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Show FEDERAL RAIDS ON COYOTES EFFECTIVE -Special to The Tribune, PLU..SANT GROVE. Sept 22 George E. Holnian of this city, m charge of the I lined Stales biological survev, and who has charge of the destruction of predatory animals, iu an interview savs that sinte the government started its war on covotcs Inst fall his men have killed more "than ;;.i'iri of them in Utah alone. He now has forty men emnloved, ehief-ly ehief-ly on the western desert, and last month r thry captured over tiihi. One man In Millard eountv got slxty- one coyotes iu twenty-seven davs. Urban Johnson, in Cedar valtcv has thirty-one t his credit Tor August'. In the past three weeks A. J. ll'nrmon and W.-R. Ilolman have killed twenty-three twenty-three in the lulls above Pleasant Grove, Mis work would he mure successful were it not for outsiders stealing the tils which have been set for the coyotes. iMiring tiie past month the government has killed four hi- nmy wolves. One of the wolves in the Uinta basin had killed seen head of cattle three or four davs i before bohig caught, and the cattiomen had a standing offer of Jioii ror jts c;lp-ture. |