Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 29, 1926 Page: 44 of 65
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PART THREE
WICHITA DAILY TIMES
SUNDAY. AUGUST M. 1986
TH
LAST GREAT BUFFALO HUNT
Congratulations to the New Holt Hotel
NEA
Above is shown a herd of wild buffaloes as they reamed so years ago. Buffalo hung up for earving,
A. H. Leonard, owner of herd. *
By NEA Servire.
SALT LAKE CITT, Aug. 28.—On
wild, rooky Antelope Island, in the
southern part of Great Salt Lake e
- herd of 850 buffaloes roams In care-
less freedom. They are untamed and
fearless, living just as their fore-
bears did centuries ago—the last
herd of truly wild buffaloes In
America.
But the sportsmen have marked
them for slaughter. Early in No-
vember there will begin a great
buffalo hunt, probably the last of
its kind that the nstlon will ever
see. Hunters with long-range rifles
will rids over the 33,000 acres of
uncultivated crags, firing at every
buffalo they see. Ths hunt will end
only when all but a ecant 10 of the
original 350 are left alive.
Build Up a New Herd.
These 10 will be allowed to so
unmolested. In the course of time
it le hoped that they will again
build up the herd to Ita former size.
A century ago, it is believed,
there were 20,000,000 buffaloes In
■ the United States. But sportsmen
killed there by the thousands, and
In 1899 It was estimated that there
were less than a thousand of them
left. The people became alarmed
at the approaching extinction of
these wild creatures and protective
measures were adopted. Laborious-
ly captive herds were Incrossed, and
now It is believed thsrs are ap-
proximately 0,000 buffaloes alive,
Great Salt Lake are owned by A.
who bought them from the Buffalo
Island Company last spring. They
had all grown up on ths Island un-
H. Leonard of Fort Pierre, S. D.,
molested and free, and are as wild
as any of the buffaloes that roamed
the western plains befors the white
men came.
Leonard planned to remove them
to his ranch In South Dakota. But
they were too wild to be horded ae
tame buffaloes are herded. It was
impossible. So he decided on the
great buffalo hunt, to which he has
invited the country’s moot famous
hunters—men who have ehot lions
and tigers In India and Africa but
who had never dreamed that they
would have the privilege of'hunt-
ing wild American buffaloes.
The hunting will be done on
horseback, and will require skilled
riding and clever marksmanship. No
horseman will be able to ride cas-
ually alongside a bull and shoot It
down. He must stalk it and de-
unnecessary cruelty to the animals®
that roamed the plains by the mil-
Ilona 50 years ago.
For a number of years tbsy havs
roamed In perfect freedom, consti-
tuting an interesting relic of Amer-
ica's vanished west. But their days
are numbered. The sportsmen are
oiling their rifles. The invitations
are out.
It will be a wonderful hunt More
than 300 buffaloes will be shot
down. There will be tanned buffalo
hides and thick buffalo steaks for
the hunters, not to mention the thrill
of killing sntmsls that ordinarily
are not to be hunted. And there
will be scores of skeletons left to
bleach on the wind-swept. Isolated
Island, and 10 of the original 350
animals will roam among them, left
to build up the herd again—per.
haps for another hunt.
YALE SEISMOGRAPH HAS
% CODDLING INFANT’S CARE
from the observer and almost In
every hour of daylight It la examin-
ed to see if the scratching of the
needle in Ite delicate recorded de-
vices shows signs of an sarth tre-
mor.
So sensitive is the eelemograph
that the hard breathing of a man
close by it will start ths needle in
motion and the slamming of a door
will cause it to vibrate with some
show of violence. The records are
made by the needle scratching on
coot-coated rice paper placed on a
drum which revolves beneath the
needle st the rate of .009 inch per
second, or one revolution of the
drum per hour. Each day the record
le removed and the minute mark-
ings Son the root developed by use
of a spray of shellac and alcohol.
These records are sent to the Geo-
detic Survey Bureau In Washington
for study.
C-A-L-L-I-N-G T-H-E
H-O-L-T H-O-T-E-L
IN THOSE NEW
Hotel Uniforms
Beautifully made of dark green material trimmed
in black with lettering in gold with caps to match
FURNISHED BY
nearly all captives.
The buffaloes on this island
pend on long shots. The Island Is
10 miles long and has very little
level ground.
These buffaloes, incidentally, were
the ones that were photographed In
the moving picture, "The Covered
Wagon,” Getting them within range
of the cameras was a difficult and
perilous task, and one photographer
saw his camera trampled under foot
by a bellowing herd, while he bare-
ly escaped with hle life.
Many people in Utah are protest-"
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (P)—A cod-
dling Infant and the new seismo-
graph at Peabody Meseum. Tale
University, are very much alike In
certain respects. Both need the
most painstaking attention.
The machine deep in the basement
of the museum, with Its foundations
on bed rock, is kept in a glass nurs-
ery. Like an Infant It receives con-
stant care that both the growing
the rheumatic pains of Mother Earth
may be faithfully recorded.
Every day for two or three hours.
In ing against the hunt, claiming It is the seismograph is given attention
BERLIN, PP)—Police no longer try
unofficially to discourage women
from taking the difficult tecta for
automobile drivers’ licences in Ber-
lin. Severn! motor vehicle districts
have praised women as drivers, say-
Ing they are usually more careful
than men, although as a general
rule they were either “hopeless" or
"excellent" with no inbetween class.
As a result ths mechanical need
of tests for women has been eased
up. Hitherto women as well as
men had to inks apart and put to-
gether the principal parts of an
automobile engine.
hLU
, CLOTHIERS
Where Seventh Street Crosses Indiana
Wichita Falls’ Largest Store for Men end Boys
The Home of HICKEY-FREEMAN
Customized Clothes
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• • ♦ * * -
All Food Kept
in Perfect Condition
That Is Served By
The Holt Hotel
Coll
Shop
. EQUIPPED WITH
LIPMAN AUTOMATIC
REFRIGERATION
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The Meat, Milk, Salads, Water and everything served
at the Holt Hotel is cooled and kept in perfect condition
at all times with Lipman Automatic Refrigeration.
Increased patronage of restaurants and coffee shops al-
ways results from the use of Lipman Automatic Re-
frigeration.
A. F. AVERA, LOCAL SALES ENGINEER
THE HOLT HOTEL
General Refrigeration Company
Shirland Ave. A Beloit, Wisconsin
111
1N
OLD OF THE
%n
Congratulations to
Wichita Falls
The beautiful new HOLT HOTEL that opens tomorrow
adds another to the metropolitan features of Wichita
Falls. Both the hotel management and the people of
Wichita Falls are to be congratulated.
Our natural gas service, too, has occupied a large place
in the growth of Wichita Falls. By means of it the
people have enjoyed comfort and convenience that are
without price. It has supplied heat at about half the
cost of any other fuel.
As this city has grown, so has this company progressed
—building more gas mains, adding features for the
service of its patrons and broadening its scope of opera-
tions to better facilitate the prompt and proper distri-
bution of its product. ----
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“A Partner With the Public'
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