. ]. Anderson
did the honors and In a few words pre-
sented the captain with a toy deer
about an inch and a half high. The
deer was feeding on the green sward
and was In about the same position
and was as still as the one the cap
tain had missed at 80 yards. "Ole"
Captain Waters was taken completely
by surprise and he did not have a
word to say.
There are a great many things In
connection with that hunting trip be-
sides his failure to kill any kind of a
four-legged animal that Captain Wa
tiers would like to have kept quiet, and
there are one or two people whom he
would murder with blank cartridges)
I'm a minute. IL he was absolutely sure
OF their identity. He does not like to
admit. for instance. that he got lost
on the first day or that his feet are
still badly blistered from the effects OF
some cayenne pepper which some of
his kind and old particular friends
placed in his German socks before he
left Butte. When the hunters started
out on their first days hunt Waters
left them after they had walked
mile or two with the intention OF play
ing foxy and going back to camp. The
result was that he wandered off about
seven miles in the wrong direction and
lost his way completely. When he did
not show up in the evening Wheeler
and Anderson went In search of him
and succeeded in finding him after a
long tramp. In the mean time the red
pepper had got in Its work on his feet,
and he was a great deal more dead
than alive when he was finally drag
ged into camp. The next day he took
the train for Thompson Falls where
he secured some porus plasters for his
back and a soothing lotion for his feet.
Waters did not get more than two
miles from camp after that and he
never went out alone.