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Show MUCH LIVESTOCK IS STARVED TO DEATH POCATELLO, Idaho, March 14. A long winter and deep snow are reported to be proving very disastrous to stoekgrowers in the southern part of Bannock county and in Rear Lake county. It is said that several hundred head of stncii have starved and perished from . the cold, and that in some sections, due to the shortage of hay; which has been "V selling at from $20 to $22 per ton, large TVn umbers of trees have been felled in er to allow cattle to subsist on the and small limbs. If the present cold we.if.her continues for another week it is fc. ired .that the losses will be larger than ever before known, as in many sections sec-tions remote from the railroad It is practically impossible to make deliveries of hay in time to relieve the situation. |