Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
A Rocky Mountain Girl.

Mildred BeVlngtOn, ROCKY mountain
girl living in Wyoming on the border of
| Jackson's Hole. has recently been sue
cessful at hunting game which men usu-
ally find hard to get. Her rifle is new
| Sharpless powder using 3O-caliber weap-
on, and with it she has killed half
dozen black-tailed deer in week. She
still hunts the deer, and wears boomers
| while hunting The bullets she uses are
| soft-nosed, so that when they hit beast
| they mushroom and spread out till they
are half an inch or more across. Not
| one of the deer that she has hit has run
| more than 200 yards, and usually they
have died before they had gone ten rods.
| She finds antelope hunting the best sport
of all, and she writes to New York
| friend:
II want to tell you about an antelope
shot week ago. | took my pony and
| went away up above the ranch, tethered
it out, and then went along a little bluff
to where | could look across the country
for long way. took out my glass and
looked and looked, but [ couldn't see
single thing. Then l went on a ways
and looked again. [ had been looking
for, perhaps, an hour and half, when
happened to see a glimmmer of some
thing over a little hummock not more
than 100 yards away. It was just lit
tie speck of brown that / had seen. and
L WASH sure u SCtu any lulIS, UtiI
cooked my rifle and waited. If it was
anything | knew it would come in sight
200 or $50 yards away and and then l
| might accidentally hit it if I tried hard
enough. 1t seemed so long waiting there
| that | guessed l hadn't seen anything;
then up went something on the rising
ground. Another jump and an antelope
| was in sight, followed by four others.
l tried to catch sight at ore, but they
were so small in the sights-looked like
| little bits of rabbits. Pretty soon |
| pulled the trigger: the next moment they
| were gone. l felt like crying. You
| know if I'd only seem them on the first
rise in time I'd have had lot better
| chance.
$50 I put in another shell so that my
rife would be fully loaded, and waited
| for them to come up on the rise beyond
! that. four or FIVE hundred yards away.
| Pretty soon they came up and | shot
again--it was like shooting at mouse.
| l shot again; then [ noticed that only
| must have either turned off to one side
| or-or-and then | ran over the first
| rise and up to the top Of the one on
! which I'd shot at the antelope first, and
! there he lay, as dead as ever an animal
! was, and it was beauty, too. The
and torn fearful hole; two inches high
| err and l would have missed, sure
A Lively Mastodon.
In conversation with a gentleman,
| formerly of Denver. who came out this
| fall with a party of miners, we learned
| that the existence of living mastOdOns
near the headwaters of White river
was not the mere fabrications of the
| Northern furriers, says the Alaska News,
published at Juneau, but that the Stick
| Indians had positively told him that not
later than five years ago such animals
had been seen by them. One of the
Indians said that while hunting one day
in that unknown section he came across
several inches in the moss, ALL from the
description as the Indian marked it out
to him in the sand, it much resembled
an elephants track, and was larger
around than barrel Upon striking
it. the Indian followed up this curious
fresh, and tracked from one immense
stride to the other for distance of some
miles, he came in full view of his game.
| And what game! The hunter gave one
look, then turned and fled as though
pursued by the evil one. These Indians
as class are the bravest of hunters,
and, with no other weapon than the
| spear, will attack and STAY the st. Elias
| grizzly. But the immense proportions
| of this new kind of game both startled
| ana nlled the hunter, brave DIS ne was,
with great fear, and he imagined his
only safety lay in swift and immediate
flight. He described it as being larger
than Harpe-'s fthe post trader's) store,
with great. shining yellowish tusks and a
mouth large enough to swallow him at a
undoubtedly the same as were the huge
bones scattered all over that section. If
such an animal is now in existence, and
there is no reason to doubt the veracity
of the Indian, as other Indians, and also
ha bit section of very high altitude and
one but rarely visited by human beings,
and these only Indians We. also have
no reason to doubt the Indians tale, for
at no very recent period the Yukon coun-
| try was inhabited by these animals, and
! hundreds of their massive skeletons
| found strewn along the creeks are the
silent but truthful witnesses.