The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-20
TOUGH CUSTOMERS.

The most important rule to be OBJ
served by the man who hunts wild
hogs In southern Colorado is to be near
a tree, otherwise his first hunt may be
his last. A Northern man who went
after these Southern hogs was inclined
to laugh at the warnir Is Of his Yuma
Indian guides, but his experience, as
reported in the Washington Post,
proves that the animals fairly ache TO
give the hunter all the sport he wants.
When the hunters came upon a
drove, lite, one OF the Yuma guides,
told the sportsman to get his rifle
ready and take his stand near thiek.
spreading tree with some low. hanging
limbs. He and Paul, the second In
dian, stepped off to the sides. each
standing besid sapiiug. Then they
sent the dogs into the uuderbrush aud
awaited developments.
Presently the dogs broke out of the
underbIuSh and made away. as If they
had important business at the other
end Of the county. Closely behind them
came a big boar, foam dripping from
his great tusks, and covered with the
blood Of slaughtered dog Tite fired,
hitting him -quarely IN the head; but
the boar only granted with rage and
wheeled.
The guide dropped his gun aud
swung up his sapling without delay.
The boar came on full tilt, and struck
the little tree fair with bis forehead
The blow nearly shook the guide off
After two or three attempts to butt
down the tree, tie boar began work
| ing about three feet from its foot, dig
ging up the ground until he struck d
root, then biting it with his razor.
like teeth. The hunter then thought
it time TO take hand. With his rifle
over his shoulder he scrambled up into
Ills tree, and getting a good sight al
the boar, he fired, but did not bring
the animal down. IL took seven shots
to do that.
After the big boar had been dispos-
ed of, Tite and the hunter thought Of
Paul. He was concealed by ioterven
ing underbrush, but they could heal
his rife popping Then the rifle-shot,
suddenly stopped, and they heart
only snarls and grunts. When the,
got where they had clear view the,
saw an exciting spectacle.
All the drove except the big boa
had broken through the brush nea
where Paul was standing. He prompt
ly Skinned" his sapling. and ther,
he was besieged some OF the hogs but
ting the tree, other vigorously under
mining it. He had made good use o
his rifle, but he had started out will
only half dozen cartridges, and thsr,
were more hogs than cartridges. 1
he had been alone he certainly woult
have lost his life, for the hogs woulc
either have brought down the tree O.
waited till hunger and exhaustion
had forced him to loose his grip. Ono,
out Of the tree, he would have beer
torn to pieces IN q twinkling.
lite and the sportsman climbed two
trees where they had a clear range
and opened DIRE. They had plenty o.
ammunition. and, OF course, Their,
could be but one issue. But not 90,
OF the hOgs-there we're nineteen-rar
away. Every one was killed Will,
raging and fOaming and fighting al
the foot of one OF the trees in which
the men were .perchsd. When they
looked oyer their cartridgebelts they
found It had taken more thaa fifty
bullets to dispose OF the drove. Yet
all three men were accounted good
shots.