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Show MM.M J.UK UAUUIT. A IVw Hurds From I'l'inire on ills Otialttics and hudden Uunufalt. KiiXiiuKa Millard (., A pill 0, 11U . To lbs Kdlton In tha DKfFKKT Kvknino Nkws rf Ma'di HI, lh!"l, we find au stud ou Ihe Jack rabbit, aid Isarn Irom 11 that lha government of Ihe Uul ted Htates ib trying, through Dr, T. L. 1'al-uirr, 1'al-uirr, tu fl d out something about Ills "olfltrlt uil m m d habits," aod also "l -brln together facts aud figures o jh-earning jh-earning Ihe arooomlo uea uf rabbit In general fur tha purpuia ot Indicating bow uur uallva votes may ba more gat orally un I ted." Tna larmera hereabouts ara well poled on Mr, Kilobit' habits,' and would viui hilially viy they ara bad, And If acythnnr, faVorablw la uliuov aid In toe latier propusitlun we would be giad lo know II, Why Dr. 1'aimerdnl uot get some Information from this cuniy when sei-kinw lu ormatinn ir im Uih, we do not know. 1'srhap ba went to Habbit valley, In Wayne county, and wasdls-appoiuied, wasdls-appoiuied, we are informed that that valley received Ita name frutn the late Hon. A. K. Thiirner, who as a pioneer mum! no other llv!n thing in that diB'no' but a s ilita y ) k raboit, Mi'iill.-u ikiuatiou. ralibit btiuls, In which from Ova hundred to two thou atid hava been killed near 1'arowan since 185, a far back as lh uijulry apptars tu have gone, A nbbli i.uui was bad tor a waiter m I) i .utiaiB a al e, betweai. Ktiiniureaud the nearby near-by t wn of 11 iideu, wli u M men I 5 uu each shit with ahul guia, klllad 2;." rabllta lu sevan hour. Mr. Jo. K Hiy, whJ was the leu'er of !ie Kihiuure guniiars, on tola and many other oci-aslona of ranbit iaugtittr, tells ma that this county alone should begivan tna total accrellled lu the whole of Uiah, and Cuuty Clerk T. . Calllster, who has paid many hundreus ui dollars In bounty f r reh-bil reh-bil eare, Ihiok It is light estimate. Wlih regsrd tu metnoJ of rabbit deMructlou, the little luwu of Hulden with a population uf, Iheu, lens thau 4od, have txfteudvd lare amuuuia oi money In lue purchase o: factory wiiicu with slakes plauisd In a V-HB V-HB ad chute or corral formed a wall rtinul' ii out on either side for ab ul ild yards; then women and oulld ri'u would coulinue to fur m the V wing a long a p sslhle whilst .men aud buys, ou hnre aud a uot, would scour toe country and drive tha rat-bit toward and Into the trap. At tha end uf the V wu an an closure about four feet high, made ol hurdles aud laoiory; hare waa where tha chief slaagtiiur wul ou, with clubs, until ineu were hiuody aud exhausted. ex-hausted. Hundred would h killed hi each sit line ut the corral, tut a many mora would get awa; women and children woul i couul th- scalp at I he close of the huut. ThaMi wur not hunt for fun, bul bread; it wss a quesiluu t t the "survie. al uf the tltivat;'' the children' breed I Wss at Slake, and ha beeu frequently lkn by lha Innocnnl lookup jack 1 run UU. Few people here ever Ihluk uf eating the peat ; tha slaughter ia dis I gusliuy; aud there hava heu fretjiiuol periods wbsn ulaeasa louk thsui oil by r Iboiiaan ls. Hruail spot -,f n rehllt.e hsture form .under Him kiti, w tUd grow uritil the rabnlt bM-ama pnflid -ut and pou Id scarcely lrvi and aeutually lav ilewn and die, In Mien numhers thtit the 'oPh iherelrcm tiimmn aim i tinbeatatde to mm working ! the i 11 bis. li it wa pit f..r Ih e- "I ovl-dentir.1 ovl-dentir.1 IhIiIiik oil" wa d-'h'i know ; w ho would claim the c lunty tna ay. W no not km w whM mir great an I pood I., (la Ham t g(l- g to do wliefj lie llt.da out all an. ut Mi. Hun ny, but If he I golt g 1 1 ilve a iKiiiuiy or a me ml for his cip!un,we MatTl our r'a'tn; t( he U f irie: to cudi mu us as ruihh-s : .n hteriTenf (t) Ihi oi en;, we me i-i'i ally guil'y. A. ItiHli, |
