El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-27


and K. b. aol sman, of the Sierra Ma
Dire line, Joined by E. s. Stephens,
agent OF the Sierra Madre line and >.
p. Ross, the wrought iron range man,
of Casss Grandes, composed party
that went out hunting from Casss
Grandes the other day They report
festhered game very plentiful all along
the line and especially on the San Mi
guel river.
Recently there has been several
heavy rains all along the Sierra Madre
line and large bodies of water are left
standing all around In that country.
On these pools are countless numbers
%: big mallard ducks, making q rich
harvest for hunters. The best, they
say, however is on the San Miguel
d bove Guadalupe. Here she myriads
of Dig mallards make hunting an ca
jOyable and exciting pastime. They
saw there are but few teal duck in that
region.
The party came back deliahted with
= = outing and toe success Of the hunt
AID each member IL telling stories on
cne or more of the others. O1e of the
o.rty tells the following on Capt.
) NTH and Mr.. Leo aard:
Capt. Smith is an excellent shot, ;"
: id he, land under ordinary circu N
stances can tell q duck as far as he Gao
zee IL and Kill it almost the same dis
lance. But Stephens and Ross, who
i5ined Us at Casas Gcandes took with
hem fine lunch, one that would
make a dead man rise up and ask to
e counted In, and with IL they had
I'VE gallon can of fresh milk. II had
oeen many day since | tasted such
delicious milk as that. After lunch
and the hunting stories had been pass
ed around, the Captain and Leonard
started out for the river to see II they
couldn't End some ducks. They hadn't
been gone long until we heard a heavy
cRnnouading over in their dire Stion
and all made for the river TO help
count the ducks. When We reached
the spot where the shooting occurred
water to get duck that the captain
mad shot. The water was pretty cool
and he would take a step and cay
'whew" for the water prod uced al IN
pleasant sens alton as II came in contact
with HE body. he secured the game
ard wading to the bsnk he held itup
where we ell could see and said,
Won't he make a flee dinner We all
burst out in q laugh, the captain join
! ing in, for he saw as the rest of US did
that what he had killed thinking is
was a duck was nothing but an old
blue pete. The captain could be eX-
cused howeve-, for q feast OF good
things such a. the boys had brouR bt
from Cssas Grspdes, washed down with
blurring of any mans eyes"
That is nothing to what Holeman
and Ross did," said another OF the
party. They went about five miles
up the river while the rest of Us -taid
close to that milk. After long walk
they dropped down on the river bank
behind q clump of bushes to rest, when
pretty soon around bend in the river
there came swimming peacefully q
long . big flock Of mAllsrds. The boy
admit that there WAS AZ least twenty
| five OF them but / am inclined to be-
| lieve there was seventytve or a hun
dred. The flock sailed right along
close to the boys, following the current
of the stream which came right up
against the bank on the side next TO
them. Holemsn acknowledges that he
could have almost reached out and
grabbed one of them by the neck.
When they had just passed the boys
then turned loose both barrels Of their
guns at them. There was chorus of
excited quacks, q hutsering of wings
and the ducks sailed away, every last
one OF them. All that they left behind
was quite lot of feathers. Which
one did you shoot at?' asked Holemau
of Ross. That old drake on this side,
answered Ross, which one did you
shoot st?' Il shot at the old drake on
this gside, too',s answered Holemsn.
We'll, Iii oct he's as naked as the day
he was born said Ross.
Agent Stephens of Sierra Madre line
must take his turn as the butt of one
OF the good stories the members OF the
party tell on each other. You see,
/ began the man who told me the joke
Oh Stephens, there is but little hunt
iog in that wild region compared with
the amount OF game that makes 1t their
home, consequently the game Is not
very wild. 1t was Stephens time TO
/ watch the team and the rest of us were
over on the river killing ducks. We
heard shot from the direct on OF the
wagon and thought Stephens was pro-
badly In need OF help and was call y
us in. BE was pretty anxious TO be
leaving that region anyway, for he
was thinking Of the good things in
store for him over at Grandpa Morti-
sons place. Morrison IL a Mormon
rancher, native of Denmark, a nd lives
With mis- two wives at Guads lupe. And
his wives make the beet butter snd
che e-e | have tasted. We had decid-
ed to GO to- his house for the night and
Stephens WAS in q hurry to tackle
some of that good cheese and butter.
But that was not the cause of his shoot
| ing a. we learned upon reaching the
wagon. When he came up he sad.
Here, some Of you fellows hold the
team; ! have killed an antelope over
there and want to go and get him.
'By this time the shades OF night
were falling and Stephens and the
fellow who went To help him bring in
the anteloDe could not tell much about
the animal, so they brought the csrcas s
to the wagon, threw him in and we
drnrn on old Mnrl i-nnfa xalnnn L.