Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08
} HARE AND HOUNDS

Stockmen throughout the state COM
plain of the damage done by coyotes and
wolves, and have come to the conclusion
that the only way to keep them down
is to hunt them with hounds. There is
quite a demand for greyhounds of fair
size for this purpose. Levi Cartier was
in town last week, boasting Of the great
performances of a pair he has, though
he was looking for one or two more to
help them, as the coyotes are getting
too strong for them as the season wears
on. Two hounds are hardly enough, as
a big male coyote Will put up a fight tha
will leave them with too many cuts to
nurse. while three or four dogs will do
the trick without being materially dam
aged.
Some Butte gentlemen who were out
with him, report that Levi goes out in a
blackboard witt a team Of handy little
bronchos, which put their ears back and
run away the moment he shouts
"coyote!' Thereafter it is cut of the
question to stop or guide the ponies, so
Lewis friends are obliged to devote their
time to holding on in order to avoid be-
ing thrown out Of the rig, and to pray
ing that they may not strike too big a
badger hole, or ''Thank-you-marm.''
Frank COnley of Deer Lodge has this
thing systematized. He has a low two
Wheeled cart, with wheels like those of
a gun carriage, to which he drives a
pair of chunky ponies. They, too, break
like a fire team when Frank ~'raises the
long YELL" but are not SO bad but that
he can guide them to a certain extent.
He carries his dogs in a big wagon with
a crate on it. Coyotes a V an innocent
yK-n " ~ 3 ttt,r l~--n -l
wagon or two approaching, of which
Frank takes a mean advantage by
ambling toward them in an aimless way
that deceives the coyotes completely.
When the right point is reached, the dog
wagon slews tail on toward the coyotes
at a gallop, a string is pulled, a door
opened, and a dozen hounds pour out
like slipping down a chute. They hit the
ground running, to a dog, and before
the poor coyote has time to figure out
what sort of game he is up against, the
hounds are so close up on his brush that
a comparatively short race sees his
finish.
1t makes a mans hair stand on end to
"slither' down a hill in the cart with
FRANK; in fact. most people, after one
run, jump out as soon as the dog wagon
begins its maueuVer, and watch the
race from the ground, which looks safer,
though Frank has not killed anyone yet.
Before Frank "evoluted'' his present
scheme. the boys used to go out on horse
back. with the hounds following, but the
coyotes got SO wise that when
the word was passed that that
cheap gang of sports from
from Deer Lodge is out today." every
coyote hunted his hole. But they see so
many wagon that it seems they cannot
learn to distinguish the one that is
loaded" so Frank kills coyotes by the
dozen every winter. and gives his visitors
!, sport so exciting as to be positively poie-
nant. Galloping across a snow-covered
prairie in a cart is not so dangerous as
it looks. but when Frank draws rein his
, companion is sure he knows how il feels
t to stake his life on the hazard of q
, die!"
A. w. Jones Montana Jack made his
: first start in a Francisco last weel
t in the Wednesday stake, winning tw1
courses and being beaten by Sisonoc :,
r he third round. lack il fast. and will