El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-19
THE HUNTERS BACK
THE Ell. PASOANS WHO
WENT BOATING AT YUMA
Full of Stories About Their Per-
ilous Experience.-A Big Noun
tain Sheep.

1.-The fore legs of a mountain sheep
killed by G. E. (Henry) Kelly in the
Cacapah range in Lower California
near the Gulf. 1t was the the largest
mountain sheep ever seen in this sec
ton of the country"
legs described and they are curiosi-
ty. They are on exhibition at Kelly
and Pollard's drug store.
The party of hunters who left FL
Paso a little over two weeks ago for
Lower California returned last night
and report one of the greatest hunt
ing trips ever taken by Ell Paso parties.
There were three in the party. c. E.
Kelly George Gather. and J. III. Boone.
They went as far as Yuma, Arizona.
by rail and there took a boat and en-
gagged a Mexican guide and cook and
started down the Colorado river for
the Gulf They killed any amount of
game and very seldom left the river
for more tina none or two miles.
They had one experience that they
will never forget and it was described
to a Herald reporter this morning by
Messrs. Gather and Kelly as follows:
1.-The river often cuts new channels
across the country that shorten the
distance several miles. We were sail
ing down the river one afternoon
channel that / have never taken but l
believe that by taking it we will cut
off Is or 20 mics We were soon in
the channel which was then only a few
feet wide but the current was very
swift and in short time we were in
a large lake several miles wide and
how long we could not tell. We float
ed around for some time trying to find
an outlet but although We got into
several currents there was no outlet to
be found.
1--WE saw several islands and ducks
in fiocks of 1000 or 5000 were no sight
at all.
Finally we heard an awful roaring
of falling water and knew that there
were some rapids some where. We had
our guide strip off his clothing and
swim around to see if we could get
through the rapids. He came back
and said that we could get pretty close
to the falls but that it would be dan
gerous to try to run the rapids.
He had no more than got back in
the boat when it whirled around with
the stern in front and shot like an ar
row into the rapids. 1t was useless
to try to get out, and 1 (Gaither), sit
ting in the stern which was then the
bow, with a paddle kept us straight.
Mr.. Boone and the Mexican wanted to
risk getting outand going back but it
would then have taken us two days
to go back to the main river and
away around.
1.-The rapids were something awful
and the way we shot through them was
a caution. Mr.. Boone said, Boys, this
is getting dangerous
Here Mn Kelly broke in and said,
Il was glad to hear Boone say that
for l was thinking the same way and
wanted the opinion expressed but did
not want to express it myself"
Continuing Mr.. Gather said: Just
as night was coming down on us we
got through the rapids into the river
and Henry Kelly jumped out of the
boat with a rope and pulled us to a
landing where we camped that night"
At one time they threw two sticks
of dynamite into the river and then
went out and gathered about three
hundred pounds of fish and only took
about half of what they had killed.
At supper one evening after Henry
Kelly had eaten a whole fish, two
quails and duck and was just start
ing in on some spare-ribs of a wild
hog. the Mexican cook went to Mr..
Gather and told him to speak to Mr.