The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-16
TRF MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JANUARY 10, 1900


., but they are not considered Of much
clue, aside from being curiOsities. They
ave not furry hides nor is their meat
much value.
Nowhere can the buffalo be studied 70
otter advantage than I'm This hero ~ the
tIathead reservation. There the animal
TO be seen In almost a ma ural colu4ltOu.
le nos a free range; the country. hougn,
Jet mis- own. is admirably adapted 20 his
labits and he thrives there. The sight Of
this nerd is no novelty to those old-tim-
rs Who have seen bands tina, mum Dered
hundreds of thousands, but 10 the man
Who has never seen buffalo on the range
ne visit is an extremely interesting one.
The animals are sluggish and not as cas-
" stampeced, perhaps. as those that used
0 roam at Will on the Eastern prairies,
'ut they are not at all sociable and do
not readily cultivate human acquaintances.
As we approached these vagrant bulls on
ms afternoon. the problem was as to
whether or not we could get within shoot
ing distance of them withsthe camera. Joe
Houlle said that this would be easy, but
he half-breed driver who had accom-
panied US had his doubts and expressed
them freely.
Good Subjects.
''Ycu'H see dass bull, he ran. Mebbe you
get close dass bull he fight. Dass be bad,
eh?' That would certainly be bad, but
We accepted Houlle's opinion as the cor
rect one, and the camera was unpacked
and set up for action Houlle drove his
horses to within fifty feet Of the big fell
lows. and they paid no more attention to
the team than to look inquiringly at 1t.
one bull that was lying down arose laz-
ily and another wallOwed in the dust, but
none of the four manifested any Gesire to
leave. Then 1t occurred to us that the
half-breeds prediction might have been
only getting ready to charge us when the
camera should be set up. But we had to
take the chances, AL ghtrg on the further
side of the wagon, the camera was made
ready, and was focused upon the ungainly
animals. Still, they paid no attention to
the camera or its operators. One exposure
was made, and then another. The buffalo
seemed to like it. Then, emboldened by
success, we approached to within thirty
feet of the big fellows They looked curl
ously at us, but that was all, and we
made some more pictures. 1t was easier
than photographng Indians, and the buC-
falo did not ask for copies of the picture.
We were able to get within thirty feet of
the biggest bull in the bunch, and he
stood there like a trained model. He turn
ed his head toward the camera and stood
like statue till the shutter was dropped.
He was the best subject that we found.
When we had made half a dozen pic
lures of these big animals, we set out to
find the larger band. Houlle was certain
that we would find them somewhere
around the Big Butte. He had seen them
there two days before and was sure that
they had not left that part of the valley.
So we drove around the Big Butte. We
looked at 1t from the north, the south.
the east and the west. but we found no
buffalo. "Dass funny" said the halfbreed,
and Houlle said that he thought If was
funny too Int he 6idn,t look as If he
spoke the truth We drove abo1t twenty
miles over tbe nrairia following cattle
trails most Of the wav. hunting for those
buffalo
Houlle's stag hounds followed us. rang
ing here and there for signs of coyote.
rms photograph business was too much
TOT them. Ihey could only imagine that
we were AFTER coyotes ard yet the wagon
was a queer thIng 10 chase coyotes IN,
stun they ranged, ana on the south slope
OF the quite, Standing On ridge overlook
ing runway TO the river, the halforeei
spled one or the sneaking beasts. lie
showed the animal TO aOule, and the lat
ter hallooed TO the hounds They were
on ike bullets, and the coyote took the
mint. He settled down TO business Ii
was well that he did. The yellow stag
hound, Dewey by name, ran like quar-
ter horse. His black companion trailad
him closely and then ensued as pretty
''iNA+N--NN'
coyote ala MS Deft, ana hunted the otner
side of the butte. 1t was useless to at
tempt to follow win the heavy wagon,
and the hounds, discouraged by the ab-
sence OF their master relinquished the
chase, after having given The wolf run
of three miles. Mr.. Coyote escaped, but
the incident served to cheer UP HouIle,
who took UP the search for the buffalo in
better humor than he had manifested for
an hour. But he constantly lamented the
fact that the hounds had not killed the
coyote He would nave had a dead WOLF
If he had only brought along saddle
horse. That was all that the dogs needed.
Snapshots at the Herd.
while ba WAS fins 1an,an+ipo no esnia6
,b, hnfroio a hord of tfftI, or more The,
ura,a slorI,, u,orl,irp their v,av I'm from
~ 49,, 20 ,io,1 T,hore tba,, bad baar, Cor
Uatar ond we're hure,ed when we s9,y
thar, an Enc slo,,e Of Tho butte thai we
bad Daesed an hoi,r before In this hand
NO. q fer hnHs LOT of cows and a
n,t,1har of celIlas Tbe nrasence Of tho
- Mo rho cows a lin eb1, and we