El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-27

soda water, all the drinkable we had.
The traiu smelis Of it yet. Fred anus
ed himself for awhile shooting kilo-
meter posts as we rushed by, hut
Horace insist I'd tEat it was out OF
season for kilometers, and promptly
shut down on that game. Reaching
the end OF the lire. we were soon
packed and :'off Tor hot time" as the
cook told his CIR in e. Paso. Once On
the road we logged along merrily.
The road for twenty miles is fiat and
good then we got into the aius.
The Mormons have built and dug and
blasted very respectful! road through
the rocky hillsides: it ie oaly wide
enough fcr CIV wagon, but at long in
rervais there are turnouts. Daily didn't
notice the turnouts. At one point on
the road he suddenly asked, "Now soy,
what do they do when two carts meet
in this raad, goiog in opposite direc-
tions?'' ''Simply change wagons"
said truthful Horace, and pvsedY
smiled.
We camppa IL h canyon that night.
Ne41t day nearly every body went hunt
ing. Daily brought in some turkeys,
that he shot with rife on the wing.
Daily is all right: a week or two in the
woods would take all the moss Off his
back. Some one bagged deer. Dave
and Horace came il with long story
of a fgh- with ferocious bear. mo
rTt,''Ssr- Mistar- DeIs weasnezbaek, re
MARKS ed. ~"Mjster Dlfy, ne g od*
into the mountains with his Winches-
ter: after while he come back, waite
in the face, and yell to ne TO bring a
SIX shooter ana cone with him. WHAT
you seeu2 says [. Big brown bear.
says 1. And he say when he get his
breaf, He Was OILY a hundred feet
away, ard | was afcaid if ! ahot my
rifle [ would miss him, aad the bear
would como for me, and I without a
pistol couldn't do nothing [ tell him.
if he IS looking for jack rabbits, he
can find them nearer camp"
One day the brjgand ana his dog
scared up 2 mountain lion, and had a
lively hght with him, Dave was with
him, and can tell graphically of the
| out on little overhanging ledge of
rock, and stood there facing the doc.
both snarling and showing their teeth,
the two animals silhouetted against the
sky. The lion skin was brought into
camp. The dog will still be of use
Then followed several days of de-
lightful and exciting hunting excur-
sious Everybody but Fred and the
newspaper man brought in something.
Fred k lied lots of deer, putting. three
or four bullets in them at s,van hur-
dred yards. subsequently cutting their
Threats and SHINING them; but thew
always got away after that. Fred
doesn't believe a white tail deer can be
killed. He says the six we ate were
still alive, even after they had been
dried ana cooked. 1t is facs that he
and Horace and the newspaper man.
all first class shots, emptied their
magazines into a single deer one dav.
and the deer got away without leaving
a trace of blood. Ed says a pine tie
| three or four feet above the, deer was
cut down by the bullets, while dust was
flying all around him. Ed was prevar-
icatiue; the deer simply ran away with
| twenty-seven bullets in him.
S7me people have criticised the new
small calibre rifles. Horace had a
cannon One day he came in'o camp
| bringing a deer. The animal had been
shot through the body, after which he
ran a thousand yards; through the
| shoulders, after which he rau three
hundred yards down and up the side.
of steep canyon; then through the
| head, the bullet going into his forehead
squarely and cDming out in the neck
after this last shot the deer got up and
ran ten yards, and put up hard fqht
after his head was cut off and his en-,
trails taken out. Floyd says he be.
lives Horace put the hole in the head