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- pron tas - + & ‘u 2% ack 10 gprag‘W-lglatesMbst ’ _- Thrilling 'Cat Hunt IN WHICH HH AND Prank BEAY. MONT SLBW ALL or pie WILD CATS In LIBERIY MOUNTAIN CaAYE Kequires. Man With Grcent Courage Ko N glkllim A Pon of Howling, iSnarlingy . thilsty, Wild, Oats, £09 This 18 not the bloodless bunting yarn I hroatenéed to write _ a short time Ago, but rather tells ul about the r{oistest, .. most. exciting, e most dangerous hunt I ever under- iw, took in my long hunting experience, C and conforms more to the type of | story with which our forefathers re- galed their children in the long win- over, every word of it is true. About forty-five years ago Frank Beaumont 'and the writer know of a C_. lodge of rocks, honey-combsd with \_._ caves, that was lousy with wildeats - ”fig and panthers, 'This ledge was over < *. .nour where the Looimnis Sanatorium o 0C (now stands, two miles west of Liber-, {oce 0 near Elk Point, so named for te ® tho Dumber of elk that inhab- bui co o Ited the romlon, which is still one of «ir . Wido. forests, vhaching, almost un- - R tor gveonings about New Year's tine oy\ ityolving deeds of daring and acty of valor that are hardly duplicated in ® this progaic ago. This is that kind fl“; of a story-a wildeat story. (More- 'a ua - beoken, |_ westward . from Liberty 89s through Higybt (Dabhlis) and- north of i,. a* ~. White Sulphur Springs, 'Youngevilie, | ... Jeffersonville and so on \ * ara rivor. 4a _. ¢: . #0 * ied ve 9 ARe to the, Delf- - panthers and bears. -. Foy many years, both before and obart, gt11 Hving near Elk Point, d. Blmex Hyzor, who disd a few 4 ngfiwnunlly killed dozens of \ bobscit# ®H@-panthors in the l6dges , ingntlonkd and ~ particularly _ it . a - largo cavo that had many small caves C lwo Meading from it. oal .* tho day bofore we wont on this\ slaughtoring expedition, we [hy y $8 Talked the matter over , and. mado . \ to got the cats. Our younger with some of their Iid sat around us, with gaping * Amoufhy and wide oyes,; and listened «_ 1d our plans with baited breath, on- '« , JoyIng our evident heroism: and thor- . Ough knowledgo of woodcraft and -~ * espoctlally wildeateraft, | Their wor- . ~,¢ ship of our hardihood was almost « pitifol, but It tickled our vanity to iAtutch'nn extent that when we started out noxt day wo were cock-sure wo eguld lick our weight in wildeats , &nd panthers,. . R . \We took no dog along, because no dog that we aver heard of was worth ago a hill of beans in wildeat hunting. We Sa . went diract to tho large cave men- ha ih 0 tiongd where wildeats and panthers ye © vfar‘éz- Known to have innumerable To' ~~ «denk in the small branching caves. a I Tho ontrance to the large cave was Sos « ~only of sulllclent size to admit of the ols passage of a Iirgo bear, while inside aw tall man could stand erect with ao. + feat of headroom to spare. \We lind approached. to within. two loos Cc. _> hundred feet of the cave when 'we ~ Affe cooked our cary, and incldontally our \_) _- guns, because wo could hear unmilg- | b talablo wildeat crfes Issuing from e tho mouth of the cavern. But we ut C s kept on: toward the cave. 'Nah, not . a bit afraid! And the nearer we ap- ' progohod the plainer wo could hear boules the varmints, evidently having some ] -~ kind of a fanilly row over something. Saas We had not then arrived at the youg of discrotion-(a fellow. does not tsuAlly become a coward until he R . ough to not get too close to a passel (C of snarling, yowling. wRd oats. So ench of us was sager to mat get ahead of the other-but wa marched in double file right up to the mouth of the cave-or, say, with- in a hundred foot of it. - . 'Our original plan of attack called for a frontal bombardment of the cavg from a not too close range, but singe the real dons opened out . from either side of the interior we o BAW we could hit nothing except the \oz - Kear wall of the cave. Then we de- ~ ofdod, after a councll of war to smoke [tho wholo lot of cats out-that 1s, Benumont favored a course . of i \*~ Awotchful waiting,\ while I leaned . moro to having him go up and build '# < At dongo amoke-fire right in the on- *¢ | trance, while I stood back'and kept < my gun trained so no cats could es- capo, 'This plan would have been Be O., oxcept that Beaumont thought L-could build a bigger smoke than & could, while ho could stand guard as good as I could. by blunt about this. Yes, we word afraid to go within five rods of that cave. \Laugh clown, laugh!\ But say, follow me lad, would you ' havo goud in the mouth of that cave 'and bult a fire, Woll, then, don't augh thead of your turn. There are 'not 86. many Daniels who have gone ''\Into Hons «deng, and not even one \who has beardad a dozon wildeats in *~thele dom,) |_ | _ . . . Tho Kilkenmy Kittens were not a ~~. marker fo the wildgats and panthers In that cfive when it came to yowl- Aug and spliting and/fighting in the mosh blaod-curdling,manner a body /s @ver forrd, At that, Lam gure Boau- ~~ mont would. noonmfifneabuut the fire, blthflbuflhigk critical. moment of un- . dank wb, John Hobart »rc0d 13535. Arough 'the waods with two XRS e 1A MQ ' -* mugo bob-cats alurnig over his should- s or. Ho had shot them over in Bik Point ledges. He heard the murder- ous , 'wildeat\ fight 'going on: in the .~ gave and agkeds =. /_ R hos : \Whatoin blazes is going on in i there, anyhow?\ > > . 0 «Ogn't you hear?\ we asks in ang- ou ooo tor to his question, \it's a wildcat iy. << ~. Aight,\ h - x ~~~ ~ \Wildent fight, me ayo,\ says John: ' » </) and Spith that ho lays. his gun and | . duty og the ground, and, \belleve it jor. goos Slam bang into that | aaya. than brave. - P a asp soramt'\ yells John as goon woll within the den. \And tdo, If tight out of that it serdrible the ten boys | . &y had! Bo pop- '%, min, i Two of those igurgzoysax‘e, still living at the ago of sixty years, panoxe, which means and from that day to this neither one aylight\ - Hels a former chicf: ''Walks by Daylight\ knew when he revealed, the secrets, according to | C | Dr. Speck, that he will be banished \ op sp eg | from his tribe and may: even GRAHAMSWLLE < ~*, \| danger of bodily harm, ; \C 0 *- , The book traces the: source and. de- velopment of the Delaware 'tribe's rites back through 'history as hand- ed down by legend from generation to generation to the- present. de- scendants of the Indians 'who lived: along the Atlantic seaboard,\ Two hundred years afo\ the 'Delawares began their tragic migration from what is now the Valley of the Dela~ Mrs. Hugenes Curry are spending! some time on. Thunder Hill, at the home of Arclife Ackerley: ' young son, of Woodridge, recently vigited Mrs. Mary J. Porter... -_ Chamberlin spent Friday on South lil, the guests of Mr. and Mrs., Hor- ace Devine,. a § : ing of the Dutch Reformed Church Society were: Mrs. Laura + Walter, President; Mrs. G. W. Turner, first vice pregident; . Mrs. Georgo Smith, now settled in the Baptist parsonage This whole region, wag | thon. thickly inhabited. by wilddats,\] a ffer\ the time of this story, John | | Montela, to sew for needy, ones at dafinite plans as to how wo were | tor, Mrs; Edgar Williams near New: | Chauncey Dayton, a recent bride, and, tain 'the -all day meeting of the local reachog that ago) -but we know on- |- fire-spitting | ~Alve acres of land be the same more or less, with the privilege to draw water from tha} - 'Spring now on the 95 acre lot, the second, party or his assigns to pay the sum of $10. 'gage being. gyien to GUSTA Y. BARRON, RICE & ROCKMORE, of them has been able to sit down D with any degrea of-comfort. | F. M., SPRAGUE, Grahamsvilio, - Jan. 12%-Mr. and | Mr. and Mrs, Bon Terwilliger and Mrs. Marite Briggs and Mrs. F. v Officers elected at the annual meet- second vice-president; Mrs. Bert Erath of Unionville, treasurer, and | Mry. Isac. Aldrich, secretary. ‘ Everitt Adrian of Sundown comes over from work in Poughkeepsie to spend the week-end with his family. | Marion Doughty of Napanoch-vis- ited her cousins, Betty and Shirly Doughty last week.. =~ >. | Rev. and Mrs. Henry Alfks . are |. gind Rev. Alfks has begun this work as pastor of the Low's Cotner's Bap- 'tst church on Sunday mornings; and | , wt: Loch Sheldrake in' the afternoons., .- Noland Barkley has been elected a\ trustes - 6f: the - yviliago Methodist Church for a term of three years, George Moore for a merlod of twoll year. , Su le ny ' The Good Seed Society, of: R. church, have: donated $25 toward. Soclety will meet flext Friday after- noon at Mrs.. Ward Dierfelter's near their station in the South. ~~ Csd «Alfred Curry is visiting his daugh- 7 burgh.\ cello, although he and his wife still retain their apartment in'thg‘ vil- lage, - . Cs. nny Mr., and Mrs. John Knight, of Un- . Mr. and Mrs, George B. Reynolds and Miss Addie Reynolds dined with Mrs. James Smith at Sunday, the Aid Society of the Dutch Reform» ed Church last Thursday were: Mrs. Dick Birch, of Low's Corners; Mrs. Mrs. Oscar Doughty, Mrs, Melvin. Turbush Will \enter. W,. C. T. U. on the twentieth, A busi- ness meeting will beheld at 2.30 in the afternoon. eC Mr. and Mrs, Otis Donaldson gave a dinner party last Friday evening. Their guests were: | Mr.. and. - Mrs. Plerce Gillettee, 'of Woodbourne; Koad, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Goldsmith, of Ellenville and Mr. and Mrs, Orson . Furman. STATE OF.NEW YORK, - ~ - SUPREME COURI-County of Sullivan. Catherine Rampe,, Louls Kinzinger and Lawrence Hoernlelh, ols : ! Plaintiffs, © -against, < ° Henry Kunis, Sarah Kunis, his wife, Oak- Jand House Co., Inc., Isadore Glickman and Abraham E. Koopersmith as Trust- ses of the Creditors of Oakland House Co.. Inc., Gustav Goodmann and Annie R. Morris as executors under the Last Will And - Testanient of Ely Fsenbers, _ de- ceased, Sellk Kaplan, Tullus J. Kntuder, © Defendants, In pursuance of a judgment of foréclos- ure and sale, made and .enfered in the above entitled action, bearing date the 7th any of January, 1932, and entered in the Sullivan County Clerk's Office, I, the under- sifnecl.xreferee in sald Judgment named, will soll at public Auction at the front door of the United States Post Office at South Fallsburgh, Sullivan Couny, New York, on the : - ; . HTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1933 at cleven o'clock in the forencon of that X the renown? described grammes: j LL THAT TRACT OR ARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Fallsburgh, County of Sullivan and State of New York, bounded and. described as follows :-Har- denbutrgh Patent, | Great Lot No. Two Division One whole of Lot No. Four Third Range, containing. ninety-five (95) acres be said Jot. lying tho »same more 'or less, South of the ; the \Lasher Lot\ and bounded as follows: On. the North by the middle of :the old Ui- stor and Orange: Branch Turnpike as [traveled in 1828, on the West by Lot No. Three in said range, on the South by Lof No, Four in the second range and on the Being (the same Henry Kunis and Samuel Thomas b remises conveyed to braham. Scherman biy deed. dated. Oct. 21, 1007, ond recorded | in | Sullivan\ County Clerk's office In Liber of deeds No. 152, at pa 278. il - ELSO ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Falis- burgh,, County of Sullivan and , State of New York, being & part of lands described in a deed from Udel Penskl to Rachel Pen- ski dated Jan. 26th, 1914 recorded in Liber 176 of deeds on page 144 bounded and de- scribed as follows:-Beginning at a stake at'the Southeast corner of lands of Jacob. Brickman and running South 10 feet to stake; - thence West to middle of the brook; thence North 10 feet to a stake: thence East along the said lins of Jacob, Brickman to the place of beginning, a half acro of land more or less. B the same premises conveyed to Honry Kunis by Rachael Penskl by deed dated July 14th, 1919 and recorded In said Clerics office in liber of deeds No. 197, at page 362, Excepting and reserving from: the first parcel herein described as- containing 95 acres the following described plece or par- cel of Intuit—Beginning at. the center of the Fallsburgh-Liberty \highway on the Easterly line of Brickman, running thence South 66 degrees 30 minutes East 498 feet to the center of the road leading to South Fallaburgh; _ thence Southerly along the center of said road 413 feet to n point op- |. posite & thorn angle tree; thence North 56 degrees 30 minutes West to Brickman's line;. thence Northerly along Brickman's line to the 'place of beginning, containing per annum toward the expense of 0 tating the engine at such spring. Being the samé vremises this day conveyed to first. party y party of the second part and this mort- secure part of the pur- chzlzsset 13“ny therei’tglr.1932 ated, January 7, . © RAYMOND G. COX, Referee, Fram Atmel\ ' al s'. Attornoy, Elienville, New York, LV GOODMANN, EHsq., Attorney for Gustav Goodmann and Annle R. Morris as executors under the Last Will and Testament of Ely Rosenberg, . deceased, ' © $77 Broadway,. New York. N,. goo plans thy Jd~ AtLOL meager defendant, Julius J, Kauder, St» New York, N. Y. fro the D. | ~ Mrs, Chauncey Dayton has had her we | sister and her cousin as her guests. | -* 2 A 'A. F. Warner has work if Monti- e ~ donvilie, are reported better alffer |- | suffering from severe sore throats. ° Among the new members joining |- highway and being known as-|/ Host by lof No. Five in the third range. |- . is??? * ECRETS OF DELAWARE INDIAN BIG HOUSE EXPOSED . 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