| Show OLD DEAD FAMOUS MOUNTAIN RAM AT LAST SLAIN BY A HUNTER seemed to bear a charmed life and was wa long impervious to bullets reward of offered for the tha horne home spokane wash old ironsides for years yeara the undisputed leader of a big baad of mountain sheep cheep in the to bacco root range east of spokane has gone the way of his forbears and aad as a result henry of 0 silver star mont nature lover and sports man has earned a reward of in addition to becoming the owner of a beautiful skin as a trophy of the wild trail the ram which was coal black and weighed pounds was known to every sportsman who nho ever invaded the range many at vatious various times tried their luck and risked their lives in following the animal but it was of little or no purpose pui pose as old iro iron 11 sides as the ram was dubbed by ohp pursuers seemed to bear a charmed b armed life the animal was vaa wary and fe few can say bay they caught it unawares or off if guard sufficiently to obtain a shot and these were disappointed as the ram rain seemed to be able to shake oil off lead as a duck sheds water located the ram a baud the head of canyon during tha christmas ho holidays lidas and got close enough to ascertain that old iro iron n sides was as still master of the bunch ile he made a long detour to get leeward of the sheep test lest they become alarmed after several hours passed in scrambling over cliffs across gut gul lies and through ravines lie be camo came with mith in ili sight of the sheep ahe black ram was aas standing alono alone on projection of a cliff with his head up as it if scenting dangel tid ball behind a bercen of rock and scrub pine with the wind dead tn in hla his favor crept up within easy range at the crack of the rifle the tha roble animal arose in the air tinned a complete somersault and aad landed on its back several feet below belo gave gaie a few spasmodic kicks and died was obliged to return tr to civilization tor for a team and wagon with which to bring hla his trophy out of the tha mountains when weighed the ram tipped the scales at pounds the largest ran ram it la Is believed ever ched in III the brockles en in various parts of the tha northwest arc n time to time defeated in attempts to old OILI ironsides of terea ferea a standing reward of for the horns horna and this has claimed |
