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Show A Jackra&hit Massacre in Idaho. The story of a jackrabbit tragedy that will prove of intense heart interest to certain of our able and progressive legislators comes from enlightened Idaho. The tale of the massacre is a most cruel onet . A.featureof darkest Australian life has just been reproduced 1n the country surrounding the town of Market Lake. A rabbit drive, equal in many respects to those which occur occasionally in the sheep,. districts of Australia, has just been ended, with results most gratifying to the participants and sheepherders of the district, whose sheep wjll not feed where the .rabbits have been. More than 300 persons were engaged in the drive. Three thousand rabbits and four coyotes were killed. For some months the district has beenUnfested by rabbits in enormous droves. They'have been the bane of the sheepherder, and it was decided to induce the townsmen towns-men to turn out for a gigantic hunt. A wire corral of semi-circular form and several hundred feet in length was constructed, and the 300. persons started out. over a stretch of country having a circumference circumfer-ence .of something like ? ioxty miles. Beating the bushes then hega'n, and -amid the barking of dogs, excited yellr of the men the rabbits were slowly driven to the center. The constantly narrowing circle prevented the rabbits' from escaping, with but few exceptions, and the day's sport ended with 3000 jackrabbits and four coyotes dying under the clubs of the huntsmen as they were driven into the corral While this description of the massacre will make some of our able statesmen who so bitterly scored the poor jackrabbit during the recent session of the Legislature, victims of remorse, another story comes from Idaho which will prove interesting. The Idaho dispatch on this point says: '-It is probable prob-able that another drive of equal proportions will be organized soon to cover some section of Utah, j where the jackrabbits are a pest" But there is another point connected with this : jackrabbit murder mystery which should be cleared. : Those four coyotes were in strange company. It might prove interesting to identify them. The case certainly calls for the production, of alibis. |