| Show A Klondike Sheep Speculation From the Oregonian Jack Collin oho started fir Dawson City with a and t of sheep list summer has bfcii luarl from He sold part of his fade for SO 000 The other and biggest big-gest halt of the flock fed the birds of the Arctic zone This Is lion It hap pened 110 drove the sheep In over the Dalton Dal-ton fruit Some time hrCOIe Dnlson was reached cold weather como on and Collins decide to kill his sheep Ito lilllel nnd sold 300 and received nearly fo 000 for them Then he concluded to hold the remaInder for a better market mar-ket lIe killed the remnlllh 400 In n sort of secluded place off the line of travel and suspended the carcasses nn poles for enough above the ground to be out of the reach of bears wolves or other wild animals He left two oung men 10 watch the mutton not proceeded pro-ceeded In look for a mining section lInvlng found one he located n claim and proceeded l to lest It After he had dug out a few thousand dollars worth of gold he thought he would as the French ROy return to his muttons Ills stay had been I ra prolonged that the young men had become weary rf holding a wake over the cheep and Imagining I Dawson to tg 1 only Pn tie miles away hal started for that city tu enjoy some oC the pleasures II metro polltan city can afford It lOved tIt > t-It About 100 miles ti Daws on so their absence was more tendril than they had Intended and when Collins reach1 the place where he lad left the carcasses car-casses of 400 sheep he found only 400 bleaching skeletons The eagles ravens crows kites hawks and other bird of pre which Inhabit that region had been 1 feasting on motion Where the carcass 10 Ihee 1Ill the eagles be gathered Is n plover ahleh Applies to other birds 1 of prey Collins had left so many car castles that Invitations had hn Pent out and II general uundup of all the sotto es nail things In that region from Ilerlng sea to the Mackenzie river had taken place Whether the claim Collins secured will make good 1 the tors I of the mutton or nol r01ll031n tole seen but when he driveR In his next hand of sheep the birds of prey will not get RO large n percentage oC them |
