Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-01-24
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DAn smith VINO lives aione IN e log
nut up 70 the San "a. yacinto mountains hti
the year founuIsls tne smost genuine nunt-
er ana trooper II southern SsallIornia.
While other old time hunters nave been
all urged from the forest, the rocky last.
nesses Of the mountains Of from lives e .of
seitude and hardship by the temptations s
Of yiiization or Q thirst Tor riches IN gold
fields or silver mines, Dan has over ~
years been 9 trapper and 9 hunter.
He could I'LL q volume with thrilling
tales Of adventure, and his observation q q
the habits and charact eristics OF the 1iercs
es5 WHO beasts ana most dangerous rep
tiles We have III America would Pc an a,l-
stnorlty among natural1sts he mas hnnt.5
ed all over Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and
about half OF California. He Is. d1fhdent
about telling OF his adventures, but when
warmed up ne can entertain q llstenor Tor
hours he recently related light TO the
death that ne saw years ago between a
panther and Grrcc11 or W1ld hogs In tho
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 rekol-
lect, was huntin on top of Blue noun
tain, In Kern county. j had killed a biz
buck and had Just finished sl1innin him
when I heard tho squealin Of drove Of
wild hogs You ken bet I hung that buck
In tree just as quick as. I could, for them
critters is the pryenest things and the
meanest We ever saw. Why, IL they get
mad, they'll tackle any thing. Well, i had
just got my deer safe when heard them,
a-comin, a-squealin and a. gruntin.
II had to hunt q safe place myself. for
there was no use of shootin one when
there's maybe 40. II Iskiliel one, I'd had
to kill 'em ALL They'd never leave long
as one of them was alive. / throWed the
gun strap over my shoulders aud took to
good sized tree about 90 yards from
where hung the deer.
Them hogs put in an appearance lust
as got on a big limb. about Is feet above
the grolnd They was led by two big
bears, and there wlz 80 of EN-, all told.
They smelled the blood and the deer, root
cd up tho leaves and ground with their
long noses and tore around generally un-
til they found the tree where the deer was
hung. just about this time heard some
thing julnpin from tree to tree on the
lower side of the rise, and purity soon 7
saw the biggest painter ever saw jump
on to limb NV a 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 q racket
sQuealin and gruntin that they hadn't
heard him. The painter didn't see the
hogs until he struck the last tree, when he
wuz almost over them He Jest laid him.
self full length on the limb and watched
them, all the time wayin his tail back
and forth and shown his teeth. He
knowed he had to get thet meat while it
was in the tree or hev the fight Of his life
for it if it got to the ground. After a bit
the painter seemed to make up his mind.
for he got his feet under him and squatted.
tell ye, stranger, thet wuz 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 to foam at the mouth and
snap their tusks What noise they made
Ihey Wuz the maddeSt and aWfuleSt look
In animals ever saw. All thet time the
painter was trying to haul the deer up to
him with his paw, but every time he'd get
the deer swung around the sinews with
which it was fastened to the limb would
make 1t slip back. Purity soon the painter
seemed to see the trouble, fur he grabbed
the buck with one paw, while he reached
down ana bit the deer loose. There's
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