Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
HUNTING AND FISHING
BY Frederic j. Haskin

the caribou still roam wild, and herds
containing 10000 animals are ire
quently seen.
For deep sea fishing the whaler st.
Lawrence broke the worlds record last
winter by capturing 31S whales in
single season. of these 241 were hump-
backs. sixty-six sulphur-bottoms, ten
f1nbacks and one sperm whale. Win
all this great catch there was not
single serious accident. Inc moueIn
whaler uses the latest twentieth CEN
turv methods in his work. He raises
the dead whale to the surface with
compressed air. An incision is maue
in the body and q connection estap-
lished with the airpump. When the
carcass is sufficiently buoyant the IN
cision is plugged up with oakuin Gnu @
carcass is then turned adrift until the
days work is over when the wnole
catch Is towed to the whaling station.
II has been said that in the great pack
ing houses everything about pig Is
saved but his squeal; at moueIn
whaling station everything is saved
but the spout.
A western inventor has patented
steel trap for catching fish. 1t is very
much like the ordinary steel-Jawed
fox trap, except that the Jaws are per-
pendicular instead of horizontal.
hook is baited and the trap let down
into the water. The moment nsn
touches the bait the jaws close and the
victim is held secure. Another IN
ventor has patented a trap which
catches the body of an animal as well
as a leg It consists of four upright
pieces extending above the jaws Oh
the trap.
When former President Roosevelt
= ha xvi1 find 1mnQT0T
William a no less enthusiastic sports-s
man than himself. AS q hunter the
kaiser has had some exciting times,
and nothing but his office has pre-
vented him from tackling the big game
of Africa. AT his hunting lodge at
Potsdam simplicity marks everything.
The hunting horses are all English
bred roans. and the dogs are English
fox hounds taken across the channel
when they were pups. There are
seventy hounds in the pack, and the
emperor personally has watched over
their training. He has two sets of ken
neIs, one of which is occupied every
other day while the other is being
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
What the greyhound OF this country
is to the deer hunter the cheeta Is to
the native antelope hunters OF Africa.
1t is known as the hunting leopard.
The only point where real skill comes
into play in dealing with them is IN
capturing the adult animal. The
young cheeta cannot be trained as
hunter. There are certain trees to
which the older ones go to whet their
claws, and around these trees are tied
many nooses of deerskin. The leg OF
the cheeta is caught in one of these
nooses when he begins his ciaw-sharp-
ening operation. He is then carried
Ii III.
This consists in his being bound and
blndfolded. tormented and starved,
kept awake when he wants to sleep
and handled so persistently and rough
ly in other ways that ho gives up In
despair and becomes as abjectly tame
as he formerly was wild.
When the training period is over and
he Is to play the part of the hunting
dog he is taken into the field with q
hood over his head. When fairly close
upon the quarry he is given sight of
the game, and such a superb race en-
sues that one sportsman declared IT
worth a trip from Europe to Africa to
see a single antelope caught In this
way. The cheeta is perhaps natures
nearest combination of the cat and the
dog. Its claws are only partially re-
tractile. and 1t has so many canine
characteristics that 1t sometimes is
called the dog-cat. Very few of the
American and English hunters who
visit East Africa use the cheeta in their
operations.
The North American big game is now
to be found mainly in Canada and
Alaska The moose, in addition to be-
ing monarch of the Canadian woods, Is
the largest and most powerful species
of deer now in existence. Like all 9TH
er game, 1t is now protected by strln-
gent laws, and hunting is allowed for
only a few weeks at the end Of each
year. The most popular method OF
hunting these animals Is known as
calling" This is done by an Indian
guide with a birch-barlS trumpet, who
initiates the low of the COW. IL this
fails the call is changed to the sub
dued challenge of the enraged bull. To
complete this deception the guide
breaks off branches of trees and
thrashes his horn against the bushes.
What is claimed to be the biggest
moose ever killed in Canada is one that
was shot this year on the shores OF
Georgian bay. The spread of this horns
is hfty-eght inches, and the length
from hoof to horn fifteen feet seven
inches. 1t required six days for four
men to bring the carcass twenty-three
miles through the forest to the railway