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Show BEASTS OF PREY. It is a surprise to read that while the native fish and game birds are being rapidly killed .off in Utah, the mountain lions and .coyotes are4 in-' creasing. How many gentlemen started coyote stock farms after the bounty excitement a year ago? And what kind of hunters are there in Utah that they permit mountain lions to increase? It is "said that the man-eating tigers in India kill lSjOOO people annually. Is Utah to become famoug I in the same way with her mountain lions? It seems that lions out on the range are almost' as safe as hold-ups in Salt Lake and Ogden, and that defenseless domestic animals are no safer outside than peaceable citizens are in town. The wolves outside and in town ought to be killed off, and the thought should be that the outside wolves are not half as much to be censured as those in town. Hold-ups are public enemies and a reward should be paid to any man who presents the scalp of one of them to the county clerk. |