Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-03

IN his carnestness Of welcome, Enter
Ing tho Immense reception room, II /
may so call II. there found KIT Car
son and three or four Ute Chiefs for
the principal men OF that tribe made
sort OF luaiug place out Of the ranch
TO whom Maxwell was literally father
and no regarded By the whole band
Tho HuydgcA wero stretched at iull
length upon the hardwood floor before
tho great fireplace built dingunally
across one corner OF tho ROOM
KIT sat at u small table, whore he ana
Maxwell had been playing scyon-up-a
favuritG amusement of both famous
men. but Kit wan rather the better at
it--in fact the beat hand at The game
4 ever saw,
Maxwell. reall4inR that was raven
nuAiy hungry. without even Uniting AZ
10, immediately ordered "a supper pre-
pared, which both he ana XII nald
they would help mo eat, nB four hours
had pissed aince they had dined. Ia
less tAau twenty minutes o Mexican
boy brought In a tray loaded with such
| ylnnds az was the general fare IN Inv
| mountains IN those dNys-Ncniaun OF
| tho black tailed deer than which thele
/ Is no bcttcrl. bear meat, coffee, chooo-
! late and tortillas
/ Wo three white men sat ~ the small
| table, and as the coffee warmed my
| ycinn conversation began, While IN the
| act OF cutting "a piece OF the bear meat
i 1 remarked that / had seen the track
| OF a grizzly that afternoon winch was
froah, and I fanciod | could hear mo
beast snort 10 the right OF the tran,
hut. Rs | had logt no bear, and had
bcen IN ,he mountains long enough 60
know that the Indians never 20 after
the grlrEly atone but always In par
tiea. and that the old trnppera adopted
tho same course, / made no attempt
TO inyoatigate bruln's whereabouts, Tor
did not know but that l might DC
compelled to climb tree % Get OUT OF
the hruto's way II hc suddenly made
his appearance. aud tho little rlno I
carried would hc about as elective au
pOpgun against MN
T'heae retnnrka opened lNttg mouth
he was rronerally the most rctlecnt OF
men concerning himself, He SAID they
reminded him OF n "ditllculi "a iaNor
lie expression Of his-hc BOT into with
two OF the cusses, says a writer IN tht
Detroit Free Press,
Kit was not very dlalcetic In his con
yeraation and | VIII relate the story
az nearly as possible IN his own ian
guage,
lit must have been In the late sos,
ns near as 1 can remember, ! was
trapping with two partners mp on the
Medicine Bow that summer, and we
. I DMu DNA NNth WY HANNN"fhANf ~ ~
close cf tho season We started for Bird
Eor'a Fort, intending TO wlnt0r there
with Jim, as he had the most comforta'
BILE place on the frontier Ia those days
II was "A long trip, aud we We're all
nfoot, and We had To depend entirely
, ON game for our substance, ono infer
noon Nfter We had picked our cAml
for the night, leaving the other twu
men to lis mp our traps, gather wood
and make fire. ! took my rifle and
started out for meat, | was pretty
good shot Ia thoae days and the fol
lows kind % depended on ine TO do all
tho hunting FOR the OUTFIT
II had zone about a mile and a halt
from camp whom l suddenly came upon
fresh elk tracks. There were lots Of
/ that boputifui animal ON the upper trail
In those days. 1 followed tho tran OF
the elk pretty lively, for We were gu,
OF meat and soon 4 discovered herd
OF about twenty unsusplciously feeding
In n low. grassy bottom. sparseiy COW
J cred by scrubby pines and dwarf &c.
dhrs / made FOR thick bunch or the
eedara witain easy range OF the herd
and got there before 1t was aware OF
my presence.
Just as / was going 70 bring my
rine to my shoulder tho leader scented
me, and before l could draw a bead
ON one rs they stood 50 quietly, tianks
toward me, the whole hcrd started on
dead run. II WAS a beautiful sight Il
soc tho mates, with their magnihceni
antlers thrown back on their nceks
tear through the brush and under tht
low limbs OF three without ever Eot,lna
caught by the branches. Boys. have
always believed herd OF ok. when
they FIRST start ON that peculiar tret Of