Douglas Island news., 1918-11-08
CARIBOU HERDS
 NEAR DAWSON
Account of Interior People Getting Their Supply of Winter Meat
 Is Interesting

The caribou herds that annuall, migrate in the interior at about Chi time of year and the following stor! of the killing of them by DawsoI people will be of interest to folk who have never had a chance to kil deer by the wholesale. This acoun is reprinted from the Dawson Newi of October 25th:
 Klondikcrs galore are reveling 1T the glory of the chase. North, south and west. they have been hot on th' trail of the great herds Of caribou now swarming the hills of the sur. rounding country. Hundreds of these wonderful Arctic deer have been killed, and yet the number taken ii SO few i'm comparison 10 the grand total that no visible or appreciablC diminntion has been caused in tho bands. considered as a whole.
 Where there is any thinning of tho numbers in any particular local Ilty it is due entirely to the herds having moved forward in their trek
 Runners in from the Glacier trail report bands of five to 100 common twenty-five miles out from Dawson while about the swede creek dome the animals swarm in such great herds the snows are packed like ! immense herds of sheep have passed there. and hills seem literally tc move.
 Bands arc also reported up the Irivcr above Dawson thirty miles or DO. and others below Dawson, anu ! lt is thought that some will be cross ! ing before long in the heart of the Hold Klondike camp, as was the case few winters ago.
 Sunday herd appeared below tho village of Moosehide, and caused such excitement among the red faced denlzcns of the place that church services are said Co have been of secondary consideration.
 Teddy Kindred and Harvey Alex andor. who brought down the mail which arrived here yesterday from ! IWhItchorse. reported having seen large bands Of the reindeer on the Ibars and banks of the river near | Reindeer. thirty-nve miles south from Dawson.
 The stampede of hunters along the |Glacier trail witnessed many old ! lime Klondikers and many young. tors hitting the highways. They presented picture as they strod' | forth. Every sort of weapon known since Adam was employed. Rifles of the time of the French revolution Co perfect modern howitzers were brought into play. The roadhouse' were made the bases, and were filled wi.h enthusiastic nimrods, who oc. cu led every inch of space at night | ate everything on hand, and then sallied forth and carried on the bat 1 ue during the day.
 10 is estimated that 200 to BOG caribou had been killed mp to yes. tcrday morning. Some of the hunt. CTS arc still over there with teams and. as the ice has started to run in . tho river since they left, they will .have to leave their horses on that Mdc until after the freezeup. Four. teen to twenty horses are there, and will hay to be supplied with feed from the roadhouses or the farms on the West Dawson side until th' river ice is thick enough to bring the animals across to Dawson.
 sergeants Joy and Dempster o | th police. were out with a four horse team and got tewonty-seyeT caribou. They returned yesterday l Dempster will return today to gel am additional supply, which the DO Ilice will use here and hold in re serve for emergency
 Phil Kelly, Billy Rendell an' George Fulton bagged forty-siX | Kelly was the crack shot of the trio while George. with the horse, wa
 Che champion yarder-out. Billy cap tured tho prize for agility and fanc' shooting. His blunderbuss insiste' on going on whether there was an,
 game i'm sight or not, and the cari hon seemed to resent his terrifi
 drives. and one of them retaliated A huge buck made the trouble. Bill
 had just sat down comfortabl astride the biz fellow and slashe This throat with a bowie knife whe IMr. Buck decided to demonstrat
 that there was.one more kick in hin He gave a lunge, threw Billy thre
 wards In the. hir, and, as he cam
 down. biffed him under the DOT 'lamp with a sledge-hammer blo' , rom a mighty hind les The bi
 boof struck Billy so emphaticall Inc went to sleep for about fiy . minutes. When he awakened he r'
 solved to use more ammunition O
 every "doad" caribou Kelly Flu - ton and RendclI arc back today wit Ian kinds of exciting tales.