Show OLD IRONSIDES DEAD FAMOUS MOUNTAIN RAM AT LAST SLAIN BY A HUNTER seemed to bear a charmed life and was long impervious to bullets reward of offered for the horne horna spokane wash old ironsides for years the undisputed leader of a big band of mountain sheep in the tobacco root range east of spokane has gone the way ot of his forbears and as a result henry of silver star mont nature lover and sportsman has earned a reward ol of in addition to becoming the owner of a beautiful skin akin as a trophy of the wild trail the ram which was coal black and weighed pounds was known to every sportsman who ever invaded the range many at various times tried their luck and risked their lives in following the animal but it was of little or no purpose as old iton iron it tr on sides as the ram was dubbed by the pursuers seemed to bear a charmed life the animal was wary and few tan can say they caught it unawares or off guard sufficiently to obtain a shot and these were disappointed as the ram seemed to bo be able to shake oft off lead as a duck sheds water located the rams band near the head of hurlburt canyon during the christmas holidays and got close enough to ascertain tharold that tha tOld old ironsides was still master of the bunch he made a long detour to got get leeward of the sheep lest they become alarmed after several hours passed in scrambling over cliffs across gullies and through ravines he came within sight of the sheep the black ram was standing alone on a projection of a cliff with hla his head up as if scenting danger behind a screen of rock and scrub pine with the wind dead in his bis favor crept slowly up within easy range at the crack of the rifle the boblo animal arose in the air turned a complete somersault and landed on its back several feet below gave a few spasmodic kicks and died was obliged to return to civilization for a team and wagon with which to bring his bla trophy out ot of the mountains when weighed the ram tipped the scales at pounds the largest ram it Is believed ever killed kille d in the huntsmen huntsmon Hunts men in various parts of the northwest from time to time defeated in attempts to bag old ironsides offered a standing reward of for the birns and this has haa claimed I 1 |