Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-13
TEMPTING TIPS FOR HUNTERS
ewams Of Big Game on Western Mountains
and Valley.
TALL TALES TO THRILL sPORTSWIN
Ranchers Forced 60 Fight 90 save
Their Hay from Herds of Elk
and Bear-Fishing
with Club.

the Philadelphia Record bunch OF Dig
game stories we'll calculated to give thrill
or two TO rich. red sporting blood. Listen
20 his tales:
Western Wyoming. eastern and northern
Idaho are overrun with antelope, elk and
deer, and probably the coming year will
be the greatest game season in the history
OF the west. over in Jackson Hole and the
Teton Basin the elk have become so bold
that ranchers are obliged to guard their
hay ricks from the nocturnal raids OF the
big game.
James Walsh a we'll known rancher liv-
ing we'll up in jackson Hole, sends out
this thrilling story; THE heavy SHOWS In
jackson Hole have driven the big game
down by the thousands. l believe there are
today more elk deer and antelope In jack
son Hole than there were ten years ago.
They have suddenly appeared in great num-
bers II is hard to tell where they came
from, but I suppose they must have been
grazing high up In the mountains. Ranch
ers have been forced to build stockades
around their hay. Last week hay rick
containing probably ten tons Of timothy
was destroyed in one night by a herd of
elk There must have been 5000 in the herd
Soon after that l built a wire stockade
around my other rick This did pretty well
for three nights, but on the third night the
elk became ravenously hungry. They
dashed down on that rick and the next
morning posts, wire and all were gone
Three crippled elk that had been injured
In the attack on the stockade were left be-
hind 10 tell the tale. Hundreds Of elk and
antelope are to be seen with every big
bunch Of cattle, 1t is impossible to separ-
ate the game from the cattle and the re-
suit is that pretty near every rancher IL
feeding one elk to every three cattle he
owns"
The only outrage against the big game
that has been reported this season was
perpetrated in the Teton Basin. 1t seems
that after the big blizzard a herd of 100
elk came down out of the mountains and
took refuge in small basin, Teeth hunt
ers soon sighted them and killed every
elk in the herd The carcasses OF the elk
minus the tusks were piled up in the basin
These tusks sell for $50 pair.
Rangers who have been making the
rounds Of the big preserves estimate from
the sizo OF the herds in the fats that in
the Wind river country, Jackson Hole and
Teton Basin alone there are 100000 elk. They
place the number Of antelope at $4,000 and
the deer at 10000. II is somewhat surpris-
ms, but the old hunters, who are coming in
from the game country, state that the deer
are IN more danger OF becoming extinct
than are the elk. This 10 accounted for
by the explanation that the deer Craze
closer to the flats and in more accessible
country than do the bigger game. Until
this winter II was a rare sight to see a
herd Of more than 100 elk in jackson Hole,
but since the snow It takes a herd OF at
least a thousand to make the average
rancher turn his head
As Rancher Walsh expressed It: I'VE are
grazing and haying herds Of elk this winter
instead of cattle"
GrIzElieH Rniding Herds.
Not only are the ranohers fighting the
elk pest, but they are having some lively
times with grizzly bears. Every herd OF
cattle IL suffering from the raids of the
silver tips. These big bears have become
30 fierce that they are passing by the
ysarllngs and 2-year-olds and are killing
b-yeaP-old steers. Rarely a night passes
but herd loses big steer. Oscar Parker
and Jack Alexander, ranchers at the head
waters OF the Green river in the Wind
mountains. had a thrilling fight with two
big silver tipped grizzlies just before the
blizzard two weeks ago The two meT
were riding near Green River LAX,
rounding UP some Catte Wneh tney came
upon two grizzlies, which were busily en-
gagged in killing big steer. The story OF
the encounter is best told IN the words OF
Parker;
I'VE had just ridden out OF the thick
timber close by the lake and were enterlnl
gorge when we saw the. two big silver
tips cufing away at the steer One OF then
was standing on his hind legs cutting say
agely at the head of the steer, while the
other bear had seized 1t near the hind hook
Every time the bear that was in from
struck the steer in the face and neck blOot
few. The steer was wild with fear and
gored and kicked and plunged. 1t was
savage tight against odds. Alexander and
rode up close and determined to kill on,
bear and lasso the other. dropped from
my horse and put three holes through tn
shoulder OF the hind bear. bringing him {,
the ground. Then Alexander rode In c1ua
and cast his rope. The moose went owe
the bears head as true as a die and dropped
below one front Deg. Then he jerkeC
his eayuse back and the tug OF war began
Tie bears leg being inside the moose pre-
vented Alexander from choking the BIZ
brute down. 1t came after the lassoer llk
a fash and Alexander started down tn,
gorge with the bear Ia hot pursuit I
was rough country and Alexander ha'
trouble in keeping his jumper going fas
enough to keen the rope taut While al
OF this was going on l had left my pom!
and had gone up to the wounded silver III
TO put an end to him. 1 was within tel
feet Of him, ready to go in and put
knife through his throat, when the bea
suddenly reared and came at me snarlinl
and blowing bloody foam from his nortril
~ and mouth. / had three shells In my rih
and had only time TO give him one. 1t wen
through the neck close to the head, but
did not stop him. l lodged as he came a
me, but he cuffed me with his left paw
almost dislocating my shoulder. Before n
could recover and turn l ran back to m,
rife. which had dropped, and as he agai
charged me l put the barrel In his mout
and sent a through his brain. AS h
fell he struck at me. knocking me uncon
scious That was all that 1 remember
Tied Bear 90 a Tree.
Alexander continued the story, as FOL
lows: Il dashed on down the gorge, care
fully guiding my Jumper out OF holes an
between boulders, and by the hardest kin
OF work keeping the rope tight. We ha
just come TO steep hill. and there wa
fallen timber all along the trail. You mus
knnvy that I haN dropnaH v,,.s .v,,y l..