The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-19
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Occasionally, when running down one OF
these ring-tailed despoilers of hen-roosts,
the hunters run across one of the drovcs
of Wild hogs that sometimes venture OUt
into tho open places on the river bottom.
The hunters, however, rarely venture into
he thickets on the old Trahern ranch and
IN the underbrush, where the wild hogs
root out a living u is a dangerous ven
ture unless one is prepared 10 meet row
Ing, vicious old "tusker." Williams, the
rain wrecker, now serving a life sentence
70 the Folsom state prison, knew this wild
section well, and Ccld The authorities mat
hc crawied all night long through tins
tract on the evening Of the Morano hold
mp. He was looking for a hiding-place
where il would take The officers weeks 10
lind him. ANA ne was in just the right kind
| OF country TO find such a place. He might
all be a large had not hunger and GU
r,osity forced him 20 leave the haunts of
the wild hogs
Those robbers viii have plenty OF hog
meal 10 keep them alive" was what a
number Of old-iimers said when they hcarG
ihat he train Wreckers had taken TO the
orush This i5 what fred hunters with
q desire 10 pos ess pair of wild boar's
tusks.
Pope ana l had heard" said Douglas.
i1 telling ms adventure, that there were
OTIS Of wild hogs in The underbrush near
|
came 10 Che country. but paid no attention
10 u, for whenever I had a chance to-
80 hunting | was after ducks and doves
Ai'cr the newspapers printed so mucl
aboui mat Williams and SchlageI affair,
and tod Of tire Wild country they were
| supposed 70 be in, / suggested to Jim
| that Pope-that we go down into il some
day and see if we could get one of those
wiid boars. Jim is always ready for any
thing of that kind. and has fine Win
chester to help him out / had no gun.
| so borrowed a sineie-barreled magazine
shotgun, like that crack ehol Of the Reli-
ance club uses In breaking blue rocks.
| we htted Qua for three DAYS stay ana
hired a skin to 90 up as far as San Joa
gum CITY 1 dta not know much abou,
the country but Jim had lived IN the
country all his life, and knew the lay
Of the land.
When we reached San Joaquin CITY it
was early IN the afternoon and Jim 90
CURED If there were any woodchoppers'.
camps near by. Just as soon as we learn.
ed IN what direction we could find one
we started for 1t. Maybe you don't think
it was work getting there! That's the
toughest country I ever expect to travel
through. There is nothing but tangled
willows, blackberry vines. hazel bushes
and underbrush, and you have TO crawl on
the ground or climb over it, or cut your
way through. 1t was nearly night when
we reached the clearing where the wood
choppers cabin is No one would ever
flnd 1t in ten years without proper instruc-
tons.
The woodchopper routed us out at 4
o'clock next morning to get outside of
some coffee, bacon and a teal duck apiece
The old chap made us eat a tremendous
breakfast for, as he put it, IL YOU don't
IeGl
hunt long in that brush We we're
mighty glad afterward that we fed wen,
Tor when we struck the brush we found
that IL took nearly an hour to so a mile
1t must have been fully three hours be-
fore we got sign of wild hog. Jim
caught glimpse of him in bit of clear
ing. We crawled through the tangled
blackberry vines in front and got a good
view of him. He was an old boar. lust
like the pictures you have seen. Near him
were a sow and three fairly grown pigs.
They were too far off for a good dead shot.
so we moved about to get little nearer
l went to the left and Jim to the right.
The old rascal must have scented us
for he lifted his snout and started for the
brush directly in front of where l was
standing. | stepped out and in the ex-
element shot too soon, for he was over
seventy-yards off. The shot never touch
Il did not think there was any danger.
for l knew all had to do to get another
and a better shot was to pump another
cartridge into the magazine l tried 20
work the gun. The cartridge stuck.
pumped it for all it was worth but il would
not bulge.
Il was on one knee, using every muscle
to dislodge the shell, and the boar was
coming head on like limited express.
L saw he'd reach me before l could
jump anywhere for safety so dubbed the
gun and made a smash at him. But | Slip
ped on the soggy ground and ne was at
me, when | heard Jim's Winchester crack
The boar looked as an elephant to me fer
an instant I'm sure his tusks looked lsr-
ger than mastodon's.
He was right over me, and one of his
tusks srGzed my duck coat and Jim
caught him between the shoulders. 1 lcid
nat on the ground. reaching for my knife
as the boar toppled over.
That's the closest shave : ever had
Catch me fooling with those magazine snot
guns any more Trombone that's what
the Crack Reliance man calls himself
may break bluerocks with them, but IN
take a rife and 44-caliber Colts besides
when / go after wildhogs again.
What we should have had was a lot Of
good dogs. Then there would have been
have made it warm for the best dogs in
the country"
when Jim fired the boar fell directly
across my body, and l couldn't get out
from under him till Jim ran up and helped
to roll the big brute oyer. He did not look
quite SO big when he Aas stretched out as
he did when standing over me with his
head ready for gouge. but he was a vic
ious-lOol1ing rascal just the same. We
each have one of the big tusks as a SOU
venir of that fight.
"On the way home we bowled over an
other. An old sow and two pigs were root
ing acorns under an oak. This time we had
a 'cinch,' for we were right on them, and
while l put a load of buckshot into one of
the pigs Jim caught the sow right under
the left shoulder. Then our troubles began
again. How to get them through the brush
was the next question. We finally decided
10 take the pig and let the old woodchop-
per take the Sow if he wanted her.
That night we had a feast in his cabin
He dressed the pig, did the cooking and
we did the rest l tell you, we were hun
cry"
Several other hunters are contemplating
a trip into the bottoms for boar hunt,
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