The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-18

ming grounds of the javelines along the
upper course of the Leona river. After
a few hours of hard driving we reached
a spot where there were fresh signs of
the javelines having fOraged therea
bouts. / told Mr.. Roosevelt that the
boars were so vicious that they had
been known to tear a man to pieces
with their tusks. and advise d him to be
cautious when he came upon the ami
mails. Tying the horses To a mesquite
bush we started out in search of the
wild hogs.
The trail separated and fol owed IL
In one direction. while Mr.. Roosevelt
took the other branch of 1T. We had
not parted fifteen minutes when heard
several reports of his repeating rifle.
The reports were in rapid succession,
and I knew he had run into a drove of
tavelines and was up against them
hard. i rushed forward as fast as /
could go and just before I reached him
I heard pistol shots coming from his
direction. When / got to the little
clearing where I could see what was
going on / saw Mr.. Roosevelt standing
there with his back against a scrubby
live-oak tree pumping bullets from his
revolver into mammoth wild boar
that was funging at him with his long
tusks. The boar had already torn the
tops OF Mr.. RooseveIt's boots into
shreds and did not seem to mind the
bullets that were being rapidly planted
into his body. IL is an old saying that
IL takes a pound of lead to kill a jave-
line. and Mr.. Roosevelt vowed that he
must have put that much lead into the
old animal. / took careful aim with M
Winchester and sent n bullet through
the boar's heart and he gave up the
ghost. Lying around the tree within a
radius OF ten yatds were four other
large javelines which Mr.. Roosevelt
had killed before the old boar had cor
nered him. Several pigs which were in
the grove had scampered into the I'M
derbrush when the shooting began. Mr..
Roosevelt did not seem to realize the
chances he had taken in firing into the
drove OF wild hogs, and the excitement
of the vicious attack made by the old
boar gave him the greatest pleasure
Imaginable. He cut out the great tusks
of the boar and took them home with
him as trophies of the hunt. We failed
to come across any more javelines and
| drove Mr.. Roosevelt back to Sabinal
and he took the. evening train for New
York.
Just think, he rode all that distance
to enjoy the excitement of a javeline
hunt. lie made another quick trip &c
the same section a few months later
and spent only one day and killed sew
eral javeiines. / next saw him at San
Antonio when ne was there with his
Rough Rider regiment at the outbreak
Of the Spanish-American war. He TOLD
me ne was going to visit me agar
when he got back from the war, bu
he has been so busy with politics since
then that he has not done so. / would
not be surprised, however. to receive {
telegram from him any day telling ms
to meet him at Sabinal and go javelin
hunting with him. He is one of tn
most fearless hunters / have eve
, known. and 1 am pretty well acquaint
ed with some mighty good sportsmel
i'm Texas. / am not the only Democra
I'm my section who is going to vote 70
him for Vice President. Every cOwma1
! in Texas admires him, and most o
them are going to cast their vote TO
, the Republican ticket because Mi
Roosevelt Is on it."-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.