| Show old three toes Is killed K idled off at last old three toes la Is dead of a wicked ruthless D DENVER fearless disposition last of her race in the country north of thatcher destroyer of ca calves ives and lambs wary elusive shy of tr traps aps she was finally caught in a special trap by ROY iroy spangler federal hunter with her death culminates one of the most peculiar of romances romance a of wild in which she was the life a romance of a collie dog and he ultimately the father of a brood 0 of f curl oils halt half wolves halt half dogs for a number of years the fight in the count country north of thatcher has been gol going ngon on tile the butler pasture as tile the country Is known Is a large stock block from thirty grazing area extending miles east of trinidad almost to pueblo here the federal hunters co operating with the colorado state board 0 of f stock inspection worked on the jot job of eradicating the wolves finally one wolf was left old three toes in the days before she became so BO notorious she had had bad on one e tussle with a trap sas won it at tt the e cost of three of her toes alone yet deadly in her work darting from end to end of 90 the territory she became known as old three toe she could not mate with her kind so she chope a collie dog the property of monroe monroa bros henderson Ho ranchers on the Apis bapa river eleven miles from thatcher as her mate the I 1 dogs owners penned him up old three toes dug the collie out of tho the pen ile he listening to the tha call of the wild took to the hills to become the sire biro of five whelps the ranch knew him no more not long after old three toes roes fell a victim to the the trap the collie dog was poisoned t one of the five pups was waa killed and one other plainly the collie strain Is in tile the possession of B E J forman secretary of the Sout southern bern Colorado Stock growers association at trinidad no tears were shed she dover over three toes by the very savagery of her raids on cattle she lost what attle regard she might have bave won by her long untiring light fight with her huntera |
