Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-08

going round The female then went up :
tree, while the pack followed the male He
would not climb tree and came to bay on
the edge Of cliff. couple Of hundred
yards from the spot we left the horses and
scrambled along on foot, guided BY the furi-
Gus clamor Of the pack.
When we reached them, the cougar had
gone along the face Of the cliff, most OF the
dogs could not see him, and it was some time
before we could make him out ourselves.
Then got up quite close. Although the
moonlight was bright could not see the
sights of my rifle, and fired a little too far
back. The bullet, however, inflicted bad
wound, and the cougar ran along ledge,
disappearing around the cliff shoulder. The
conduct of the dogs showed that he had not
left the cliff, but it was impossible to see him
either from the sides or from below
The cliff was about hundred feet high
and the top overhung the bottom, while
from above the ground sloped down to the
brink at rather steep angle, so that we had
to be cautious about our footing There was
large projecting rock on the brink; to this
clambered down, and, holding it with one
hand, peeped over the edge.
After minute or two made out first the
tail and then the head of the cougar, who
was lying on narrow ledge only some 10
feet below me, his body hidden by the over
hang of the cliff. Thanks to the steepness
OF the incline, could not let go of the rock
with my left hand, because I should have
rolled over; so I got Golf to come down,
brace his feet against the projection, and
grasp me by my legs He then lowered me
gently down until my head and shoulders
were over the edge and my arms free; and
shot the cougar right between the ears, he
being in straight line underneath me.
Strike Fresh Trail.
Next morning we came back as early as
possible, intending first to skin the male and
then to hunt up the female. A quarter of a
mile before we reached the carcass we
struck her fresh trail in the snow of the val
ley. Calling all the dogs together and hust-
ling them forward, we got them across the
trail without their paying any attention to it );
for we wanted to finish the job of skinning
before taking II the hunt. However, when
we got off our horses and pulled the cougar
down to flat place to skin it, Nellie, who
evidently remembered that there had been
another cougar besides the one we had &C
counted for, started away on her own &C
q. count while we were moi looking.
The first thing we knew we heard her Civ
ing tongue on the mountains above us, in
such rough country that there was no use in
trying to head her off. Accordingly we
jumped on the horses again rode down to
where we had crossed the trail and put the
whole pack on it. After crossing the valley
the cougar had moved along the ledses of a
great spur or chain of foot hills, and as this
prevented the dogs going too fast .e were
able to canter alongside them up the valley,
watching them and listening to thei, Chin
ing. We finally came to large hillside bare
of snow, much broken with rocks among
which grew pa.~">- II brush and scattered
pinyons. Here the dogs were at fault for
over an hour 1t had evidently been a ia
vorite haunt of the cougars; they had
moved to and fro across it, and had lain
summing themselves in the dust under the
lodges. Owing to the character of the
:, ground we could give the hounds no assist
ance, but they finally puzzled out the trail
for themselves.
We were now given good illustration OF