The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-21
HUNTERS rEAa THE ssD lynx,
When Hungry the California Variety
IS Like a Mad Buldou.


IS Like a Mad Bulldog.
California has in her hills the largest
and most ktnd hearted Of the great
fighters. the grizzly, and at the same
time the smallest ana most treacherous.
the red lyn Most hut>ers cal thesn
wild cats" but they are not--the real
wild cat has long tail. and lives only
in Europe; IN fact, he's about extlnci
now. and old hunters dread the wailing
midnight cry Of a hungry lynx morr
than they do all the growls of grizz
ever let out For whom lynx is ma,
dened by hunger. he fears neither ma
nor beast, and most OF the animals o
the forest give him the road without
waiting for him to ask for It.. In Can
ada and even in the northern row OF
states Of this nation the lyDxes grow to
be much larger than they do here, in
the warmer climate Of the southwest
There, too, they are hunted for their
fur, but here that fur Is worthless, and,
save for those killed by an occasional
sumter, the lynxes hold undisputeu
ray in the foothills.
The trouble is that the rascals do
not stay in the foothills, but wander all
over wherever their fancy smells chick
en-, for that is their special delight. and
they terrorize outlying poultry farmers
accordingly. They never make the mis-
take that the tabled fox did Of getting
into a hole through which they cannot
return with a fat hen OF a young tug-
key. In the low lands they stay arounl
the thick willow groves. never ventur-
ing far by day'it'i- but never forget
ting the way to al -uarded chicken
coop by night. During the day they
sleep in thick grass or weeds, or some
times curled up like kitten on a
broad limb No matter how soundly
they may be sleeping you can never
catch one mapping" for at the slight
est sound Of your approach he will
clear the ten OF fifteen feet between
his nest and the ground and be on like
fash in the underground. About the
only way to get these fe''ows is with
hounds, and then generally one or two
of the dogs get pretty severely chewed
uD.
In the hills the lynxes usually stay
In thick underbrush or in caves during
the day, coming out TO work havoc In
The quail coveys by moonlight. Then
If the night be bright, the hound hunt
er has real sport rousing the round
eyed owls with his shouts of encourage
ment to the dogs. which are not al
ways ready to rush into the teeth Of al
angry cat.
1t is almost impossible TO trap cat
though a hungry lion may occastonall
be caught in this manner. Now ant
then cat can be run into trap pre-
viously set along a runway, and in thi
way the lumbermen OF the CanadiaI
pineries take many of the cats that In
fest the great forests Of the North. Th'
further south you go the smaller tn
lynxes become. until the family wind
up with the little pampas cat of tn
! South American plains. Our lynx, how
ever, is the most savage of all and tn
hardest for any dog, no matter hoV
good he may be, to master. In tgh
cat has immense advantage over
dog in that he can fight with all four
and usually does 50. There Is littl
worse can befall a green pack of dog
than to shake an old lynx out OF tre
into their midst. When a lynx fights
he doesn't bite and let so like a vol
or dog. but bites and hangs on like
bulldog, while his claws keep up sor
J of snare drum accompaniment on IN
dogs ribs. 1t takes a mighty good do
to do up lynx, and wbn thorough
bred hunter gets such dog II takes
mighty good price to buy him.-Le
Angeles Times.