The sun., 1909-01-03
TEXAS HUNTERS TELL TALES
TENDERFOOT SOUGHT RANCH
MARKS on WILD HOGS.
-Four Bucks In Battie-An Eights-y ear.
Old Hunter Lost, but Not Worried
In 10000 Acre Pasture With
out q Compass s-Deer as swimmers.

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out q Compass Deer as swimmers.
ENCNAL, Tex. Jan. The open season
for deer and most other wild game in Texas
10 at an end. 1t was OF two months
duration and during that period hundreds
OF deer were killed in the Encinal terri
tory. The seasons crop of hunting
stories Ia unusually large.
Glenn White came To San Antonio re-
Gently from New England intending TO
buy a ranch in the Rio Grande border
region and was down here recently on a
trip OF inspection. He was invited on a
deer hunt He had never heard OF the
javelin. the wild musk hog, which roams
the chaparral of the ranches hereabout
in big droves and which is more feared
than any other wild animal Of this region
by the ranohmen and cowboys.
Mr.. White was riding through a 5000
acre pasture which he contemplated buy
ing when he came upon a drove of javelins,
He got of To sec what ranch mark the
animals bore and was Immediately charged
by the whole drove.
He made for mesquite tree and sue
oeeded in swinging himself into the lownr
branches but not until the iavelins had
torn the legs Of his trousers into shreos
with their tusks MIR White had dropped
his gun in his sight and he had 10 remain
In the tree for more than nine hours before
the javelins got tued and disappeared
in the chaparral.
MIR. White had hard time making his
way hack To camp He declined TO con-
tiuue on the deer hunt and returned TO
san Antonio without purchasing
A fight between four bucks was wit
nesscd by Edgar Koch Of Blauco while
deer hunting on Mo- AL Greek. He heard
the c'ashing Of the antlers when some
distance away. slipped mp tn within about
ore hundred yards of the bucks and
watched the contest.
The antlers Of two Of the bucks we're
locked. one Of the animals being evidently
either dead or dying MIR Koch drew
lead on the livclier of the two bucks which
had their horns locked and put bullet
through its heart. The other two bucks
Quit fighting and bounded away into the
brush at the sound of the shot. The
third buck was dead. its neck being
broken. Each Of the dead animals had
eight point Cntlers The horns cannot
lie unlocked. Mr.. Koch cut on the two
heads and took them to town.
CAPT. G.. r. Hundley of Marble Falls
is ~ and has not missed his annual deer
hunt for sixty years. Soon after the sea-
son opened in November he went To the
Flatrcck territory in Burnet county 10
kill his quota of bucks.
A f.
the first day after his arrival and brought
down b a., with his rife. In attempt
ing to return to caInp he tooi the wrong
end Of cattle trail and when dark came /
on ne was completely lost
When he failed to show up at camp the |
other m mOers of his party began a !
search for him, They came upon his !
campfire at ga NJ. in dense cedar brake /
ssven miles from their camp Capt |
Hundley wss sleeping on the ground
by the fire and was not at all |
disturbed over being lost
James Kentey Of Bell county, who went
with party Of friends on deer hunt upon
n ranch thirty miles west OF Cotulla the
other day, was lost for three days in a
4O. 600 acre pasture. He was half crazed
when found by a Mexican fence rider, and
IL was with great difficulty that he was
hunted much in the chaparral region
know how easy IL is to get lost and for this
reason no sportsman who is familiar with
the situation in these wilds ever | aves
camp even for distance of few undred
Yards without carrying compass. II
MIR. Kentley's first visit to this region.
The first evening in camp he rdiculed the
idea Of any persons being unable to make
their way over the ranch without the aid Of
a compass.
II wss raised on a farm, he told his COM
panions. "and know whole lot about
" woodcraft
wager you new hat that you couldn't
find yourway out of this pasture IL turned
loose without a guide or compass, one
Of the men proposed.
This was a dare that Kentley would not
overlook. Despite the warnings Of his
friends he set out TO win the bet He de-
fence about three miles from camp and
leave his handkerchief on the barbed wire |
to show that he had been there.
When he failed to show up in camp
toward dark his companions began
search for him. II was fifteen miles TO
the nearest ranch house and no help
could be obtained from that quarter.
and nights without avail and the mans
we're about to abandon camp
and 20 70 the nearest town for help when
Kentley was brought in, tied upon the I
back OF a horse, by Mexican fence
rider
II was several hours before Kentley
recovered from his dazed condition. He
then told the story OF his wanderings. "
He realized that he was lost before he
had been away from camp thirty minutes
and his first endeavor was to retraoe his
steps and give up the effort 10 win the
wager. He travelled for an hour in
direction that he thought led to camp.