The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

| n N the vast and tumbed Rockies and
| II the Jagged far reaching Sierras, the
grizzly has become the particular de-
| sire of the most modern of hunters, the
men who sally forth with rapid cameras
| instead of repeating express rifles, who
4 press a high speed shutter instead of a
! hair trigger. 1t takes daring nerve to face
! one of these frece, fight loving creatures
| with nothing more death dealing than a
| camera, and the Photographic hunters tell
| of many narrow escapes.
They are not the first grizzly hunters,
however, to scorn the rifle in hunting the
| huge bears. One of the camera hunters
! found this out a few weeks ago when he
settled down for rest by the Pacific in
| the Santa Barbara valley after success
| full, though bloodleSs, campaign through
\ the California mountains in which he Sc
| cured number of fine grizzly negatives.
| 1t was not long before the old Spanish
! dons, who form the "oldeSt settler por-
| ton of the population, heard of him, and
| came around to see his brave pictures, -
| as they called them
No hunters ever knew the grizzly more
! Intimately than these men of mixed Span
| ish and Mexican blood. They hunted with
Tiata and bowie knife, scorning the safety
| of the rifle as do the camera hunters of
| today. But the game they played was
more dangerous, for they had to be in at
| the death, while with the man of dry
plates and films there is no such end. The
! excitement of the personal conflict more
| than repaid the SpaniardS for the risks
| they ran, and they ran many, for in those
golden days, in the Ojai and Santa Ynez
valleys. there was a grizzly for every
acorn bearing wild oak, and some of
| them weighed more than ton, If the old
dons can be believed.
The sight of the grizzly photographs
was enough to make the old dons fight
over their battles, showing a scar for
nearly every one. The photographer found
| many of them in crumbling adobe houses
along the coast. Their hair is white,
their steps tottering, their eyes half dim,
| their speech growing thick, but they re-
member most wildly the battles of their
youth.
The two most famous grizzly fighting
done in Southern California died not long
ago within few months of each other.
They We're Carlos Rodriguez and Emedi
Ortega, neighbors and rivals from boy
hood. Different figures are given of the
number of grizzly victims each man
claimed, and the question who was the
| more skillful and daring fighter is often
discussed
One of the most thrilling encounters
| in which Don Carlos figured took place
| on a mesa in the Santa Ynez mountains.
He was herdfng a big bunch OF cattle
there, with the help of half a dozen
buclSayros. One afternoon they located a
| grizzly, and ran him into field of cham
iso brush which covered the center of the
mountain fat.
All of the outfit were well mounted and
eager for bear roping contest, which
| was their favorite diversion. No amount
| OF yelling would persuade the grizzly to
| leave cover, and one of the buckayros,
daredevil Mexican, offered to go in and
| drive him out He dismounted and en-
| tered the brush, while the others gather
| ed around, riatas in hand ready to rope
| the bear the moment he appeared
| The Mexican had not gone twenty yards
l into the chamiso before his friends heard
| a tremendous growing and the rush of
some heavy body through the brush. The
next moment the Mexican shot out from
the middle Of the patch as though sent