The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-22
TEDDY SHOT WILD hoes
ROosEvELTs HUNT FOR JAvELINEs
HAS WON A GOOD DEMO-
CRATIC VOTE
LONG RIDE FOR THE SPORT
Made the Trip From New York to
Texas for One Days Shooting
Took Home Some
Trophies.

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Texas for One Days Shooting
Took Home Some
Trophies.
Tom B. Castleman, a prominent ranch
man of Zavalia county, Texas, is here on
business with the state land Office, writes
the Austin correspondent of the Chicago
Record He states that although he has
been lifelong Democrat he will vote for
| mckinley because Roosevelt is on the
ticket He has the greatest admiration
Tor the character and courage of Roese-
yelt, and his conception of these quail
ties come from a personal experience and
acquaintance with the rough rider candi-
date for vice president
Several years ago." Mr.. Castleman
said, L was in New York city on rs
mess. had friend who knew Mr.
| Roosevelt, who at that time was a police
commissioner of the city of New York
In that way I met the distinguished gen
ueman and we had quite social con-
Versation. 1 was struck with his knowl-
edge of ranch affairs and the Western
country. 1t seemed to me that I was
talking to a veteran West Texas cowman
When he had explained to me that he had
a ranch in Montana, where he spent much
of his time, could account for his knowI-
edge of the rough life of the West. Our
talk turned to hunting experiences and he
related some of his exciting encounters
with bears and other big animals of the
Rockies. Now, down in my county,
there are thousands of javelines, or wild
hno oV,l fIoo-v L.
mails sportsman ever tackled In fact,
they are so dangerous that few hunters
have the courage to go after them and
they are left severely alone by the sports
men who visit that section in search of
deer and wild turkeys. I asked Mr..
Roosevelt if he had ever hunted the jaw
cline. He replied that he had not and
asked for information concerning their
proclivities from a. sportsman's stand
point. After had pictured the vicious
fights made on hunters by the wild boars
ne remained silent aln1inute, and, turning
to me, said:
II you will agree to pilot me to the
running ground of these wild hogs I'll
take run down and see you when 1 get
little leisure
ARRANGED FOR "TRIP.
II assured him that it would give me
| great pleasure to have him for my guest
on my Texas ranch, and after he had
taken my address, we parted. I returned
to my home, and the conversation had
| passed entirely out of my mind until it
was recalled by a telegram which 1 re-
| ce1Ved one morning from Mr.. Roosevelt.
It was dated New York, and simply ask
ed me to meet him at Sabinal
| on arrival of the west bound
| California train on the Southern
! Pacific on a day which he named. You
! may be sure l was surprised, but was on
| hand when the train arrived. I hardly
| recognized Mr.. Roosevelt when he came
| up and greeted me-. He was dressed like
| a real frontiersn3an, including high-heel
| boots, corduroy clothes and big SLOUGH
| hat He carried his hunting case In his
| hand, and that was the only baggage
he had. led the way to the two-horse
blackboard, and after we were seated and
ready to start he asked me how far it
was to the javelines L had supposed he
had come all the way from New York
to spend some tine-several days at least
hunting with me, but he informed; me
that ne mad to leave on that nights train
for New York and could only spend one
day hunting wild hogs He would not
accept my pressing invitation to spend
several days as my guest, and when
saw he could not be moved from his ORR
glnal decision drove direct to the run
upper course of the Leona river.
After few hours of hard driving we
reached the spot where there were fresh
signs of javelines having foraged there
abouts. l told Mr.. Roosevelt that tho
bears We're SO vicious that they had been
known to tear a man to pieces with
their -tusks and advised him to be
cautious when he came upon the animals
Tying the horse to a mesquite bush we
started out in search of the wild hogs
The trail separated and 1 followed it in
one direction, sWhile Mr. Roosevelt took
the other branch of it, We had not
been parted fifteen minutes when / heard
several reperts{ef his repeating rifle. The
reports were in rapid succession aad
knew he had run into a drove of lave
lines and was up against them hard 7
rushed forward as fast as 1 could go
and just before Il sreached him I heard
pistol shots coming from his direction.
BATTLE WITH WILD BoARs.
when got to the little clearing where
l could see what was going on 1 saw Mr..
Roosevelt standing there with his back
against scrubbY I4e-oak tree. punnino
bullets from Els revolver into a NAM
moth wild boar that was lunging at him
with his long tusks. The boar had al
ready tore the tops of Mr. Rooseyelt's
boots into shreds and did not seem to
mind the bullets that We're being rapidlv
planted into his body. It is an old saw
ing that it takes a pound of lead tn kill
javeliue, and Mr.. Roosevelt vowed
that he must have put that much metal
into that old animal. took careful aim
with my Winchester and sent a bullet
through the boar's heart and he gave IN
the ghost. Lying around the tree within
radius of ten yards were four other
large javelines, which Mr. Roosevelt had
killed before the old boar had cornered
him. Several small pigs which were In
the drove had Scampered into the under
bush 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 imagina-
BILE. 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 1 drove
Mr.. Roosevelt back to SabinaI and he
took the evening train for New York
Just think, he rode all that distance to
enjoy the excitement of a javeline hunt
He made another quick trip to the same
section few months later and spent only
one day and killed several javelines.
next saw him at San Antonio, when he
was there with hisrough riders regiment
at the outbreak of the Spanish-American
war. He told me he was going to visit
me again when he, got back from the
war, but he has been so busy with poll
tics since then that he has not done so.
I wouldn't be surprised however, to re-
ceive a telegram from him any day tell
ing me tc meet him at Sabinal and go