Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-06-16
NO DISTRIBUTING ron HIM.
Too Much Like Strengthening a HUI
man, says This Man.

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The man who had been up north
deer hunting had got back alive, and
he had invited half dozen friends
into a saloon to celebrate the event.
None of them had ever been deer
shooting, and after they had taken
the first drink he said to them:
Boys, sometimes the feeling may
come over you that you would like to
go and hunt deer, and If it does, try
and argue with yourself against it.
There is not money enough in the
world to induce me to go again. i
like the woods, and if / could go up
there some time when the shooting
season is not on, with camera and 4
shotgun to kill few cartridges. l
would like to go with my wife apd
some boys and girls, but to go off
a a With a gang of men who walk
all day and play poker all night, you
must excuse me- Say, we might as
Well have been in the Philippines as
far as danger was Concerned. for there
was constant firing and skirmishing,
and more than a dozen bullets went
through the lumber shack we were
occupying. When we arrived at the
station we had to drive twenty miles
in a lumber wagon, and do you think
those murderers would wait till morn
ing before starting? Not on your
life. They hooked up at -: 80 in the
morning, and drove over logging
road till 9 O'Clock, with nothing to
ea ut a pan of cans. Work. We
worked harder than I ever did in my
life, and the second day the law was
off we were ready to shoot, but be-
fore we were ready fifteen or twenty
fellows from Ohio and Indiana camp
ed a mile or two up the river, begar
banging right and left, into the wood
and bullets whistled around US only
two of our fellows went out at all. !
did not shoot gun the whole ten
days, and as l couldn't play poker, ]
had a lovely time. A mans life was
not safe for a minute. Those fellows
shoot if they see a leaf move, and run
to see if they have killed a deer. ii
they find they Lave shot man they
Will not stay by the wounded man
and try to save his life, but go of
and leave him to die alone, for fear
they would be arrested. o, the horror
OF 1t all is something L cannot de-
scribe. Two cOrpSeS came down on
the train L did of men killed for deer.
Porcupines ate my boots, and some
thing ate one leg off my trousers.
There were two pirates in our party
who wanted blood, and one day we
heard them shoot down near camp
and finally they yelled for me to
Cutie uOMn WITH lantern. IL was
just dusk, and | said my prayers and
took a lantern and started. When
got there they had found a wounded
doe they had shot, and one of the
butchers was about to cut her throat
L wanted to go away, as she tried to
raise up, and she bIeated so pitifully
that the tears came to my eyes, but
did not want to be considered baby
so l stayed to see it out, but if God
h II l. L.
The doe seemed to think L was the on
~ one in the party that had any
heart, and she looked up at me witt
the most beautiful eyes l ever saw,
except the eyes of the girl L love,
and there were tears in her eyes, if
know tears when L see them. One of
my friends, put his knee on the neck
of that beautiful creature, and held it
down, and took a knife and placed
the point on her beautiful throat, as
murderer might on the throat of the
most beautiful woman, YOU could ever
see, and there was cut in the flesh
the blue blood came out in torrents,
the body heaved, the deer cried and
the life blood went out, and / felt as
though l had stood at the deathbed of
a beautiful child, and watched the
last heaving of the bosom as the last
breath came from a sigh almost hui
man. l wanted to go away, and cry,
but those heather would never have
let me hear the last of it, so l STAYED
but so help me heaven L did nothing
but carry the lantern, and L hated
those fellows who dragged that beau
uful creature up to camp. They
were covered with blood. and seemed
to glory in it, like men you have read
about who have killed somebody. The
boys worked all the evening, skinning
that beauty, and talked of how they
plugged her in the foreleg, and in the
stomach, and how she fell down and
bleated, and got up again and tried
to get away, until my brain reeled
L went to bed. and never slept a wink
all night Even now. in my dreams
l see that place in the woods. dim
ly lighted by the lantern, and the
tragedy enacted there. 1 can see the
appalling look of those beautiful
brown eyes, and it is a wonder / did
not stand between them and their
victim, and make them stand back,
and let her CO. Well, the bows sent
me a piece of the venison from that
doe when we got home but might as
well have attempted a piece of my
sweet heart / am no cannibal. Do
you know, / find it hard work to
speak to my two friends who muir
dered that deer? If I ever go to the
legislature. / shall introduce a bill to
make it murder to kill a deer