Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-25
GIANT TUSKER
FALLS PREY To
ROOSEVELT
BULL ELEPHANT SHOT
FROM CLOSE QUARTERS
Taking Even Break With
Mighty Beast, Ex-preSident
Finds Hunt Fascinating and
Sufficiently Strenuous,


Nairobi British East Africa. Satur-
day, Sept. 95.---Colonel Ton seych, ac-
lcompanled by his son Kermit Esm0rd
Heller and II, j. Cunnnghnmc, leit
for Nyeri early in August with the IN
tention of getting null cow and
calf elephant Althougd hett"r Gle
phants arr obtainablc in the Niie
] country Of Uganda. Colonel Roosevelt
| wanted to get an elephant in the ltcin
| district, ga that Heller could have q
| better chance in the cooler climate of
saving the skin in good condition.
Major Mearns ana Lorlng were to
go to Nairobi and send off their bird
and mammal collections to New York
ana then fill out their caravan for the
expedition to the snow line Of Mount
Kenia t1S,20o fceD. They started on
the thirh and fourth Of September. re-
spectiVely,i and made their first camp
AT Kamitl ranch. which belongs to
Hugh II. cIeatlN. They were then
to march by easy stages over the
Ituiro river, the Nadrugu river (Which
was the scene OF diamond rush IN
! SOC which proved fruitlcss), over The
fine concrete bridges at the Thika
ana Chania rivers, where they would
see the beautiful fails at the junction
of those two rivers, thence past Pun
dn Milia (ZcbTal, the fine farm al
Messrs swift ANA Rutherford. and 80
To Fort Hall tnative name. Maraga-
naD.
Meanwhile colonel Roosevelt was
not Idle ana as alrehdN Cahled ne ha@
got fine bull elephant with tusks
weighing about eighty pounds each
Elephant hunting Is no childs play
Cor one must creep mp 10 within some
twenty feet of them or nearer and. OF
course If they got the wind or hear
the hunter the chances Of his escape
are small There " something fas-
cinating about an elephant hunt, for
the chances are about even Tor the
hunter ANA tho hunted.
After getting his elephant Colonel
Ronseyclt went toward Mwrru where
there is good game shooting. \ spolat-
man recently came into Nyeri from
Mworu. less than days march of
NS,ri. who had encountered a charg'
ing man cater lion, "a charging rhino
ana an elephant, all within twenty
PAGES of each other flr shot the Hon
dead with his first shot and then the
rhiu0 charged and fen dead To good
shot. Then, To- hie ama1omrnl % hull
elephant appeared and he shot So dead
#lso.
Many strangc things happen pu in" |
chase in British EHst Africa When /
Mr. Sclous and Mr. MrMilltn wer" out |
in this district uccompau hv Judd, |
It professional hunter thcr were after |
lions one da. ana Judd was following |
MI Selous pu 81 mule. Suddculy his !
mule stepped ou % huge lion ana as |
the mule ewcrved Judd fired from his |
hin with the rifle. Almost touching !
tn. lion when the mule buck"d him |
or be- landed uninttrrd. ife thought /
his last hour had come and prepared
to make u fight for his life. but To- his /
surprise the lion did not move. Then |
hc suddenly realized The beast was |
dead ~, got up and found that his |
shot had entered the eye and Instant |
"a killed it without leaving mark On |
the skin. W. Mcmillan has taken the |
KIN home TO have Il set up,