The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
n Turf Is Magnet for American Dollars

remote parts of Siberia would furh'S"
a perfect paralise for sportsmen
In many places in Siberia, along INC
Chinese and Manchnrian borders. the
long haired Tiger still is to be tounu
in considerable numbers. and thc intges1
bears in the world arc to be iounu
in The Alisi mountains. ! nave one
dear friend who has spcnt nearly all h,s
life in Siberia ms hunter una eol9
miner. He is born naturahst an'
one of the most fascinating men hhse
ever met He speaks seven dlherehI
lanp1,apes, all equally well.
For all the world he looks i'ke n
typical western American MINING iudn'
He has. believe. shot more bears tnan
any man living. He rs no" man OF ao'
vanccd Years AMI. although as active as
ever he has told me he now bates 10
destroy life, and takes his hunting
pleasures in merely watching 1he am
mails he used 10 love to shoot; ,..
remember one beautiful starllt,
autumn evening in Russia. We we're
sore thirty miles from St Petersburg.
where This most delightful character
lives, He is beloved by all III the
neighborhood as he never refuses 10
help any one, anl III consequence Is
always more or less in state OF pow
nrty. Were il not for an old siberian
woman cook. who loves her master AMI
occasionally puts her foot down ana
throws the "bumms ort. he would get
nothing To eat.
Fight IN Forest.
On this paEticular evening he sara
he would take me into the forest ana
show me tho strange behavior OF ths
capercailzce. These are birds about
tie size of turkeys. strong on the wing
10
exceedingly shv. When not III hight
they perch on the tops OF the hlghest
trees and live of the Young shoots
OF the fir tree. II is only Mt niGht
vou find them on the ground. aud TINS
Is what we vent to see. Baron Jhaub'
enberg. nv friend. had sent his keeper
scouting to locate the birds. and when
we neared tho spot we crawied on
hands and knees As near as we coulo
to where the birds were coDgreeaIeo;
| saw most extraordinary sight
There were some thirty OF these enor
nous birds, and for all the world II
was like "a boxing ring. The female
birds we're all grouped in q circle. anc
| in the center were two cock birds fight
| ing for all thew were worth, and or
the outside of the ring therc were fev
eral other cock birds apparently wait
| ing to see how the fight would 60, anc
| pioneering WntIufE. tHtf nOui'i thrN ~
! the victor or NOT The female birds
made strange cultural ''crieks' and {
tremendous noise by flappIng thei1
| wings.
Just Mt the critical moment whel
one of the cocks apparently WAS goinl
to lay the other ont | sneezed, and II
an instant the whole troupe of birds
uncanny in their iutclligence-ha van
isbcd into the forest, aud we saw then
no more.
7 may SAY thai in reaching the bat
| tleground we crawled through severa
swamps, and wheu I reached home
was wet through, but the baron SCENE,
to think nothing Of this. Night afte
night he used to go to the forest ant
spend hours studying its deniZeus. Th
next evening he took mo 10 see th
woodcocks fighting. | learne'
much of the beauties of nature from
this great naturalist.
have often thought that. If h
could only be induced 10 come Il
America and lecture on the heautic
and wonders Of Russia-cspecially Si
IBERIA, which he loved so wcll-he woulc
make q great hit and refill that enpt,
purse that his generosity always KEEP
practically empty. He also would Civ
a great amount of pleasure to Ameri
cans, who always are so anxious t.
hear of anything truly beautiful an
natural.