The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17
SOME GAME THAT is GAME.
sportsman's Paradise at Nairobi That
Supplies Whole Menagerie.
New York Press)


Twenty years ago one of the Wi
mans family, of Ferry Bar, Md. who
made an enormous fortune building
railroads IN Russia, hired 100000 acres
of forest in Northern Scotland, paying
$4,000 a year for the sole right TO kill
SEQ apiece. Nowadays very few Amer
leans go to Scotland for deer. The OBJ
ject of the majority is grouse shoot
ing on the moors. The season begins
August II. British owners of these
moors are glad TO rent them. and with
the money go elsewhere for bigger
game. Many come to America for griz-
lilies, mountain lions. elk, moose carl
bOu, etc. Some invest the hire of their
estates in American land
In all the United States there are
not more than 500 buffaloes remaining
OF all the untold millions that roame1
the western plains. Many titled for
eigners came here in the late sixties
and early seventies to join in the
slaughter. One of the great hunters
was the Grand Duke Alexis. high ad-
miral of the Russian navy and uncle
/ of the car. His presence here when he
was a jolly sailor Of some twenty five
/ years created furore. His success as
e buffalo hunter and woman killer was
! chronieied i'm extenso. The illustrated
weeklies gave him pages of exciting
/ pictures-'draw on the spot by our
special artists" The titled foreigners
of today have recently chosen British
East Africa for hunting field. and
| there the sport is indeed regal Rider
Haggard discovered it,
| Not a dozen Americans all told have
/ hunted in that wonderful spOrtsmen :
paradise, in the heart of which is sit
uated the magic city of Nairobi. A Ii
cense costs $3.50; rather steep, you may
| think; but consider the privilegesl IN
| der it you are entitled TO kill or cap
| ture two elephants with not less than
sixty pounds OF tusk ivory, two rhin-
oceroses, two Appropriateness, two se-
bras. two antelopes, one Gland, one
! hipotragus Use ble) one hippOtragus
! (roan) two strapSicerOses, four tODis,
/ two hartebeestes, four bOngoes. two
/ colobi. two aardvarks. two cheetahS.
/ two aard- wolves, two male Ostriches-
| two marabouts. two egrets, ten ga
zelles and ten chevrotaips- There is no
/ limit as TO lions.
] A sportsman can be fitted out in
1 Nairobi for about $3.50 a month, which
pays for porters. gun-bearers and per-
sonal servants He is expected to
Z bring his own tents. rifles and ammuH-
/ itIon with him; all other supplies can
he obtained i'm the cOu7try. His living
expenses depend upon his tastes anu
pocketbOOk. porter receives from
! s1.65 to 1895 a month. a cook from 50
to s.. a gunbearer from $40 to $40, and
a personal attendant from 1885 to 81.
In the East African prote ctorate last
season, 9.139 head of game were killed
/ By sportsmen from all parts of tbs
world. The most dangerous sport of all.
and that which President Roosevelt Is
| looking forward to when his term OF
office ends, is lion hunting: l.ot bait
ing in tn orthodox fashion Of stalk
I ing. but driving them on hOrsebsck
and riding them down. The beasts lie
low in the long grass when hard
pressed and spring on iheir pursuers
in all the blind fury of despair. Fred
! erick Shaw Kennedy killed seven lions
on recent trip. one being shot at a
| few PAGES while making a murderous
charge. Frank Baden-Powell. brother
| of the general killed streak rhlno-
! ceros which had single stralght
horn d 1-2 inches long