The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-10
ROOSEVELT WILL
HUNT WILD BOAR
AMBITIOUS TO HUNT
JAVELlN AFTER GERMAN
MANNER.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. .
! When President Roosevelt makes his
trip to the west and south in October
/ he will take three or four days for a
unique hunting experience in south
west Texas. This is the information
given out by a former Rough Rider
of this state, who is now in the vicin-
ity of Encinal and along the Nucces
river, spying out the most favorable
section for iavelin hunting. The in
tention of the president is to hunt
the javelin, or wild boar, of Texas
after the manner of the boar hunters
of Germany, who ride horseback in
the chase. and kill the boars with
spears.
The number of javelns to be
found in the Nueces country is great
enough to assure the president all
the sport he desires. These animals
are wild and swift of foot, and their
ferocity is sufficient TO make it fatal
for anys pack of dogs that attacks
them. They have long, keen tusks,
and their size is greater on the ay-
erage than the size of the wild boars
that roam the German forests.
The idea of hunting the wild boar
of Texas originated with the presi-
dent. He has long desired to give
chase to these animals and seeks to
do it in the manner that experience
has proven the most sportsmanlike.
While there are many hunters in
Texas who have hunted the javelin
none has used the spear in the chase
Just how the hunt is to be accom-
plished in this manner is something
of a puzzle to the friends of the pres
ident who are arranging for the
chase The hazard to the riders will
not be so great in case their spear
thrusts fail to find the quarry, but
the mounts are likely to be mangled
by the vicious attacks of the boars
if the riders do not stop them
1t is the plan of the party to make
camp somewhere on the Nueces
river west of Encinal a station on
the International and Great Northern
railway, and from there hunt the
iavelin for three days. This section
is occupied with large ranches COW
pasture where the president hunted
wolves three years ago with John
Alternately and others in Oklahoma.
The javein hunt will be more remote
from settlements than the wolf hunt
was, too.
While no announcement has been
made at Oyster Bay or Washington
of the intention of the president to
go boar hunting no secret is being
made of the preparations here. 1t
is said the hunt will be brief, and for
that reason the preparations are be-
ing made to the end that there will
be no difficulty in locating the haunts
of the game. The men preparing the
hunt will practice on the wild boars
and attempt to get used to the spears
as weapons of offense and defense in
wild hog hunt.
Some of these Mexican wild boars
are gigantic and ferocious beasts. In
local saloon where trophies of the
chase have been accum ulated until
! the place has achieved a national rep
utation is a mounted head of a wild
boar killed few years ago in the vi
cinity of the proposed presidential
boar hunt, which is as large as a
bulls head, next to it. The tusks
! ars eight inches long and curved in
an ugly and dangerous manner. Such
a patriarch of the herd would oe a
great kill for the president, and
the accomplishment of this feat is
said to be the desire of his heart in
the coming hunt.