Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29
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advice Ho skinned up tree, but.
unlucklly, Il was "a napling barely big
enough 10 bear his weight The boar
didn't stop IN his charge, but ran fun
TIT into the sapling, shaking II 30 bad
" that the Indian had all he could do
10 hang on.
when the boar found he couldn't
knock the tree down by sheer force he
deliberately went 10 work In another
way. He walked around the trce three
or four times, until he seemed to have
found n spot In which TO begin opera
tons, when he stopped and began TO
dig and tear up the ground with his
long snOut, and to tear and bite OF the
roots with his long tuakn IL was plain
~ evident that something would have
to be done pretty quick or our mess
would be one short. Poor Jock was
hanging on and yelling with all his
might. and every yen appeared 90 add
to the rage uf the boar,
calling 10 Jack 10 stop yelling ana
to hang to the tree l prepared TO let
the brute have a bullet The distance
was about 100 yards and aa II took u
close shot 20 eject anything against
tho tough hide Of nm old boar. I made
preparations by standing on "a big limb
OF the live oak tree and resting my gun
on another, about on a level with my
shoulders. My first shot struck tho
boar behind the shoulder. but as he had
result was 10 tear out a big piece OF his
hide along his side inficting painful.
but not dangerous wound. When the
boar felt the sting OF tho bullet he
made for the tree I was In. lilo must
either have caught glimpse ~ mo
or have seen the smoke Of the shot.
Calling 90 the Indian 10 slip down out
OF the little tree and make FOR a bg
one, | turned my attention 10 the boar.
when he came up 1 saw that he was
a tremendous old fellow with tuaks at
least 6 inches In length. His eyes glls-
tened with rage, and his bristlcs stood
out like wires 49, he charged the tree
and began TO tear the bark In great
chips from It's sides for several feet
above the ground. After tearing away
for several minutes the brute stopped
and began 10 root up tho ground and
but evidently saOn satisfied himself
that they were too large and too nu-
meroua 10 dispose OF IN that way, and
he again went TO the body OF the tree.
There was no danger OF his succeeding
In that undertaking. hut. after watch
ing him for a short timo, determined
to finish the affalr. II took half a
dozen shots az close range TO Kill the
brute, and am satifcd there would not
have been one chance In ten OF escaping
that way had been on the ground.
THE whip-lilge cracks OF guns of TO
my other half-bfeed Indian companions.
were also having their share Of the
sport. ! got down and went 10 tho tree
where Jack was roostlng and told him
to come down, as tho old boar was
dead. We quietly approached the quar-
ter from which the sound Of the shoot
Ing came, ana about 800 yards distant
we suddenly saw little opening about
100 yards In circumference. on the or
positc slide Of this. opening We saw a
widespread llyeOak, from which puffs
OF smoke were slowly drifting upward.
Beneath and around tho tree were
about a dozen wild hogs, snorting and
grunllng with rage, and creating u pan
demonium OF sounds M they bit and
tore at the tree ana tried 10 reach the
men by Jumping upward. Three Of the
lot were tremendous bears while the
others were sows and half-grown pigs.
Selecting a tree within easy shooting
distance. Jack and ! climbed into It's
branches and opened FIRE. In n few
minutes not living hog could be seen.
and as none OF them had undertaken to
run away, we knew that between ua We
had wiped out the lot When we went
to the tree Ben and John had descended.
and were standing In the center OF
ring OF thirteen hogs. John was un-
armed and he explained the fact by
saying that when he fred his first shot
he was some distance away from the
tree and had been pursued 30 closely
that he was forced 10 drop his gun In
order to make the tree In which Ben
had climbed as soon az he saw the big
drove coming.
I'VE Killed seventeen wild hogs, Ave
Of which were boars OF the largest size.
II was. said Ben, the biggest slaughter
" wild hogs he had taken part IN for
several years. We knocked the tuals
out Of the Jaws OF the biggest bears
with a hatchet which Ben carried In his
belt. and when we measured them We