Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-24

The boar came at the sapling full TIT,
struck II fair with his forehead and the
DioW shook the little tree 80 that lite
was nearly shaken on.
After two or three more attempts to
butl down the tree the boar began work
about three feet from the foot Of H.
ulgging up the ground until he struck
root, then biting II with his sharp
leeth' ] Judged II was up to me To-
take n hand in the game.
slung my rifle over my shoulder
and scrambled up into my tree. / got
a good range on the big hog ana let
nm have IL. II / expected that bullet
10 prlng him down | was a mightily
mistaken hunter. He saw the smoke
OF my rife recognized that he hnd n
new enemy to deal with and came for
my tree without loss Of time. He
started In to try and dig up the roofs
Inc tree was too big for him To suc.
ceed In this design, and besides 7
didn't give him fair chance at II I
pumped bullets at him at short range
until he keeled over. But It took seven
shots. wa
AFTER the big boar has been disposad
OF, lite and ! thought we would see
now Paul was making ont He was con-
cealed by intervening underbrush We
ooula near his rifle popping as II he
Were being kept Interested. Then the
Ilile shots stopped That worried us
tor we could hear the snarls and grunts
rom the pigs, and were afraid Paul
might have fallen into serious trouble
AZ last We got where we could get n
clear view and II was about as excit-
ing sight as ! ever saw.
"All the drove. except the big boor.
hed broken through the brush near
where Paul was standing. He promptIy
Skinned up his sapling. and there he
was besieged. The tree WASN'T big
enough for comfort hut II was too
large 20 be butted down. The hogs
nag begun vigorous mining operations.
una II PAU had been alone he certain
ly would have lost his life.
Lire a good many Of the Yuma In
dlans, who are Q poverty-strioken lot
ne had started out with only half a
dozen cartridges When the hogs freed
nm ne made good use Of his supply.
put there were more hogs than cart
ridges So be was a helpless captive
guarded by as angry a lot Of animals
as could be found on the American
continent
Unless we had been there either the
hogs would have succeeded I'm bringing
down the tree or they would have
waited until hunger and exhaustion
forced him to lose his grip. Like the
peccarles, these hogs can outwait and
outstarve anything that walks. and
have an absolutely tireless patience
when they are waiting to execute ven.
geance on the man or animal that has
aroused their wrath Once out Of the
tree and Paul would have been torn TO
pieces In twinkling.
"Tite and | clamhered M a coupia ~
trees where We had good range and
opened fire We had plenty OF ammu.
milton, and, Of course. the FIGHT could
have only one issue. But not one of
those hogs ran away. Every ono was
Killed while raging and foamlng AT the
foot OF one Of the trees in which we
were nerched
There were nineteen in an. which
with The big fellow who had first AT
tackled Title, made twenty In the drove
"a larger drove than usual When we
looked over our cartridge belts ya
found that 't had taken more than EN-,
bullets 10 dispose Of the drove. We,
all three Of us were accounted good
shots. st Louis Globe Democrat.