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Show Col. Mulberry Was Nowhere. Butte Inter Mountain. Col. O. V. Davis, the genial proprietor proprie-tor of the Lakeside and Highland hotels at Hope, Idaho, is in the olty visiting his many friends. The colonel was seen this morning, and in response to Inquiries regarding the purposo of his Tlsltsald: . "I am on my way to Weber canyon upon a somewhat peculiar mission. You have heard of Colonel Sellers and his schemes. Well, I have one that the buoyant old fraud missed and I think it was the one of all others his imagination should have conjured up, as there are millions in it for sure. I am now engaged in shipping two car loads of wild animals to a reserve in New Hampshire where there are now two loads that have gone on before. These two loads consist of elk from Beaver canyon and moose from Winnipeg. Winni-peg. The elk are all young animals from one to two years of age and as Iromlsing a lot as were ever seen. The argest of these has antlers 68 Inches in length from the base and 54 inches between be-tween the tips, showing him to be a pretty good sized specimen, but the rest have not reached maturity as yet, and will doubtless develop some even better samples than the one I have mentioned. The moose herd I have at Winnipeg now is composed entirely of calves, but I have some full grown specimens elsewhere. One cow I have trained to drive in harness and she has made her mile in four minutes without a break. You just ought to see her go once. My plan is to keep these animals on the reserve and allow them to breed in order that the species may not become extinct. The same is true of the deer and antelope, and in fact all our wild animals but more especially of the buffalo. You know Buffalo Jones of Golden City, Kansas, conceived the idea some time since of capturing the only herd of buffalo in the country and holding them until their scarcity should run the price up to some fabulous sum ana men realize. The scheme was a good one and only failed bocause he did not secure the last herd. I can put my hand upon every herd of buffalo in this country today. There are forty-seven that are being horded in the Flathead country; the thirty-five that Jones holds down in Kansas, twelve at Bertha, Dakota, Da-kota, and the twenty-two that I own in New Hampshire, These are all the herds loft on the continent today out of the almost countless millions of a few years ago. I propose to make a collection of all the wild animals in this country liable lia-ble to extinction and place thorn upon my reserve for brooding purposes, but for the present this is only a secondary object. The great scheme is to take a number of representatives of all these ' families to the world's fair in '93. There I propose to arrange them in grounds within a large enclosure and place in the center a regular Indian village with several families of these aborigines. If there could be anything taken there that would be an attraction it appears to mo this should be. It would be a representation of America as it was in the early days that would be hard to beat, and I am confident everyone who visited the exposition wouid" want to see it. Possibly the scheme will fall through with me but I fancy not. I was thinking of bringing the elk and moose through by way of Butte and stop them off here for all to have a look, but find the ride will be too long. You can all see them, however, when you go to the World's fair." |