Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-08
HOUNDS SNIFF
At TIN "HARES"
AMUSING RESULTS OF ATTEMPT
ED COMPROMISE WITH
HUMANE SOCIETY.
SOME INNOVATIONS BY
COURSING ENTHUSIASTS.
Many Dogs Are Being Sent Away by
Their Owners to Earn a Little
Winter Feed.

Butte owners of the long, lean hounds
whose excuse for existence is a remark
able ability to overhaul the fleet Jack
rabbit have outlined a new programme
for the winter. A number of grey hounds
are being sent way to try to earn a little
Christmas feed.
j. E.. Hosking's King Cashier Battle
Royal-Brunette) has departed for San
Francisco, where he will be in the hands
OF Fred ;. Price. who trains for Lopez &
Son n G. H. Macdougall, and is re-
sarded as one of the best trainers in the
business. Tom Craps Fitz-Regina
tFitzsimnlons-Regina). a good winner
here, is going to Cripple Creek shortly.
Coursing seems to have taken hold well
at Cripple Creek, where there is a nice
park and coursing every Sunday. Jack
Wesson. formerly of Butte, go second
money there the other day, with Dewey,
a dog bred IN Butte, by Snowball-Ma
gle, and litter brother to Harry Nichols
game little bitch. Ruby. Dewey ran here
once or twice as a puppy, and showed
some promise. He had not seen hares
enough to learn his business before he
left here, but appeared to have a fair
amount of speed and plenty of pluck; he
came honestly by the latter quality, for
his sire and dam both had pluck to spare.
They are also coursing again in Dem
Yer. after a fight with the humane So
ciety that lasted seven or eight years.
The results of this fight were ridiculous,
when they weren't painful. At first
they pulled off a couple of stakes there
and at Colorado Springs with the grey
hounds muzzled. If the dogs caught the
hares. they could only hold them with
their paws and try to kill them with
their muzzles, while the hares screamed
like frightened cables. Then fine grey
hound got his muzzle off, and ran with it
hanging to his neck. He caught it in the
fence and got so frightful a fall tina
it put a stop to the whole thing. The
next step was to try an artificial hare.
They had a stuffed jack-very badly
stuffed-mounted on a pair of runners
made of telegraph wire. The motive
power was furnished by a husky COL
ored gentleman, who turned the crank of
an eight-foot wheel and wound up a fine
coppe wire, which pulled the sled. The
escape was a curtained arrangement of
gunnysacks, into which the hare" dis
appeared, and at the curtain stood a COL
ored guardian angel with a club to
keep back dogs. Of too investigating a
turf of mind ~
I Some Montana hounds took part in
this comedy. One of them went off with
a rush that brought him near enough the
hare to see what it was; then he slack
ened to a deliberate canter down the
course while the crowd cheered him like
mad, because, as they said, You can't
fool that big fellow with any tin
jack!'" Another. a younger hound, was
determined to see what the beast was,
and when the guardian angel swung
the club at him, rave IN exhibition of
inch and a half fangs that made him lose
interest in his job for a moment, and
walked stif1y by into the holy of holies."
He took one sniff at the "hare' and re-
turned to his master with disgust ap-
parent in every hair, saying in dog Ian
guage, BOSS, let's go back to old Mon
tana. A country where they breed hares
like that is no fit place for a self-respect-
ing hound!"
They had some hOundS in this stake
that had been used for similar exhibit
tons in New Orleans the winter pre-
Viously, that probably thought there
was no other kind of hare and ran with
some spirit. OF the "s~ure-enough'
coursing hounds, only the young ones
would make much effort, the older ones
losing interest after one trial. The audi
ence enjoyed it, apparently, judging from
their bowls of laughter, and the only
man who could not reconcile himself to
the flake" was the judge, who declared
that he would not decide any race in
which the hound We're not trying when
they passed the wire. 1t was necessary,
toward the end, to move the wire about
a third of the way up the course, as the
mound began to slack up further from
the escape with every heat. and in some
cases three or four trials were necessary
to get them under the wire in a run, The