The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1901, Page 3

fur business for thirty years or more and has devoted special pains and con- who siderable sums of largest known W ¥ Sheard a money to securing the beads. His name is he is the possessor of and sportemen of animals before markably graceful onme. The horns are pajg no attention to ‘he story, setting It mounting them, 8o as to secure a wider seventy inches long and their spread i gown as one of the fables that all tribes spread of the Lorns, Sheard has left this sixty-eight inches. head unmounted. among taxidermists eplitting the skulls THE SUNDAY CALL. LARGEST GRIZZLY BEAR HIDE ON RECORD. FRoM TP OR NOSE TO TIPOF TAIL 1t FEeT 2% INcHES .- TARGEST Rock MOUNTAIN SHEEP HEAD IN THE \WoRLD. CIReOMFERENCE. © = RSN AT BAcE 18 INeHES S22k LonG VALUE #1500 X trict. When the hunter tried to get some Indians to help him carry the carcass in the superstitious men absolutely refused to accompany him and for a long time the tribe would not forget wkat was consid ered a sacrileglous act. At last some white men went out from Fort Selkirk and the carcass was brought in. Next year the head was sent down the Yukon River to Tacoma and was sold to Sheakd, who is known to be always ready to pur- chase record game heads. The mountain sheep was killed by an o0ld hunter named “Scotty” Macdougall in the Selkirks of Britist Columbia after a long‘and arduous stalk. Macdougall sald that he followed the sheep from one range to another over a distance of several hun- dred miles and found him the craftiest old ram he ever tried to capture. Though t-led many long shots at him he never succeeded In hitting him. At last, after stalking him for weeks, he left his coat and cap on a wooden cross and, making a long circuit with the ‘wind fn his favor, he canfe up within seventy-five yards of the animal, who was still watching the scarecrow Intently. For a while the old hunter was too nervous to shoot, but at last he fired and wounded the ram fatally. LENGTH OF HORNS 214 INcngS CIRCUMFEREMNCE OF HoRMS AT BASE 154 INCHES, SPREAD A5 INCHES .- ' VALUE %1000 has horns which are 52 inches long, with a curcumference of 18% Inches, and is valued at $1600. The record cariboo head has horns 54%% tnches long, with a spread of 51% Inches and forty prongs. I have not at hand the dimensions of the grizzly bear hide shown in the pho- tograph, but the comparatively small size of the figure of the man standing in front of it shows what an enormous creature its living owner must have been. All the above mentioned trophies have been on constant exhibition in Shear show room and were measured hefore being mounted by hundreds of sportsmen and others. The measurements were most carefully made with steel tapes by many persons and are absolutely exact; the rec- ords have all been published in Rowland Ward's “Records of Big Game,” whicn is published in London and Is the accept ed authority among sportsmen. The moose head has a curifous story con- nected with it. For 'several years the In- dians around Fort Selkirk and the mouth of the Stewart River in the Northwest Territories of Canada frequently told the traders about a huge moose that they 12. PRONGS 68 INCHES had often seen but.had not been able to FRor TIFE TS Tim.. kill, In course of time a superstitious VALLE H500-.. feeling of reverence for the mysterious beast which escaped unhurt from all their attacks came over the Indians, who de- clared it to be the rcincarnated spirit of The largest elk head on record Is a re- gome great warrior. The traders, however, of Indians tell. But in October, 1897, a The record Rocky Mountain sheep head ¥rench halfbreed came into the post and CARIBOO HEAD ™ S2% INCH SPREAD stated that he had pursued the moose for After killing him, however, he felt a su- four days and had killed it near the head- perstitious fear of selling the head and waters of the Stewart River, two or three determined never to part with it except hundred miles from Dawson ' City, the on the compulsion of absolute want. Four chief town of the Klondike River dis- years later “Scotty” was killed in a snow- #lide and Me partner sold the head Sheard, for whom it had origtnally been killed In addition to the record specimens de- scribed above W. F. Sheard possesses an extremely valuable collection of furs and of Arctic Indlan beskets, weapons, etc. In his big show room there are no fewer than two thousand sable skins and count- less other valuable furs. The six black fox skins in the foreground of the pic- ture are valued at $3000. A single rare fox- skin at the March sales In London fetche:d 33500 and at the recent sale n Oecto two skins were sold for the sam sum, According to an Ingenious s been at work on the s on of K ber of murde is likely to be commit in which animals are ity. of every million inhabitants, he there are In England and Ireland six murderers; In G 1; in in France, 16; o7 ain 83, what might be expected. he says, are animals treat: kindness than In Great Britain, and with more cruelty than in Italy, and the treas- ment accorded to them in the other coun- tries may fairly be gauged according to the number of murders committed In each.