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BACK-TRAILING on the OLD Drawing by CHARLES M THE CHOTEA!! MONTANAN. BACK-TRAILING ON THE OLD Drawing by CHARLES M. RUSSELL LIONESS ESCAPES; HOW BOY SOUGHT ATTACKS HUNTER HIS DEAD FATHER LIBBY’S FAMOUS LIVE ANIMAL GROPED HIS WAY THROUGH UN­ TRAPPER HAS MOST THRIL­ DERGROUND WORKINGS TO LING EXPERIENCE SCENE OF ROCK FALL Lioness Gnaws Her Way Out of the Found Parent’s Body Pinned Under Wooden Cage and With Cubs She Heavy Rock; Had Handful of Matches to Light Him on His Way; Leaves for the Woods; in Effect­ Narrowly Missed Death by Falling ing Her Capture, M. H. Bakker Has Into Shaft. Finger Bitten Off. The story of tho many quakes The first injury of importance and fears he felt as he groped his that M. H. Bakker, Libby’s famous way 200 feet underground by the live lion hunter, has received dur­ flickering glare of matches to ing the years he has been engaged in his hazardous employment oc­ search for his foster father, Wil­ curred recently, when a lioness he liam Medlyn, who lay pinned be­ had captured snapped off half of neath a fall of rock, was related the little finger on his left hand. by 10-ycar-old Harry Howard of The accident happened near his Butte. ranch, a short distance up the river How he paused at the brink of from Libby. The lioness was one captured by him in the Fisher river the frowning pit to muster up his country last fall, and the one that courage before he could bring him­ has since her capture become the self to grasp the first rung of the mother of four kittens, two of them frail ladder and begin his tortuous still alive and healthy. descent down the prospect hole was This lioness has been one of the told in true boyish fashion. hardest to subdue in Bakker’s ex­ "Yes, I guess I was pretty scared, but I knew something had happened perience. She has always showed Ì-J the greatest ferocity, and she man­ when dad failed to come home at the usual time. Going down the ladder, aged to gnaw her way out of the wooden cage in which she was con­ though, wasn’t the worst of it for I fined at the Bakker ranch. could feel something under my feet. Two Deer Killed “When I really got scared waB Strange Fate of John Jacob Astor’s Ship, Tonquin; while I was feeling my way along the She and her cubs struck out for the timber, and proceeded about a drift. I had a handful of matches, mile from the Bakker place. There Terrible Revenge of Sole Survivor of Murdered Crewbut there was a cool breeze that made they encountered a young buck deer, them flicker and go out. I had just killed it and ate about two-thirds of struck one of my matches and start­ the carcass, hiding the rest under No disaster of the sea hasown peculiar style. Fitting uptrade a with the captain on his ownwere caught and stabbed to death,ed forward when I looked down and Borne brush. The mother lioness then brought to a ship a more dramaticlarge, light bark canoe, they trans­terms. He accepted, and a hurriedthe remaining four escaping tosaw the something dark ahead of me. made a bed under a brush pile for or tragic fate than that which portedin it by wagon from the tradeSt. of otter skins, mostly forcabin where they found Lewis alive“I struck another match and then herself and her young. It must have Lawrence to Lake Champlain, tra­knives, be^an. Suddenly, while butthe helpless from his wound. TheI felt the ‘goose bumps’ running up been very soon after they settled 1811, off the wild and rocky coast down to rest that another young versed the length of the lake insails it, were being shaken out and fourthe sailors barred the door andand down my back. I was standing buck passed the place, because theof Vancouver Island, befell theagain put it on wheels and finallyanchor was nearly up, a wild yellbroke holes through the companionon the edge of another shaft. There dead body of this second deer wasbrig Tonquin, pride and hopelaunched of it on the Hudson at Lan-burst forth from the red men,way, soon clearing the decks withwas a ladder sticking up and I grab­ found within twenty feet of the lair.John Jacob Astor, in his great singburgh.Pa­ Down the river theyknives and war clubs were bran­muskets found in the cabin. Theybed it and started dow’n. The young lions were too small cific to coast trading venture. No "Every once in a while I would have made the kill themselves, and swept with song and flourish,dished and every white man on thenthe trained deck guns on the‘holler’ de­ to dad and it would sound Bakker made sure, by using his dogs, flight of imagination in fictionrounding of Manhattan under th^deck as­ was attacked by several sav­parting canoes, killing a number of the seven seas outdoes in climax like a dozen voices w'ere answering that no other lions were in the vicin­ tonished gaze of burghers whoages. had The first to fall was onetheir occupants. The interpreterme. Sometimes, way off, I would ity. He said that this was the bestthis historical incident of Indiannever before seen such a craft. Lewis, ship’s clerk, who washad gone ashore with the otherthink In­ 1 heard his voice, but it was evidence he has recently seen of thetreachery and revenge by a desper­The Tonquin, after an unevent­knocked down the companion-waydians. not until I reached the bottom of the deer-killing propensities of mountain ate white man. lions. Between the time the animals ful journey, rounded the Hornwith on a mortal knife wound in his winze and found the big rock lying escaped from their cage until theIn June, 1810, Astor had wellChristmas in day, and after variousback. McKay was hurled over­Four Sailors Captured and Put onto him that 1 knew what bad hap­ time he ran them down with his dogs hand his ambitious' plan for con­adventures dropped anchoj ,inboard the and killed by women inDeath With Revolting Torturespened.” only one hour elapsed. trol of the great Northwestern fur The lad then returned and secured mouth of the Columbia river canoes.on The leader of the IndiansThat night the four sailors hisput little playmate, Fred Williams, Bites Off His Finger trade by the establishment of a lineMarch 25th, 1811. On June 5th,attacked Captain Thorn, but wasto sea in a boat for Astoria, but It was only after an exceptionally of communication and trading and together they were returning to hard fight that the lioness submitted good progress having been killedmade with the officer’s claspknife.being unable to weather a pointthe shaft when they met a group of to capture. After Bakker had drag­posts from St. Louis up the Mis­in building a fortified trading post,The captain,-however, was at onceof land, took refuge in a cove.men who descended into the mine ged her from the tree and tied her, souri to the Rockies and downthe the Tonquin set sail to coast north­overwhelmed and his lifeless bodyThere they were captured whileand removed the body from beneath he was putting a muzzle on herColumbia to the Pacific. The wholeward for trading with twenty-threethrown into the sea. The membersasleep by Indians, and after beingthe rock. They were followed by mouth when, with a lightning-like project centered about the estab­men aboard. An Indian interpreterof the crew defended themselvesheld a day were put to death withboth of the boys, each of whom snap she caught his little finger be­ steadfastly refused to be left behind. tween her teeth and cut it off cleanly.lishment at the mouth of the Col­was soon picked up, and steeringdesperately, but in a few minutesrevolting tortures, which the inter­ Injuries received during the strug­umbia of a great trading post, “Were you scared, Freddie?” ask­ to the north, Captain Thorn allin were a killed excepting seven menpreter witnessed. ed Henry, as he finished his story. gle in the tree resulted in the death which might be constantly suppliedfew days cast anchor off Vancou­aloft making sail. Three of theseThe morning after the attack on of the lioness a short time afterward. from Atlantic coast markets by "Uh-huh! Were you?” replied bis The two cubs were taken back to the ver’s Island, against the advice of little chum. ranch. merchant vessels and would formthe interpreter, who warned him of “Uh-huh!” and with an arm over Bakker and his partner, R. M.a base for the extension of coast­the treachery of the island natives-. each other’s shoulders they ambled Rickard, returned recently from New­wise and inland operations. TheHe following morning the IndiansIHlOWálR© E á t iij FIH O T S fi0yPE5 off toward home, kicking the snow port, where they captured six moun­bought as his first ship to send as they went. tain lions. Four of the animals were in their picturesque canoes swarm­ brought here, and two were shipped around Cape Horn to the Pacificed about the ship to trade. TheIB á M E i ©F infilili© ' DS ©Eá© to eastern zoos. Bakker says thethey Tonquin, two hundred sightand was one of unusual interest the ship the Indians, believing the received an unusual ovation whenninety tons, and mountingto tenthe men from eastern Canada vessel to be deserted, again flocked they entered Newport with their cap­guns.
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