The daily sentinel., 1907-12-03
MOST SUCCESSFUL HUNT
NEAR GLENWOOD SPRINGS
farty Killed Big Cinnamon po,r
Tpr pr,, Mountain Lions and Eight
BOD Cats.-Had Some Very
Exciting Times.

Trailing a big cinnamon boor
his winter home, chasinp b,,,, ar - 10
H. i.i-le5 ba across the country and final
~ S%aslus MN, was only an incident
.n d nuht IN the Douglass Creek conn
~ 80 " party composed of VIII and
rs Tana.,,N Neacn OF Canon City and John
ieasue and Cam Bum of Rifle.
BESIDES doing this they had some
PGit win Tour mountain lions and
eIs1l oob cats. all of which they suc-
eeeded in killing.
me party arrived in Glenwood
couple of days ago, bearded and
yauhed' They say that never in their
ives have they enjoyed such snort
me chief of the hunters is John
Ieasue, who is young, athletic ami
active, He is a product of the hills
OF these parts and is one of the doz-
en- or so young men of the western
slope who know the hills like a book
VINO would prefer to spend a night
under a spruce tree on the omen
ground than in a downy couch ini the
hnest hotel in the land.
The party left Rifle November Is.
me weather was ideal, such as II
has been over here on the western
slope all during the fall. There was
n little snow in the Douglass Creel,
country, but not enough to handicap
the hunters in thelr s~arch for game.
They took alary with them a dog-
en- head Of saddle ana pack horses
and large pack of dogs. They tray
eled west on the Book mountains a
distance of over one hundred miles.
On the fourth day out they OBJ
served some cold bear tracks. They
surmised that some big specimen OF
the bruin family was to be found at
the end of the tracks, probably talk
Ing his winter nap or preparing to do
so. The tracks led up the side of
steep mountain, and the nimrods
were about winded when they reached
the entrance of a cave where the
tracks had led them.
The hounds raised a tremendous
racket, knowing that the bear was
there, and finally the cinnamon,
aroused from state of lethargy,
poked his nose out of the mouth of
the cave. He saw that it would do
him no good to remain in the cave,
so he braced up and made a run for
his life, the dogs swapping at his
heels. The bear distanced the hounds,
but they caught up with him three or
four miles away and had him sur
rounded by the time the four hunt
ers reached the spot. Then it was an
easy matter to put an end to bruins
troubles.
Throwing rocks at treed mountain
lions was another sport INDUCED in.
One big gray" vicious and blood
., ,g, IT,,
from the tip of his nose to the tip
of his tail, played the coward, as all
of his species do when pursued by
men ard dogs. climbed up a high
tree. 1t was decided that it would
be more fun to "rock him out" than
to make him target for bullets.
So the hunters armed themselves
with stones and in few minutes the
beast. tired of lodging the missiles,
made a flying leap to the ground.
He put up a savage scrap when cor
nered. and with a sweep of his paw
ard couple of snaps of his fangs
put a period to the life of one of
the best dogs. The other mountain
lions were shot out of the trees in
which they had taken refuge.
Those snarling fiends. the bob cats.
were chased up hill and down dale
by the hunters, and in some instan-
ces through the brush. The dogs
did their work well, seeming to get
into the spirit of the chase from the
beginning. The hunters congratu-
late themselves, and with good rea-
son. that they disposed of so many
specimens of the beasts that prey.
The lions and the cats are always to
be found where deer are abundant,
and the fawns, does and sometimes
the bucks are slaughtered by them.
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