The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-18

was In me- II q wounded elk geo
fairly started he Win 90 at measured
trot for many hours. and even II NOR
tally hurt may run twenty miles BE-
fore falling; while at the same time
he does not start Oh At full speed. and
will often give an active hunter .
chance for another shot Al he turns
and changes his course preparatory to
taking a straight line. So raced along
after the elk at my very best speed for
a few hundred feet. and then got an
other shot as he went across q little
glade. injuring his hip somewhat This
made it all right for me. and another
hundred yards burst took me up to
where was able to put q ball In
fatal spot and the grand old FELLOW
sank down and fell over on his side.
No sportsman can ever feel much
keener pleasure and dissatisfaction.
than when. after a successful stalk
and good shot. he walks up to grand
elk lying dead in the cool shade OF
the great cvergreens. and looks at the
massive and vet finely moulded form.
and Mt the mighty antlers which are
to serve in the future as the trophy
and proof OF his successful skill. Still
hunting the elk on the mountains Is as
noble a kind OF sport as can well be
magined: there Is nothing more pleas
ant and enjoyable. and at the same
time 1t demands that the hunter shall
bring into play many manly qualities.
There have been few days OF my hunt
ing life that were so full Of unalloyed
hor IN
Bighorn range. From morning till
night l was on foot. In cool. bracing
air. now moving silently through the
vast. melancholy pine forests. now
treading the brink Of high, rocky prec-
ipices, always amid the most grand
and beautiful scenery: and always
after as noble and lordly game rs Is to
be found In the Western world.
Since writing the above l killed an
| elk near my ranch: probably the last
f, of his race that will ever be found in
our neighborhood. 1t was just before
| the fall roundup. An old hunter. who
/ was under some obligation to me. told
me that he had shot a COW elk and
had seen the tracks Of one or two
others not more than twenty-five miles
or. In Q place where the cattle rarely
wandered. Sch chance was not to
be neglected and, on the first free day.
one of my Elk horn foremen. viii Dow
/, by name, and myself, took our hunt
ing horses and started OF, accompa-
MED BY the ranch wagon. in the direc-
ton Of the probable haunts Of the
doomed deer Towards nightfall We
struck a deep spring pool. near by the
remains Of an old Indian encampment.
1t was at the bead Of a great basin.
several miles across. in which We be-
lieved the game to. lie. The wagon
was halted and we pitched camp; there
was plenty Of dead wood. and soon
the venison steaks were broiling over
the Goals raked from beneath the
cracking cottonwood logs, while in
the narrow valley the ponies gra1ed
almost within the circle Of the flicker
ing freight. It was in the cool and
pleasant month Of September; and
long after going to bed we lay awake
under the blankets watching the stars
that on clear nights always shine with
such intense brightness over the lonely
Western plains.
We were up and OF by the gray Of
the morning. 1t was 4 beautiful hunt.
ing day: the sundogs hung in the red
dawn; the wind hardly stirred over
the crisp grass; and though the sky
was cloudless yet the weather had that
queer. smoky. hazy look that it Il most
apt to take on during the time Of the
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