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“The big buffalo hunt we once planned to take place on the Pablo ranch in Montana, may yet come off," said Howard Douglas commissioner of parks, to the Edmonton Capital. "There is quite a possibility that we may yet be able to go ahead with the hunt. The buffalo are at this time of the year in their prime and the hides and heads will be twenty-five per cent more valuable than they were a month or two ago.”
Mr. Douglas stated that Pablo had been advised by his lawyers to go ahead with the hunt, in spite of the objections raised by the state game Wardens of Montana. Consequently Pablo last week started out on a little hunt of his own, defying the game wardens, and by this time has probably shot a couple of old bulls that are resisting capture by his cowboys. If Pablo succeeds in killing the buffalo without resistance or without objection from the game wardens, he will inform Mr. Douglas that the coast is clear at last, and Mr. Douglas will proceed to re-organize the buffalo hunt.
It is not likely that the state authorities or the U. S. Federal authorities will carry the case against Pablo further. The real foundation of the difficulty in the first place, is believed to be a feeling of jealousy that was roused over the fact that Pablo had sold his buffalo to the Canadian government.