White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-18
OF sPORTsMEN
AMOUNT TO OVER
l4OO RABBITS

and Gun club. Everything went just
as well as it could excepting for
the rabbits. The Bunny family were
glad when ii was over and the special
train bearing the hunters had disap-
peared toward the south.
The day was all that the most ex-
acting sportsman could wish for, and
the good time commenced as soon as
the special train left hurry street at
6:45 until the return to that point
about I in the evening. There were
about 1913 people on board including
the delegation from McGill, led by
Charlie Holmes. There We're also a
number of ladies in the party and
some of them went hunting, and
brought back the rabbits just to
show they could shoot.
The squads of hunters commenced
leaving the train at Currie. and from
there all the way to Mizpah, the men
with the shot guns spread out in the
sagebrush, and the rabbit population
decreased with every shell ~discharg-
ed-aimost.
Arriving at Mizpah. on time to the
minute, non We're left on board but
the train crew, the ladies. a couple of
non-hunters. and Grandpa" Bill
Harris, who as official chicken in
spector, deputy game warden and
constable ex-olficio a immune
from the hunting. Then departed
two of the train crew, Senator Jake
Fulmer and Mig Steele. with their
guns and munitions. to return just
before the train was due 10 leave.
loaded down with rabbits and
registering the first game deposited In
the baggage car to be recorded by
Grandpa" Harris, who was also Of
fetal score keeper. 1t vas lucky the
first rabbits we're recorded for by the
time the train had reached Currie,
the rabbits were piled nearly to the
roof of the baggage IA and Grand
pa" had more figures in his little
book than a government census
taker.
At Cherry Creek there was just
room enough in the baggage car to
load on another big white barrel of
full ones" and then the train fled
towards Ely. while the hunters
snapped experiences and tried in
vain to corrupt the score keeper with
padded returns. But "Gramp'
seemed to be able to call every rab-
bit by It's first name. and at the same
thwarted the alleged attempt OF
Harry Stebbins to unload one hun
dred more of the %long-ears at East
Ely than the count called for.
But incidentally Grandpa said
the crowd behaved pretty we'll con-
sidering and only once did he have TO
exert official authority when he de-
tected Jim Bennett with a bag of
dice trying to start a crap game on
the way to the hunting grounds.
The official count of punctured
rabbits as turned in with the assist
ance OF Sam Basham. was 1440 plus
and as the average weight was es-
timated at six pounds the result Of
the hunt can easily be reekoned in
tons. As to the handsome prizes Of
fered by Mr.. Ernest S. Tanner of
San Francisco, the first went to Joe
Williams who turned In an even
forty rabbits, while big Charlie
Holmes of McGill won second prize
with 80. Mr.. Tanner was amons
the hunters, but had a little hard
luck at the start off as his first
shooting was done with some 20
yard shells that he got hold of by
mistake. Nevertheless, he had a lot
of fun, and later proved his marks
manship.
Nimrod Hamilton of MeGill bag
ged S6, and the other cores ran all
the way from one-put on the train
by Bob Hildebrand- to 81. Rob
shot a lot more but left them with a
friend. There is believed to be no
truth in the malicious report that
the target shells furnished Mr.. Tan
ner were surreptitiously slipped over
by Joe Darke, Jim Bennett, Doc.
Wadleigh and Jim Collins for fear
that the Californian would score too
heavily we the Ely champs.
While the men were hunting and
during the wait at Mizpah. the la
dies played 800" for the Tanner
card prizes. Mrs. George Thompson
winning the first prize and Mrs. J. S.
Bennett the second.
The result of the hunt made a
hole in the Monday profits of the To-
cat meat dealers, as the odor of rab.