The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-03-25

Ing OF the Tammany tiger. In front OF
the window hung the following
placard:
~DO you WANT TO TURN HIM /:
LOOSE AGAIN?
IT'S UP TO YOU"
Now I. for one. had not the faintest
rein0test desire to turn him loose
again" For helped TO capture him
and I never could look on those mighty
paws of his without seeming to see
them. as had once before seen them.
stained with human blood.
A year ago last September re-
turned to Calcutta from an ''up-coun-
try" big-game expedition. At my club
there on the evening of my arrival l
picked up story that awoke in me
the old hunting instinct. which IL
never very soundly asleep in the heart
OF a man who has once seen gigantic
beasts fall dead at the light pressure
OF his forefinger on the trigger.
The story in brief was this:
For several years the Calcutta dis
trict had been terrorized by tremen-
t,Ous man-eating tiger. Now whenever
q tiger has killed a single human be-
ing the gentle native always begins to
describe the brute as being several
sizes larger than an elephant, and tells
how he can swallow three men at
mouthful. So the tiger stories CLEANED
from the natives must always be taken
with at least bushel OF salt. But the
rumors concerning this particular tiger
The Striped DEATH" as the villagers
had nicknamed him-were persistent
and were more than once verified by
English hunters who had come upon
his human kills" Several hunting
parties had gone in search of him, but |
he was as willy as he was terrible |
Lord Curzon. the viceroy, had even got |
Up n special hunt. with THE Striped |
Death" as its object. But, though many |
tigers fell prey to the expedition, the |
tiger they wanted was not among the |
slain.
After this the natives declared that a
tiger which could elude the divine
viceroy" must be a supernatural being. |
No sooner was this rumor started than |
II OF course became impossible to hire
beAfers" to hunt him. No native |
would willingly face the wrath Of the |
god or demon who had cho-
sen that tigers body as his headquar-
ters
This was the state of affairs when l |
reached Calcutta. This was the story
that reawoke in me the hunting fever.
thought the matter over for awhile,
then l said to my informant:
I don't want to boast, but I think I
can get this Striped Death" of yours.
I mean to have to have try at him
anyhow"
II was not only the desire for sport
that spurred me on to this. had but
that day found awaiting me at Calcutta
a letter from a famous European ami
NAL dealer who wanted large male
tiger and who commissioned me to pro-
cure such one for him II possible.
These two motives urged me to the
quest.
Next morning left Calcutta. went
straight to the village, where dwelt an
odd, SCARED native hunter OF my ac-
quaintance. Remachunda Dhass by
name. He and his younger brother.
Dhass, were noted "shikarris"
and feared nothing. BY
their help ! believed l could do more |
toward capturing the Striped Death"
than with whole regiment OF heaters.
explained my business to the broth |
ers. When l named the price they |
were eager to start at once on the |
hunt. But when stipulated that the |
tiger must be caught alive and unhurt
their faces fell.
'Sabib," said Ghunga, ito shoot a |
tiger is easy II one be brave and wise. |
To enmesh him alive is like trapping
the lightning. 1t is perilous and I'M
convinced him soon that the profits
would warrant the extra toll, and we
set to work on our plans.
The Striped Death had last been |
seem about 20 miles north Of Remach-
midas village. where he had slain and |
partly devoured half-grown goatherd |
rhither We went, acting; on the theory |
hat tiger thoroughly exhausts the |
Of one neighborhood be-
lore moving on to another.
For two weeks we worked In vain. |
Traps. falls and all other sorts OF GUS
Omary ruses were useless. The brute
,cemed. indeed, to have some of the
miraculous powers attributed to him
y the superstitious villagers. At last
won the iron nerves Of my two in
repid shikarris we're almost shaken by
Ae tigers repeated escapes from situa-
luns wherein It seemed there was no
Dophole left.
Twice during this time we saw him.
lace rs a mere streak of barred sun
EAt passing rapidly through gap In
- Jungle The second time. summing
fnself on rock. not 80 yards from !