The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-11-25
A COUGAR and Lynx Hunt.
Keystone Ranch. colo,

Kttttout NtAHtUf N'A'st
Jan. tfth. 1891.
BLESSED TED,
From the railroad we drove nny
miles to The little frontier town Of
Meekcr. There we were met by the
hunter Con-, a fine. quiet. hardy fel-
low, who knows his business thor
oughly. Next morning We started
on horseback. while our luggagc Went
by wagon TO GoNs ranch We
started soon after sunrise. and made
our way. hunting a. we went across
the high. exceedingly rugged hills TN
III sunset. We were hunting cougar.
lynx. OF. as they are called out here.
lion and cat" The FIRST cat Ne
put up gave the dogs n Two hours
chase. aud BOT away among some
high clins. In the afternoon We rat
up arother, and had a yery good
hours run. the dogs baylng until Tho
glens rung again to the echoes, rs
they worked hither ans thither
through the raNines. We wa,kea OUT
ponies ap and down steep. rock
strewn, ard tree-clad slopes. whore
a. did not seem possible IA horse
could climb. aud on the level places
we got one or two smart gallops. AZ
last the lynx went up a Tree. Then
4 saw "A fcAliy funny SIGHT CtN+H
hounds had been doing the tgaiiing,
white n large brindl7d bloodhound
and two half-brseds between colilc
and buil aiayed behind Ton, running
80 close to his horses feels that they
continually bumped into them, which
he accepted with phil0sophic COM
posture. Then the dogs proceeded
i,terni.y to climb the tree. which WINS
a many forked pinon; one Of The haif-
breeds, named Tony, got up certainly
sixteen feet, untl the lynx. whi-h
looked like a huge and exceedingly
maleNolent pussy -cat, made vicious
dabs at him. I shot the lynx low, 90
a. not TO hurt his skin.
Yesterday we were in the saddle
for ten hours. Tie dogs ran one lynx
down n killed II among the rocks
after a vigorous cunle n was Ia a.
hole and only two OF them could get
at u.
This morning. soon after starting
out. we struck the cold trail OF a
mountain lion. The hounds puzzled
about for nearly. two hours. going up.
and down the great gorges, until We
sometimes absolutely lost even h
sound OF The baying. Then they
struck the fresh trail. where the
cougar had killed "a deer over night.
In half an hour a clamorOus yelling
told us they had overtaken the
quarry: for We had been riding up
the slopes and along he crests,
wherever Il was possible for the
horses to get footing. As We plunged
and scrambled down towards the
noise. one OF my comparisons, Phil
Stewart. stopped us while he took n
kodak OF a rabbit which sat uncon-
cernealy riEht beside Ous path. soon
we saw the lion In a trcetop, with two
OF the dogs 30 high up among he
branches hat he was striking az
them. lie vas more afraid OF ua
than the dogs, and as soon as he saw
US he ooh a great flying leap and
was of, The pack close behind. In
4 few hundred yards they had him
up another tree. Here | could have
shot hin. tTony ciimbcd almost up
to him, and then fell twenty feet out
OF the uree), but waited for stewhrt
to get a photo; and he Jumped again.
This time, after "A couple OF hundred
yards. the dogs caught him. and "A
great fight followed. They could have
Killed him by themselves. but he bit
or Ciawed four Of them, and for fear
he might Kill n ] ran In ana
stabbed him behind the shoulder,
thruHting the knife you loaned me
right into his heart I have always
wished TO Kill "A cougar as ! did this
one. with dogs and the knife.