El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-28
Fin, Fur and F e til
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Riff, Rod and Scatter Gun
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well to take along few duck loads on
trips made during the coming week
Franz, FORBES, Of Topeka, Kas., who
snent a week hunting in the Sacra-
mento mountains in November with Z.
A. Cass. J. c. Tandy and E. II. Rogers,
writes to his friends here that turkey
gobbler killed by himself at the head
Of Drv canyon. in the MescalerO indian
reservation, weighed p pounds in To-
DeIza seven days after killed and
dressed. Mr. Forbes killed the bird
with a shotgun, using No. shot.
In speaking of hunting and the plen-
ftude of small game close to Ell PaSO.
first sergeant c. :. Douglass OF the
goth infantry said that he hal hunted
on numerous hunting grounds in diff
ferent sections Of the country and tha1
he had seen very few places where
hunting was as good as it is in south
west Texas and New Mexico. He said
rabbits are plentiful in the vicinity Of
Fort Bliss and that this IS really le-
markable considering the number Of
soldiers who have been stationed theI
and the number who have been hunt
ing ever since the season opened.
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Corporals R. r McCracken and J.
c. Cahiu, both crack shots of the goth
infantry, spent Sunday hunting in the
Franklin range. Although they car
ried rifles instead of shotguns, they
brought back nine quail and IA rab-
bits. They got every bird on the wing.
n. Rheinheimer took a run up to the
ranch Of an old friend, P. Roach, at
Leasley, n. NJ, and on Sunday the two
went in search Of game. Th7y. re
manned out all day, making a hait at
noon to cook and eat soma Of the birds
they had shot. They found Uirds plen-
tiful but rabbits scarce, not rabbit
being sighted during the day. They
managed to bag eight ducks, II geese,
Is doves and % quail,
Kneeland Jenkins, Ben Jenkins, jr.,
and Fred Kitchner went on hunting
expedition by auto to Fort Hancock
the auto and camped under that SAT-
urday night. The party returned Sum
day afternoon, bringing with them 43
quail, II ducks, Is rabbits and four
squirrels. They also shot two hawks
on the trip. They say that the Fort
Hancock region has been hunted very
little and game there is very plentiful.
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J. L. Powers and L. 0. Robertson left
Saturday on a hunting trip in the vi
cinity OF Lobo. They are. going after
big game principally and will return
to FL Paso Sunday.
Greg Pollard, Ed Perry, Donald Light
and Jack Oliver spent Tuesday hunting
in the vicinity Of Cottonwood Springs.
Birds are plentiful in that section, out
rabbits are scarce. They say that very
few rabbits were seen and those they
did sight were so wild that it was i'm
possible to get a good shot at them
They did not get a single rabbit, but
shot Is quail and So doves, larks and
other birds.
jack rabbit started up in front Of
Jack divers horse and so startled the
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same time. Oliver was thrown from
the horse. but his foot hung in the
stirrup. A moment later the horse
plunged into barbed wire fence, the
fence held and turned the animal
throwing Oliver into the wire. The
barbs caught in his clothes and tore
his foot loose from the sttrrup. This
probably saved his life, as 1t Is prnF-
able that had he not caught in The
fence he would have been dragged to
death. He was badly scratched and his
clothes were almost torn from his
body so that it was necessary for him
to pin his saddle blanket around him
to get home.
Ray Gilbert and Ralph Tateman
went on a hunting trip north Of Hsle[a
last Sunday. They took the interuroan
to Ysleta, and upon arriving there
struck out for the footnilIs to the
north. They say that game Is quite
plentiful in the lower hills in that dis
trict They secured IA quail, u cotton
tails and three jack rabbits. Ray Gil
bert shot one jack rabbit in a very pc
culiar way. He did not kill the rabbit.
hut completely disabled him by break
ing all four of the rabbits legs with
his first shot.
Harry and Hugh McKemy spent
Tuesday hunting beyond Fort Bliss.
4 They say rabbits are quite plentiful
but there are no birds there. Harry
! secured most of the game, he getting
nine Of the IS rabbits they brought in
Miss Blanche Davis, H. f. Cornwall.
sr, II. f. Cornwall, jT. and R. Messt-
! mer went hunting by auto below Fa-
bens Sunday. They report game plen-
| tifuI in that region. The party re-
mained out only a short time, but
were able to secure eight cottontalIs
and 10 quail
Owing to the work incidental to the
Christmas holidays. very few have
/ been hunting during the past week.
I and it is unlikely there will be much
hunting done until after the first Of
the year. Many of the older school
boys hunt a great deal during the sea-
son, but most of these have quit for
the holidays.
There was one big event with guns
this week as q turkey shoot was held
on the Sunset range.