Show VANISHED HERDS Antelope Buffalo Bt falo and Sheep of Old New Orleans The oThe practical extinction of ot big game in the west we said auld a visitor front from Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas City last evening has been a a case of ot the swiftest t and andi most mOt ruthless butchery la in the h hI history of the th wo world Id IdI L ti I am 45 years old ol Thirty years cars eara ap aDo go c when I was a lad of ot 15 lo I accompanied d California over Oer my father on a trip to the then comparatively new Union Pa Pacific Paci ic ci G railroad I have trotted the globe pretty thoroughly since i but I trade the memories of ot that trip for brain con contains any souvenir of travel my It was a wonderful ble bler experience and an J recalled r ed nowadays ys seems next to incredible On the plains f t s ot Rf Nebraska N our train was twice twi e stop stopp p ped d by b enormous herds of dt antelopes crossing the track Just think of at it The vast pack of living Hying creatures creature ex extended e x i i tended as far as the eye could reach j jand and streamed by like a tremendous T river No engine could have plowed its 3 way nay through such a tide and we slim sim simply sl ply stood still and waited You look 1 f Incredulous tn an and 3 I dont blame you sou but r rEven what I am m telling is the absolute truth t th Ever Even EvenI among the passengers the th bar barbarous barbarous barous barons spirit of wanton slaughter was i t rife and I remember one fellow who deliberate deliberately S emptied a revolver into i r mot the helpless ss Jam of graceful struggling straggling i r L animals 0 several other occasions s swe Ut raH that we saw sa herds of ot buffalo y covered the whole horizon The Tha near nearest e est eat tt were tere we e only a few ew hundred yards yarns t R been Ra away and there must have a countless thousands In the pack pac Pass Passing Passing ing in through a a canyon in northern Colo Col Colorado a rado rod go we carne came suddenly in view of ot a herd of o sheep or at least least that ram ran GO so near to the cars tha thaI I could have to a no biscuit among them from the window and in both the th R and d Sierras we several times saw bear from the platform Today the buffalo is 19 extinct andi and the the other big game earn can only be bl found round by skillful i and patient hunting g It is a g to 1 s f r reflect that such a work of d rl Jion ion i should have occurred io jn let leas le than one I 3 generation g 1 |