Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
WILD HOGS TOUGH CUSTOMERS.
Southern Colorado Has some That
Make Things Warm for the
Uninftiated Hunter.

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 southwestern hogs was in
clined to laugh at the warnings of his
Yuma Indian guides, but his expert
ence, 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
drove, Tite, one of the Yuma guides
told the sportsman to get his rife
ready and take his stand near thick.
spreading tree with some ,low-hanging
limbs. He and Paul, the second Indian
stepped off to the sides, each standing
beside sapling. Then they sent the
dogs into. the underbrush and awaited
developments.
Presently the dogs broke out of the
underbrush and made away, as if they
had important business at the other
end of the county. Closely behind the
dogs came big boar, foam dripping
from his great tusks, and covered with
the blood of slaughtered dog. Tik
fired, hitting him squarely in the head;
but the boar only grunted with rags
and wheeled.
"The guide dropped his gum and
swung up his sapling without delay.
The boar came on full tilt. and struck
the little tree fair with his forehead.
The blow nearly shook the guide off.
After two or three attempts TO butt
down the tree, the boar began work
about three feet from its foot. digging
up the ground until he struck root,
then biting it with his razor-like teeth.
The hunter then thought it time to AXE
a hand. With his rife over his shoulder
he scramb led up into his tree, and get
ting a good sight at the boar. he fired.
but did not bring the animal down. 1t
took seven shots to do that.
"After the big boar had been dis
posed of, lite and the hunter thought
of Paul. He was concealed by interven-
ing underbrush, but they could hear
his rifle popping. Then the rif1e-shots
suddenly stopped. and they heard only
snarls and grunts. When they got
where they had clear view they saw
an exciting spectacle.
All the drove except the big boar
had broken through the brush near
where Paul was standing. He prompt
ly Skinned his sapling. and there he
was besieged, some of the hogs butt
ing the tree, others vigorously under
mining it. He had made good use Of his
rifle. but he had started out with only
half dozen cartridges. and there were
more hogs than cartridges If he had
been alone he certainly would have lost
his life, for the hogs would either have
brought down the tree or waited till
hunger and exhaustion had forced him
to loose his grip. Once out of the tree.
he would have been torn to pieces in a
twinkling.
lite and the sportsman climbed two
trees where they had clear range, and
opened fire. They had plenty of am
munition, and, of course, there could
be but one issue. But not one of the
hogs-there were 19-ran away Every
one was killed while raging and foam
ing and fighting at the foot of one of
the trees in which the men were
perched. When they looked over their
cartridge-belts they found it had taken
more than so bullets to dispose of the
drove. Let all three men were ac-
counted good shots"