Omaha daily bee., 1898-03-23
YELLOWSTONE PARK PLANS
Warfare on the Poachers to Be Continued
This Season.
ATTEMPT TO sToP SLAUGHTER OF GAME
Ideas for nm Entirely New Regime in
the Great Pleasure Land of
the United states in
wyoming.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. March 22.-tspecial)
Although the snow Is still oo the ground
in the Yellowstone Park, arrangements are
already under way, however, that will pro-
vide a very different outlook for the tourist
in the park for the season OF 1898 from that
of 1897 During the closed season Colonel
Young has made lie a burden to poachers.
so much SO that renegades and outlaws OF
the Jackson Hole and other Wyoming dis
tricts have threatened his life. They have
been more energetically pursued and moro
sevef ely punished than ever before. AS
consequence the outlaws have gone hungry
and game has got through the winter in ex-
cellent shape Colonel Youngs endeavors to
have the boundaries of the park extended
on every side to natural rather than artl-
fetal limits means a blow to these poachers
worse than any other. II he is successful.
the Jackson Hole country will cease to be
a resort for outlaws in the west, and park
game can nc longer be driven there in herds
for slaughter. At present toe SUBMITS OF
the Tetons rise far south OF the park boun.
daries, but hereafter they will be included,
and the few men who have Travelled from
the park to the Tetcns have many stories
to tell OF wonders there. These include gey-
and geyser formations. canyons painted
by nature vvidly those OF the upper
Yellowstone magnificent petrifactions in for
est and animal life, and splendid game pre-
serves. The remaining extensions will add
to the park many features of interest.
new Fort Yellowstone will greet the
toucst Of 1885, The dngy walls OF the old
fort are giving place to a handsome and
comm0dlous structure set in the valley over
against the Mammoth Hot Springs hotel at
the park entrance. Probably several new
hotels will be found at points OF interest
= hitherto Inaccessible to any travellers but the
nj N bay their o.
hiCles. Roads will be built to these and
Cegion opened that will lengtlen from five
days to eeven the full grand round" Of the
park stage trip. More attention is to be paid
to bicycle travel than ever before, and new
reads and old will have facilities for this
class OF travel. Permission to operate stages
has been givel to TRANSPORTATION companies
in addition to the old Park Transportation
monopoly, and at least two full lines OF
etagcS will be In operation. Arrangements
are being made for traking entrances to the
park at other points than Cinoabar, and it
is quite likely that the monopoly always
enjoyed by the Northern Pacific railroad,
the only line to reach TIE rark will be
. broken in a short time.
The National pcrk is intended for some
thing besides the pleasure of the tourists
who are taken through 1t during three sum-
mer mcnths One Of It's important pur
poses Is to preserve from extinction some OF
the game animals of the west.
WORK In tnlS line was Degun almost TOO
late to save the buffalo, but there now
there immense herds OF elk, numbering
probably 10000 head, and there are probably
nearly as many antelopes. Beavers once
nearly wiped out. are reappearing In the
streams: bears are too plenty for comfort;
porcupines, foxes lynxes. and other small
game animals very plentiful and teme
Wolves and coyotes, of course, flourish al
together too we'll 1t Is now proposed to kill
Off enough of the coyotes to prevent their
hunting In packs and to drive them out Of
the park. The wolves present a problem
that has not yet been solved. A number of
expert trackers. hCnters. and game-keepers
mostly in the military service. are employed
at the Park Their duty Is 70 break UP
poachlng. 1t takes not only Il brave man.
but clever hunter to catch poachec. He
must know the habits OF the animals as well
as the poacher hmselfj Many men have for
years made business OF hunting on the
national preserves. selling the horns, hides
and where possible the meat also, en- the
outskirts. A buffalo skin, formerly worth ST.
Is now almost uaattainable for money; a
buffalo head is worth from $3.50 to $500; elk
horns bring from $25 to 800 pair; beaver
fur is valuable, and so Is fox and lynx. The
temptation for the poacher is great for the
shooting, II he car escape Colonel Youngs
men, Is easy. But this spring fresh horns
and skins are very scarce in the towns near
the park.