The Washington times., 1910-05-14
my Story of My Life"
-epyrikht. Isio by Mcclure Se~ssarsr
Syndicate Copyright in Canada Gzd
Great Britain. All Rights Reserved
CHAPTER Ii.
How / Lived While Out of the
Riup-The Johnson Match

- settled down now to a oulet-famfly
life. No more stage work. no more
fighting. I believed that I'd never put
OF a fighting glove again I bought a
fine ranch Of AS acres near Los An
geIes. with q country house on #, and
became q farmer again. For two years
I worked hard on my ranch clearing
away the brush and then putting a
hundred acres in alfalfa. which grows
eight crops a year in nay country
di6 the heavv work myself and I never
enjoyed life more than Gown On tle
ranch. 7 was tired or fuss and pub
ncIty. Here I was just farmer again
From time to time. Of course. went
70 see q good hght somewhere or other
or took a good hunting trip 10 the
mountains or went fishing at Catalina
where we have the best fishing N the
world. I was as healthy as man
cold be Il used 10 make me laugh
when some one sent me the papers ana
read stories Of my "d1SSipaLed Ire
Why, no man since Noah's time ever
lived q cleaner life than / did, up carry
and to bed early after a hard day
work
after two years on the ranch Z built
g, fine town house, with every thing IN
Il that one could want and everything
the best could buy. 7 won't say Vsf.at
Il cost, but It's insured for $500. so
Us something Of q house. In the same
year ] bought track OF land near
the town, cut II Up into lots and sold
again with profit OF $4,000. a friend
Of mine and myself cleared S35. 600 on
anc Their tract. so I didn't need TO fight
TO earn money In the next year
went Into partnership win snother
friend and we got one OF the zoo par
licenses In Los Angeles and built the
finest cafe west Of NV York That
was a big money maker, too Fitting
il up cost over s50.0vV. I moved into
town now TO my big house and attend
ed u the cafe Because 1 was there so
much Of the time the old stories about
my drinking broke out again ] never
did drink to any extent Ny limit was
usually a glass Of charged water with
about a spoonful Of claret in Il, and
only few Of those.
More Hunting Trips
In the meantime went hunting and
fishing as usual One OF my best hunt
ing trips was on the north FORK az the
Mackenzie river in Oregon. This was
the best hunting 1 ever struck went
with a party Of my friends from Los
Angeles-Cy BIyrick. Fred AIaier, Hop
perstead and a few others. II was
FIRST we went 70 Eugene. Oregon,
and then BY stage 70 Belknap. There
We got guides and PLUNGED yI1s7.5 stTal js,L5
never been over the ground before
where we travelled It was one OF the
few uneZplored sections left IN our
tEaI for fifteen miles through the
The first day out OF BeIknap We
srr1cE one Of the wild game trails
me me deer 20 so71tb rom the cas-
Csde mountains 70 escape The terrible
winter cold I saw q big spike head
buck meaudsrtnE along down the trail
and took q shot at him The bullet
went away over his head. and I saw
that some one had bsen moukeying
with the sights OF my gun sat down
10 readJusr them and Just then heard
8 slight noise and looked Up.
A tremendous mountain lion naG
Jumped out from the brush along the
trail just ahead OF me and had landed
on a rock IN the river. I whipped the
rife TO my shoulder and let him have
Il He leaped straight Into the air
turning the finest back sOEnersault ]
ever saw nor out o. a circus he zen
into the water and scrambled out on
the bank again was Just about TO
give him the second shot when heard
another scratching sound ana turned
n time 70 see another lion coming ny
way on the trail II was the maIG-
suppose. OF the first
There wasn't any time 70 lose I
broke OF my engagement with the
wounded lion and turned my attention
20 the one nearest home The first
shot killed # We found the carcass Of
the other one a few days later Game
surely was thick I'D there In 4 few
minutes, the first cay out 1 got q dear
and two lions
AFEeE LEfe1L game "a sun
/ fusion that can't describe It We
saw herds Of elk OF more than thirty
head We get bear and deer and lions
One lion We chased five miles through
the forest on horseback. Finally he
got into some heavy brush where our
I horses couldn't follow. but We rode
hard and made a wide circle and killed
him as he came out the other side
As for the fishing. there were 50 many
trout IN the streams that fishing was
Il tame sport I could easily cast line
with three hooks and GET trout on
ever hook That's too much ike buy
ing them IN a store There's such g
thing as game being too plentiful. I
dor'T know but & was about as much
fun 10 hunt through the Tehschipi
mountains. near home and get a bear
or q deer now and then after a little
harder work
When not hunting OF working : mixed
I ID with the fighting game little, often
4 refereeinE important GS1tS. One OF
i these was the Hart-Root fight up IN
Nevada. The promoters asked me 20
/ officially present the heavyweight title
10 the winner. I refused Nobody can
give away championships. But they told
/ everybody 7 had given" the title 70
/ Hart after he stopped Root, and I didn't
I reLa the trouble 10 dEnV 10.