East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-22
HUNTING WITH
AUTO AND PHONE
EMPEROR AND EMPRESS
ON USUAL FALL HUNT.
'Centrar Tells Kaiser Where Game
Is and Then lie Scorches TO Spot
100 Stones Mark Each One ThOus-
andth Beast on Bird Killed-ShoOt-
ing in Remotcst Spot in Whole
German Empire.

/ ing III hemOtcSt spot III MnOle
German Empire.
Emperor William is at his east
Prussian shooting box, Rominten, on
his fall hunt. Rominten will occupy
him until near the end OF October.
The empress is with him and so Is
little Princess Victoria Louise. but
none of his sons.
Rominten is remarkable place.
In its nature and surroundings II Is
perhaps the remotest place in the
German empire. There is no town
of any Importance near It, The viii
lage consists of only 80 or 40 huts,
I'm which game keepers and woodmen
live.
Part of the $4,000 acres in the deer
park lie on the other side of the
Russian frontier More than 10000
acres Is covered with the densest for
ests of pine and fir. In places these
woods are almost primeval In gran
deur and naturalness.
All sorts of deer are there. and the
greatest care Is taken by selection to
obtain a breed with magnificent an
tiers. The emperor dislikes to shoot
beast that has not a splendid pair
of horns.
Bear, Elk, BOars.
Besides deer, there is a small herd
OF elk. Bears are only rarely hunted
in Rominten, and everything done to
Increase the herd has failed. A small!
brown bear affords fine sport. A
year ago there was shot on the heath
a wolf, which is believed to have been
the last one in Europe outside Russia.
/ The emperor was overjoyed when his
head keeper sent him the beast. It's
vicious head now adorns the palace
walls at Potsdam.
The house at Rominten in which
the emperor lives was until recently a
plain log hut, a little bigger than the
ordinary hut occupied by the peas
ants of the neighborhood. It was
| built 20 years ago for the transaction
of the judicial business of the parish
and is still known in the neighborhood
as the palace of justice"
When the emperor first occupied 1t
only three rooms We're available-one
for him. another for his adjutant and
a third for the servants. Year by
year it has been added to. until now
1t is a long. irregular mixture of
wooden houses and huts. picturesque
in its way, but with nothing imperial
about 1t.
Nailed over the walls, inside and
out are trophies of the chase. The
emperor's rooms-a bedroom.
workroom and a dining room--are
simplicity itself Many stout farm
er is better equipped and more lux
uriously installed
Locates Game by Telephone.
! In Rominten the emperor rises ear
| ly The autumn mists still hang low
| in the trees when he is in conference
with his huntsmen about the days
sport.
Not far from his house the emperor
has built telephone exchange which
/ is connected with each of the II di-
visions Of the property. There is a
man at the central" day and night
to receive reports from outlying sta
tions. and the moment fine head Of
horns Is reported the emperor Is in
formed of its whereabouts. The big
distances are covered by the emperor
in an automobile, for which the old
bad roads have been improved.
Arrived at the place where the buck
was sighted. the stalking begins. II
Is said that the emperor soon tires Of
stalking. He likes to kill his beast
and have done with it.
The most elaborate pains are taken
to keep an exact record of his shoot
ing. Everything he kills, If only
sparrow, IS registered and the total
is added up at the end of the hunting
year. Where every creature was kill
ed and the date are known. and any
other circumstances which might
make the spot memorable is careful
ly noted.
At the spot where the emperor kills
every thousandth beast or bird a stone
with a suitable inscription Is placed.
About a hundred of these scenes are
scattered over the Fatherland