The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-21

est wild beasts and most dangerous rep
tiles we have in America would be an ar-
1 thority among naturaliSts. lie has hunt
/ ed all over Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and
about half of California He Is difident
about telling Of his adventures, but when
warmed up he can entertain a listener for
hours. He recently related a fight TO the
/ death that he saw years ago between a
I panther and drove OF wild hogs in the
vicinity of what is now Caliente. in Kern
county. Dams language is followed as
near as possible in the story telling:
About 20 years ago, near's ken rekcl-
lect, ] was huntin OF top OF Blue noun
tain, in Kern county. L had killed big
buck and had Just finished skinnin him
when heard the squealin OF a drove OF
wild hogs You ken bet hung that buck
in a tree just as quick as could, Tor them
critters is the pryenesE things and the
meanest We ever saw. Why, Y they Get
mad, they'll tackle anything. Well, l had
just got my deer safe when ! heard them
a-comin, a-squoalin and a grunJin-
Il had TO hunt safe place myself, for
there was no use of shootin one when
there's maybe 40. II killed one, I'd had
TO kill 'em all. They'd never leave long
as one of them was alive. / thTowed the
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good sized tree about 20 yards from
where hung the deer.
Them hogs put in an appearance just
as got on q big limb, about 10 feet above
the ground. They was led by two big
boars, and there wuz 80 of 'em, all told
They smelled the blood and the deer, root
ed Up the leaves and ground with their
long noses and tore around generally IN
til they found the tree where the deer WIS
hung. just about this time heard some
thing lumpin from tree to tree on the
lower side Of the rise, and purity soon
saw the biggest painter l ever saw jump
on TO a limb Nv tree about seven or eight
yards from the limb the deer hung on.
Them hogs hadn't Yet winded the
painter, and they kept up SIGH racket
squealin and gruntin that they hadn' {
heard him. The painter didn't sec the
hogs until he struck the last tree when he
WIZ almost over them. He jest laid him
self full length on the limb and watched
them, all the time wavin his tail back
and forth and showin his teeth He
knowed he had 10 get tibet meat while it
was in the tree or hev the fight of his life
for it If it got 10 the ground. After a bit
the painter seemed to make up his mind
for be got his feet under him and sauattcj
tell ye, stranger, tibet WIZ purity jump
That painter Jest sailed through the air
and landed plump ON the limb over the
deer.
when the painter struck the limb, the
hogs quit squealin and tearin around
and formed themselves in ring, with the
body of the deer in the center above them.
They began 10 foam at the mouth and
snap their tusks. What noise they made!
They wuz the madGcst and awfulest look
in animals l ever saw. All tibet time the
painter was trying to haul the deer up 10
him with his paw, but every time he'd get
the deer swung around tho sinews with
which il was fastened TO the limb would
make il slip back. Purity soon the painter
seemed 70 see the trouble fur he grabbed
she buck with enc paw, while he reached
down and bit the deer loose. There ;
where the painter made the biggest mis-
take Of his life, fur be couldn't hold the
deer when the fastenin's was cut, and in
spite NV him it tore loose from his claws
and fell right in the middle NV the drove
NV hogs They jumped on IL and tore il
10 pieces quicken / Kin tell ye. The
painter WIZ 50 mad that he lost his judg-
ment. or he wouldn't have done such a
foolish thing as he did, fur he gave one
ond, knockin two Nv 'em over as he
landed. Then there wuz a fight. The
hogs quit the deer and went for the paint
er Now he wuz down and then up.
cover went a hog ripped wide open
here, while another got wipe with that
big paw that made him see stars, but the
hogs wuzn't idle by no means. They rip
ped and tore that painter fore and aft.
They wuz a dozen long cuts on his sides
and legs, and his body wuz covered with
blood. SIGH snarlID, screamin, squeal-
in, Tippin and tearin l never did see.
In less time than 1 ken tell IL ] | nv them
, hogs wuZ laid out, and two or three more
wuz hurt, but the painter wuz purity near
knocked out roo. He wUZ layin on his
back, and every time n hog got in reach
Nv his claws he would give him n rip
which would knock the hog out, at least
fur awhile. One hog made a lunge at the
painters head and got caught by the
throat by the painter, but thet wuz his last
act, for one Nv the boars drove his long
tusks into the painters belly and literally
ripped him open from one end n the
other, and in less than three seconds tina.
painter was torn TO pieces
The hogs took up the pieces bones and
all, and crUnChed and ground them until
nCthin could be seen NV the animal big
enough 70 make gun wad. Tibet WIZ a
battle, sure. There WIZ about 10 dead
hogs, and six or eight cut and hasbed
from snout % tail don't believe n sin
gle one escaped some injury, but the liv-
in ones, whether wounded OF hot, list
kept tearing around till they cleaned up
all tibet wuz left Wv the deer and the paint
er.
Il had set on tibet limb and watched the
fight until il WIZ finished and never
thought Of my gun, and II 1 bad don't
believe | would have used IL. but nOw thet
n vuz ever knew q hev 10 Kill the rest
ov the hogs or stay in the tree all night,
20 l commenced on EN- aad killed the last
one Nv EN-. After the first shot the liv
in ones surrounded my tree and tried 70
get a. Ire. and they staid all night there
TIL / keeled over the last one. After had
cleaned them out ! started for home, and
for the first tine in q long while got there
without any meat. ''-F.xchanze.
did you see al t,.1se dreadful charges
the papers make against yCgi' said ths
politicians wife
I did. " wa the reply- what am ] 90
ing 20 do sboa: it,
WIZ" she answered, almost sobhiny,
( IL d make that hOrrsd editor prove ey-
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