Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1911 — NOW HUNTING WILD CATTLE [ARTICLE]

NOW HUNTING WILD CATTLE

Descendants of Stock Taken to Washington by Sqotch Colony In 1840 Now Prey of Hunters. .

Seattle, Wash.—Although the state of Washington has its “No Trespass” sign tacked on the herds of elk in the Olympic mountains, and the open season for deer here lasts but three months each year, guides are returning from the wild regions with larger game -wild- cattle, unprotected by law. Grant W. Humes has Just brought in

the shaggy hide~and long horns Of a wild bull he killed in the plateau region at the headwater of the Dusewalllps river. Humes, who has lived in the Olympics for 15 years, says a herd of several hundred wild cattle is at large near the source of the Dusewallips. Other herds, Humes says, feed on thousands of acres of wild hay in the plateau regions bordering the Queets and Hoh rivers. Two other guides confirm the story. Indian legend says the stock was brought to this country by a colony of Scotch settlers who landed from a sailing vessel in the early forties. The colony did not thrive, and its members returned to civilisation. \ Guide:, say the wild cattle and horses are more timid than deer, and more difficult to hunt. With a scent as keen as that of the elk, the wild herds flee to the almost inaccessible hiding places tn the hills when alarmed by the approach of man.