The San Francisco call., 1909-10-25
FORMER PRESIDENT
HAS GOOD SPORT
Roosevelt Kills Man Eating
Lions and Bull Elephant With
Enormous TuskS

NAIROBI, British East Africa, Satur-
day. Sept. 25.-Colonel Roosevelt, ac-
companied by his son Kermit, Edmond
Heller and R. ]. Cunninghame, left for
Nyeri in the early days of August with
the intention of getting a bull, COW and
calf elephant. Although better ele-
plants are obtainable in the Nile coun-
try of Uganda. Roosevelt wanted to get
an elephant in the Keia district so that
Heller could have a better chance in
the cooler climate there OF saving the
skin in good condition.
Major Mearns and Loring were to go
to Nairobi and send off their bird and
mammal collections to New York and
then equip their caravan for the ex-
pedition TO the snow line of Mount
Kenia (1s,200 feet). They started Sep
tember and 4, respectively, and made
their first camp at Kamiti ranch, which
belongs to Hugh H Heatley. They
in 1906, which proved fruitless), over
the Ruiro river, the Ndarugu river
(Which was the scene of a diamond rush
in 1906 which proved fruitless) over
the fine concrete bridges at the Thlka
and Chania rivers, where they would
see the beautiful falls at the junction
of those two rivers. thence past Punda
Milia (zebral4 which is the fine farm
of Swift and Rutherford. and TO Fort
Hall (natiye name Maragana).
GETS BULL ELEPHANT
Meanwhile Roosevelt was not idle.
He got a fine bull elephant, with tusks
weighing about so pounds each.
Elephant hunting is no child's play,
for one must creep up to within 20
feet of them or even nearer and, OF
course. If they get the wind or hear the
hunter, the chances of his escape are
small There is something very fasci-
mating about an elephant hunt, for the
chances are about even for the hunter
and the hunted.
After getting his elephant Roosevelt
went toward Mweru, where there is
good game shooting. A sportsman re-
Gently came into Nyeri from Mweru
(which is less than q days march from
Nyeri9 who had encountered a charging
man eating lion, a charging rhino and
an elephant all within 20 PAGES OF each
other He shot the lion dead with his
first shot and then the rhino charged
and fell dead to good shot. Then, TO
his amazement. a bull elephant ap-
peared and he shot ii dead.
HUNTERS STRANGE EXPLOIT
Many strange thing happen on the
chase in British East Africa. When
Seus and Mcmillan We're out in this
district, accompanied by Judd, the pro-
fessional hunter. they were after lions
one day and Judd was following Seius
on a mule Suddenly his mule nearly
stepped on "a huge lion and as the mule
swerved Judd fired from his hip with
the rifle and almost simultaneously the
mule bucked him off and he landed, al
most touching the lion. He thought his
last hour had come and prepared to
make a fight for his life, but to his
surprise the lion did not move Then
he suddenly realized the beast was
dead. He got up and inspected it and
found that his shot had entered the eye
and killed it instantly, without leaving
q mark on the skin. Mcmillan has
taken the skin home to have it set up
On the road to Mweru and Nyeri mar
eating lions have been playing havoc
so that at last the government was
forced to close the road to traffic. II
is estimated several hundred natives
have lost their lives to these man eat
ing lions. Roosevelt. therefore, doe.
the community special service witt
every lion he kills.