Show p OLD I ONSIDES DEAD FAMOUS MOUNTAIN RAM AT LAST SLAIN BY A HUNTER a Seemed to Bear a Charmed Life and Was Long Impervious to Bullets Bul-lets Reward of 150 Offered for the Horns Spokane Wash Old Ironsides for years the undisputed leader of a big band of mountain sheep in tho Tobacco To-bacco Root range east of Spokane has gone the way of his forbears an las l-as a result Henry Tidball of Sliver Star Mont nature lover and sportsman sports-man has earned a reward of 150 In addition to becoming the owner of a beautiful skin as a trophy of the wild trail The ram which was coal black and weighed 302 pounds was known to every sportsman who ever Invaded the range Many at various times tried their luck and risked their lives in following tho animal but it was of little or no purpose as Old Ironsides Iron-sides as the lam was dubbed by the pursuers seemed to bear a cbarraed life The animal was wary and few can say they caught It unawares or off guard sufficiently to obtain a shot and these were disappointed as the ram seemed to be able to shako off lead as a duck sheds water Tidball located the rams band near the head of Hurlburt canyon during the Christmas holidays and got close enough to ascertain that Old Ironsides Iron-sides was sflll master of the bunch He made a long detour to get ledward of the sheep lest they become alarmed After several hours passed in scrambling over cliffs across gullies l gul-lies and through ravines he came within with-in sight of tho sheep The black ram was standing alone pn n projection of a cliff with his I head up as If scenting danger Tid ball behind a screen of rock and scrub pine with the wind1 dead in his favor crept slowly up within easy range At the crack of the rifle tho noble animal arose In the air turned a complete somersault and lauded on Jts back several feet below gavo a few spasmodic kicks and died Tidball was obliged to return to civilization for a team and wagon with which to bring his trophy out of the mountains When weighed the ram tipped the scales at 302 pounds the largest ram it Is believed ever killed Iq the Rockies Huntsmen in various parts of the northwest from time to time defeated In attempts to bag Old Ironsides offered of-fered a standing reward of 160 for tho horns and this Tidball has claimed t |