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Show BOUNTY IS WITHDRAWN. State Has This Year Paid Small Fortune to Slayers of Jack Rabbits. Special to Tho Tribune. rmiOTlA.M CITY. April 22. The county commissioners, .-u i)ei,. meeting this week, decided to withdraw the bounty on Jock rabbits, which at prosent s f cents for each rabbit killed. This was mado necessary on account of the numerous demand!; de-mand!; on the bounty funds. ?.lore tban 521.000 has been paid In bounty on rabbits rab-bits alone the past ynr, and ap the slate pays half the bounty, the Mate trensuror notified this county some weeks aso that Hie state could no longer keep up Ihe heavy bounty. Bounty has been paid on 120.000 Jack rabbits, which means that thore ha been klHed In this county during the veai-nearly veai-nearly half a million of these pentB. and the absence of u half million rabbits will be nollcod by the farmers at harvest time. |