The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-01
OLD WAY
AND NEW
Col. Baker Prefers the
Lasso to the Trap
for Cattle.

the song of THE Hundred
Pipers,' the evidence of the living pic
ture of Kamehameha awakened remi-
niscences of "the helmets and feathers
and glittering gear" Of the martial
days Of Kalakaua.
Suppose he were a ranch manager
and had issued directions for a cattle
drive to the lunas-Mr. Kinney asked
him-and when the animals were on
the move he found that the cowboys
were not doing the work properly.
Would he go over the heads of the
lunas and himself give direct orders
to the cowboys?
IT would act according to my military
experience was the answer.
"You mean that, in commanding a
body Of soldiers, if anything went
wrong you would not give direct orders
to the privates, but issue them to your
captains and lieutenants?"
"Well, might talk to the men if
was inspecting officer of the line
his military analogy, the attorney had
him admit that under certain circum-
stances he might, as a ranch manager,
order the cowboys around without the
intermediary of the lunas.
The controlling of wild cattle and
prevention of their increase formed the
subject on which Col. Bakers cross
examination was mostly conducted yes
terday.
Don't you understand that the catch
ing of wild animals in traps has been ire
mendously increased in Carriers timer"
was asked.
For myself I would not want to do
such a thing" the reply came, DE
cause it is too much Of loss"
He had seen cattle caught in traps
and then turned loose. This was at
Waimea. The place he indicated up in
the mountains he considered to be in
Waimea district.
Don't you know, either from obser-
walton or reliable information, that
Carter has caught hundreds of wild
cattle in traps?"
"I have heard of cattle, being caught
in large numbers in the pen-until it
was full-but what was done with them
afterward 1 don't know
Mr.. Kinney mentioned two places
where traps were located asking the
witness if he had not seen large num-
| bers of cattle trapped therein.
| His reply was that he had seen many
cattle in the pen, and the boys had
pointed out animals as wild cattle, but
he had never heard the boys say they
were caught in the trap. Asked if he
was not aware that some $50 cattle
We're caught in the Puanaana trap the
| first time it was used, the witness said
| he had no personal knowledge of it, but
only information.
Col. Baker showed that his favor
Glove to the old-fashioned lariat. He
was asked:
| Don't you know that to catch 200
cattle in the mountains by the old way
of lassooing would be months of work %
| NO. was the reply and. to further
Questions. he gave an account of catch
| ing so head of wild cattle in a week,
he having been along as spectator
for pleasure. However, he admitted
that all the work of catching was small
compared with that of getting the ami
mails caught down to the paddocks He
seemed to traverse this statement a
moment later, when he said that a crew
of six men with laSsoeS, assisted by
several others tending tame animals,
would get 60 beasts down to the pad
| docks in a week. But Mr.. Kinney ask
ed him:
| Have you ever known that to have
been done?'
Il did not see the cattle brought
down. was answered, but I was pres
I know that 60 could have been brought
down.
But you never saw it done?"
| mo"
1t was all an interesting wild west
story of the tropics for the uninitiated-
about trapping and lassoing, and the
bracing of tame brutes with wild ones
to lure the latter out of the wilderness
for treatment in the paddocks. So far
as the case is concerned, though, all
that Lows witness testified yesterday
went to prove that Carter's ranchins
methods are somewhat in advance OF
the expert Hawaiian drovers expert
ence. In other words, the old Way OF
cattle corralling and regulation of in
icrease is getting the dust of the road
from the new way on the Parke,
ranch.
Mr.. Kinney made a remark that is
liable to create more CONSERVATION thar
any political bad wind that has blown
. thither from Hawaii since annexation
He was sticking for the exact inter.
probation of Hawaiian word. wher
Mr.. Magoon showed some unrest o.
nerves over the seeming finesse, and h.
said:
, his may all go to Washington, ant
! we want the record straight"
/ That 'all go to Washington" Their
| If Chief Justice Fuller do not accep
superannuation, and as gracefully a.
panic will allow. it will be because in
terminable details of litigious allega
ton, all mixed through other, are tn,
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