Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29

Pomona. Cal. July i7,-col Dan
Waters, the best known all'round
hunter OF Wild game IN the mountains
and canyons OF southern California and
Arizona. came home the other day. ar
ger a brief season OF hunting down tho
Colorado river from Yuma TO the Gulf
" California; He tells good story OF
his experiences among the droycs Of
wil1 hogs along the tule lands ON the
banks OF the Lower Colorado.
Col. Dan Waters tells his experiences
o. followsi
Dangerous wild hogs7 Holy smoke.
they are the most tremendous. power
ful and ncrciest beasts In tho whole
United States. You never saw or heard
anything like them. Why, the old bears
can Kill a grizzly bear In no time. They
are quicker than chain lightning. never
- human boingh more than once In a
fgw years, and would tackle a drove
Of elephants without a seconds thought.
They'd charge the very devil. Don't
know anything but fight for living.
They've got tuska that are over half "A
foot long and sharp as needles. They
could rip open rhlnocoroA quicker
than you can think. and they have the
biggest mouths full of the most awful
teeth I've ever seen I'm any menngcrie.
When they are wounded. whew! Il IL
Ike an animated cyclone. II any OF you
people 10 down the Colorado TO hunt.
and shoot one Of the Blythe wild bunrH.
you've got 10 shoot to XIII or hunt "A
big tall tree In tho best time any hui
man being ever made. or you are a
g1ncr SURF, Don't climb a sapllng, for
boar would soon dig II up By the
roots and then rip you 10 pieces Don't
i'fEet when hunting old bears TO keep
near a tree which you can climb quick.
When three OF the most Intelligent
NN.NHH a
uhe me on boar hunt l accepted
i1lily enough, but had no idea what
KIND OF sport and excitement I was 20
ne 70 have. ia heard hunters tell ~
we danger In shooting those boara but
discounted half what they said FOR |
never believed hog such as we see
around our ranches could ever grow
" Nvcly and fierce az the hunters told
soout l had no idea II would beat
pear hunting. so the Yuma half-brccds
ana got up early one morning. while
We were down the river. and went up
no sparsely settled foothill district.
70 drop over, a. ! supposed. a hog or
VIZ W the course Of the day, II was
h.ah when we got among the trees
ihAt some swine had been feeding there,
wv We could not see hide or bristle OF
Wen We turned the big dogs loose
aul IN less than twenty minutes we
n,Hl a deep bay over on the right
sNgul quarter OF n mile.
IN a few minutes l heard crash
W lhe underground, and a savage grunt
slg snort and out started big SOW
va TWO half-grown pigs. Just ~ the
~ appeared over a alight elevation,
stoAl 100 feet away | fired and keeled
Nv over The pigs stood still n minute
uNN lnoy caught sight of me, when
Wy charged turlously. I knocked ona
y Nom over before they had made %
ret but the other kept right on, the
,,lg picture OF Economical rage, with
,ln nylng from his Jaws and his
Ttn ana tusks swapping like castinets.
Llohly ! had myself placed under a
oN ofanched live oak tree. and lost
nv llm1 M putting myself out OF the
vs A,h % the savage beast. The tree
w a thick, spreading oak and / was
.ai' enough TO take things easy. had
m 9hg my Winchester over my should
Welofe / aacended the tree and one
rom my gun settled the hog.
4, nuuul sV0 yards away / could see
'gN, ny Yuma savage leaning against
in'plng which was not over Q or 8
,ahh OF the hogs, Jack drew away from
U,,e, Just as tremendous old boar
W. va out OF the underbrush about 30
mus distant. Jack saw him coming
~. y literal cyclone, and, without con-
~ lns, shot at him, The shot struck
n 80. Jury between the eyes, but
enl as well have been fred into
b,TWioh'lor for all the harm It did. The
otbn- nettened. like putty and did no
snr,. usinase than 10 more thoroughly
dt'Nse the boar When he saw the In.
fIr ~ gave fierce snort and started
,g',, I'm with the foam Tying from his
ibs and his fierce little yes CLINT
r0 WIN devillsh foroolty. Jack had
iDl,, Iine 70 reload his gun, which was a
br.sch loader, and II It had been a
snly have forgotten Inc fact in hia tep-
however. he didn't forget Matters