The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-05-11
GOING AFTER BIG CINE
CAPTURING LIVE SPECIMENS IN
THE ROCKIES FOR THE
CHICAGO EXHIBIT
DAREDEVIL, PER1IoUs TASK
Risking Life and Limb in the RAJ
vines and Gullies-Unfortun:te
Experience OF ..Huf-
falo. Jones.

hirty mountaineers, hunters and
Woodsmen are now at work in the viii est
parts of the continent bent Oh CUP
turing alive specimens of big game All
mails for the coming exhibitor il Chi
1 eago OF the products OF the wate, and
the woods, says the Chicago Tribune =
Jack Monroe and his partner started
out week ago from their ONE n the
Biackfoot Indian reservation in northern
i Montana and ars now well over the line
! OF the British possessions in the highest
] part of the mountain coun ~. T:oy
i nave gone to capture, if possible some
| mountain sheep and mountain go3ty,
/ which are among he rarest OF American
/ animals. OF the Two the mountain goat
/ Is the hardest to approach. and there is
only one way to catch either OF them.
/ They must be followed ty dogs an
| driven into some gulley where the snow
! Is soft and deep, so that they will sink
| through and be unable to eNtri ate
/ themselves. Both goats and sheep I've
high up on the icy peaks where men AMI
dogs have the hardest kind of work to
| climb, and they go on the jump whe-e d
man must crawl at full length. The
| sheep are extremely timid and equally
wary, and will get away to an inacces-
sible height of it if given half chance
| The goat. on the other hand is afraii
OF nothing alive. Ii rarely runs and
thinks nothing Of cutting couple of
dogs to pieces with Its short, sharp
horns The traditional gentleman who
sought the needle in the hays;ack hal
an easy task compared with that with
which Jack Monroe has undertaken.
Hunters who have been out at Summit
station, which is on the roof Of the con-
/ tlnent at the crest of the Mountain
Rockies will remember the experience
which Slim of Summit IL, famous
| guide and hunter, had with z mountain
| goat which he undertook to capture
1 station is high and wide mountain
| plateau. Almost at it's center rises an
irregularly shaped peak. Across the
plateau runs a track much used by noun
! tain goats in crossing from one set Of
| mountain heights to another Sometimes
when they are hard pressed by dogs the
goats will climb the peak in the ce ter
/ OF the plateau for temporary refuge.
''Slim" took advantage of his knowi-
edge of these facts and Went out one
day with his rope to try to Iasso one
1 of the wild goats. He hid himself
/ in the most inaccessible part OF the cen
ter peak and waited events. Presently
big billy" goat came boun Ing up
| the rocks Slim got his rope In
readiness and at the prope. time threw it,
TIE moose settled down over the goats
| neck, and Slim" gave yell Of triumph.
AS for the goat it looked up at its cap
| tor for a moment with a look OF injured
surprise on its solemn facr. Then it
gave leap down into an apparently
bottomless abyss taking the rope with il
and leaving Slim clinging with hands
and feet to the slippery edge Of the ra-
| vine. Somewhere out in, the Rockies
there is supposed to be still a big noun
tain goat with sixty feet Of good rope
| trailing from it's neck.
| 49,
work They are always caught when
young, and the problem is simply how to
| lind item. A man who has never seen
how close a young faWn will lie 20 the
ground, and how naru il is to tell from
the gray and brown rocks and sage
| brush which surround it. would never be-
! neve the tales that old plainsmen tell.
| A tenderfoot, they declare might sten.
on young antelope before he would see.
| use dogs to help them locate their game
1t Is the same instinct which leads the
xeung Of all wild animals to efface
th tn i1ase by hiding until they are able.
to depend for protection upon their speed
or their courage: Often deer will leave
their young lying stretched out fiat
| away for water food.
Ghe man who goes out to catch .ro,,as.
deer or antelope takes with him some
good dogs, a field glass and pack horse,
carrying large pann1ers as fne most cs-
sential parts of his outfit. He climbs a.
bluff and from its summit looks down
eyer fb the n, ,eg lowland # he sees
az Though they might lave young with
them, he starts down the trail after
them Shortly the grown deer vanish
$3.50, -: t.c ioi,1on line, ara then .ns .Jss
track down the fawns in theis hiding
places. All that remains for tbs. hi.i.
ter ter to &c is to pick up the trcn:biins
| Of the baskets on his pack horse Il 3
fawns + this way IN the course Of =
One of the hardest animals to catch
alive Is the beaver. When caught In a
trap In the ordinary way the beaver is
nrsa wen rou er # Least eem naay he
unlijured. The famous guide. :Biilss
i aofer i g, one Of the few men who haye
yellowstone Park country, but outside
the government reservation. Billy To-
Gated q colony Of beaver. They had
ters Of a big pond behind IT. Hofer and
his party started out to drain the pond
They cut big cash in the dam and
dry IN the morning On the contrary,
they found when they got up that the.
beavers had been busy over night. bad
more enjoying their usual depth OF wa
ter. It took careful and endless watch
Ing to get the water out of the beaver
uaAu, diQ ~ WAS several Gays DclOre the E
step. In the side of the bank was found
hole where a solitary old beaver scorn-
Ing to live in the house with the n1a-
4ority OF the families of his tribe had
built himself bachelor quarters.
Hofer built huge affair like giant
stead Of cord In its construction 1t hal
long and heavy handle and cover
which could be quickly and securely shut
down Over the body Of the net. The
open mouth of this arrangement was
placed over the entrance to. tbs. hole.
and two men were charged to hold it III
place. The rest of the party went bae,l:.
a number of feet and started to dig a
sest.rg the beavers: bsIfl 0 -. =. - g
they struck 1t its occupant made a gf.;a =
LcL2rge Out OF his front door AMI lar
ed full in the wire basket. Later sore
of the beavers houses We're attacked III
the same way, AMI altogethe. six i've
living in the national geological ga Ii
at Washing ton.
Perhaps the most remarkable as wsH
as the most heart-breaking trip ever ma q
| In the attempt to capture Wild amin lis
alive was that which took Buffa %
Jones and his partner thousands of NIL s.
| into the frozen North after the young Of
wild and unexplored region to the wet.
and north Of Hudsons Bay. where n
white man had ever gone before. He
found himself opposed not only by the
forces CT nature, bat also by the natives
when the latter found that the object OF
the strangers was 70 take some musk OK
icalyes out Of The country alive they i'm
ln:ediate1y showed signs OF hostility II
developed that there was q superstitlon,