Show STAGE RABBIT HUNT tile the big rabbit shoot which should have been staged on tuesday was a failure because ot of a hitch that occurred in the transportation program As a consequence tile the salt lake and ogden sportsmen did not arrive in this city and no hunters from this section made the trip on the other end of the line the ranchers were preparing to take care of the big company of 0 sportsmen who were awaited the women spent practically the entire night preparing a big luncheon for at least one hundred men and on tuesday morning the clans began to gather at the east promontory school house to await the coming ot of the expert huntsmen huntsmon hunts men ranchers with their wives and children traveled tor for thirty miles in some cases to participate in the big event tor for the good giorl tolk folk ot of the promontory district were determined to make tile the hunt a 1 pleasant one i if their attention to the sportsmen could add anything any hing but when the train came along and the word was given out that the hunt bunt had been cancelled the ranchers were disappointed though not discouraged and they they set about to have a drive all ot of their own one hundred men on oil horses ranged over the hills in a great semicircle semi circle and drove thousands ot of rabbits down to the big corral which had been erected on the plain and where the women and children had formed themselves into a long line stretching away from the tunnel funnel entrance to the great corral and the frightened aini kalnmals nals went pell mell into the enclosure where they were later dispatched to the happy hunting grounds thousands of 0 rabbits were killed in the drive and then the entire populace gathered at the school house ate the lunch and then proceeded to jollity in a right vigorous mariner manner the day was a huge success despite the absence of the sportsmen who naro bunted t u on ta la slay afew a few thousands ot of the pests bests and perhaps the drive resulted in the killing ot of more rabbits than would have been accomplished by the shot and shell ot of the expert gunmen |