The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-07

Quite DOciIe So Long as Her Cubs
We're in Sight-A Brave Dogs
Experience With Young ia
guar.
Western Texas Cor. ST. Louis Republic
Those who conclude that there are no
ferocicus or dangerous wild animals in
the mountains of Western Texas would
experience a very sudden change of
sentiment if they should meet a panther
face to face in some lonely canyon. The
magnificent animal now chained in
front of our wagons is called by some a
Mexican, or mountain, lion, and by
others panther. She is of a dull yell
lCWish color and will weigh more than
four or five ordinary hounds. She
measures just eleven feet from tip of
her nose to the end of her long tail.
Although she has been in captivity
only a few days she is aStonishingly
docile so long as she can see her two
cubs that are chained under the
wagons. The moment they set up
whine she springs to her feet, all her
hair turns the wrong way and while
her eyes look like glowing Goals of fire
she crashes her sharp white fangs and
tries the strength of her chain. If 1t
were not strong enough to hold an OK
/ should prefer that there were two Or
three counties between US just at that
particular moment. The cubs are al
ready as gentle as lambs and as playful
as kittens, and nothing pleases them
better than to crawl under our blankets
at night and cuddle up close to us to
Escape the Chilly NOrthers.
We captured her in the mountains of
the Denil river in Western Texas and
doubt if more daring feat was ever
accomplished by a crowd of hunters.
Game of all kinds is very abundant
in this region and the boys had tired of
shooting deer, antelope and tlAEeys.
Several big wolves and two of these
panthers had been slaughtered and it
was evident from the numerous tracks
about the WaterholeS that there were
plenty more of them in the mountains.
One evening the hounds struck a hot
trail and ran big panther into a cave
or the side of a mountain.
That night while discussing the ad-
ventures incident to the days hunt two
daring young men, Petmaker and
Black, declared that they intended to
hang a moose over the mouth of the
animals den on the next day and cap
ture her alive. Both are TeXas-reared
boys and experienced hunters. The
proposition met with unanimous ap-
rroval and all volunteered to assist in
The Desperate Undertaking..
Next day as we rode out of camp
of them. who were expert vaqueros,
declared that they intended to rope the
beast if they could get close enough
to her. These two-young Petmaker, Of
Menard county, and George Black, Of
Austin-rode toward the den and the
other members of the party and negro
Jim, who had charge of the hounds,
started to beat up the valley.
We had gone but a short distance
before the dogs struck a hot trail and
ran with yelps, which indicated that
they were close to the animal.
Petmaker and Black heard them
coming and refined in their ponies on
the edge of a little opening and I'M
slung their rawhide ropes from the
horns Of their saddles. The big ami
NAL sprang out of the brush and
stopped within twenty feet of Pet
maker. The cowboys lariat flashed
through the air and landed right
around the wild animals neck.
The instant it touched her she