The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-12-09
WAL TER TAYLOR AND COMPANIONS
SPEND SEVERAL DAYS IN N. MEXICO
MOUNTAINS-DR HALL KILLS BEAR

frontier. Following our last years
trail through Roswell, up the Hondo
River and over the Mountains to
Magdalena, n. NJ. Here our party
was joined by j. p Stuppi, l.. N.
Taylor and Ross Sley as well as the
two sons Of Mr. Stuppi. The three
first named Of these Madgalenaites
are old frontiersmen by nature and
by habit Captain Stuppi talks three
languages when in a good humor and
can swear in four when agitated
Captain l.. N. Taylor has spent 40
years in prospecting and mining in
the western wilds and is an ideal
comrade in camp. Mr. Sley, better
known as Crazy Horse is an all round
utility man wherever you place him.
His old Ford car consisted Of four
rickety wheels, two crooked axles,
and a cracked engine, and yet he
climbed mountains, jumped canyons
and made the two hundred mile trip
the same as if he had been travelling
in an auto.
We pitched camp at the base Of Fox
mountain on the morning Of the 10th,
placed camp in order and prepared
for a big hunt the next day Every
man was out in the hunting range
the next morning by daylight. ]
heard Doctor Halls rifle fire and
saw him going into camp soon there
after When ] came into camp ]
asked Doc why he did not continue
hunting. He said that Immediately
after he fired. he heard four or five
other shots fired from the different
mountain sides around him and that
he would not hunt in a place where
so much shooting was going on.
However, when he learned that no
one else had fired a gun and that
the firing he heard was the echo from
his own gun, he decided to hunt
again.
An were in the woods again early
the next morning before daylight
Doctor Hall is precise, methodical
and careful, so he had provided him
self with a pocket compass and SPOT
ted the mountain peaks as guides. He
crossed a dim road soon after leav-
ing camp, but he did not see il on
account Of the darkness After a
long hunt in the Mountains; thirsty
and hungry, he started for camp.
When he reached the before men
toned road that he had crossed in
the dark, he decided that he was lost.
The Mountain peaks had been turn
ed round and his compass had gone
crazy and was pointing east for
north He turned back into the
mountains and rambled around until
dark We heard his signal gun and
bowling, which we answered and he
came in
The writer can initiate the wild
turkey in his every language and had
been instructing his brother Oh W.
Taylor i'm the art SO he could call the
wild turkeys up % within gun shot.
As evidence Of how well he was pro-
crossing, he was practicing the call
on the side Of a desolate mountain, /
when a wolf came bounding over the
bushes and was in forty feet Of Ben
before he knew e. He fired on the
wolf as it whirled from him. Ben +.
came in and laid his caller aside de- /.
claring that he would not use "a caller .
that brought wolves instead Of tur-
keys We moved camp from Fox f.
mountain 20 Apache Peak on the 9Th .
day On the morning of the 9th, +
Doctor Hall and | left camp before
daylight, sneaking along the west
side of the mountain about two miles
from camp Doc was near the foot
and / some 800 feet up among the
cliffs. / heard Does gun fire 6 times
In succession, then week whoop,
then several more whoops, each a lit-
De- louder. His shouts sprangled out at
he last like the frazzled end Of
rope / knew that something un-
usual had happened and hurried down
he mountain. Doc was sitting astride