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Show SHOOTING WILD HORSES. Noble Auliuals Slim ehterod Without Any JustLUc-atlon. A recent visitor to Nevada, according to the Northwest Magazine, says one of the strange sights he saw in Lincoln county was the cowboys killing kill-ing wild horses. "One morning," he said, "I saw five going forth well mounted and armed with tremendously ; big revolvers. I asked them where they were going. 'Oh. out to kill some horses,' they said. Well, they did kill1 them. They had a boy to change horses and ride round and round in a circuit miles in extent after them. As the wild horses would come around the cowboys would bang them over. I saw horse after horse great magnificent stallions of all colors- killed in this way. They would come around on the dead run. There would be a shot, or probablj' a fusillade of shots. The horse would take a leap into the air and come down dead. It looked ashametokill such magnificent brutes, but the cowboys cow-boys shot them down without the least compunction." There are thousands of these wild horses in Nevada, and about the only excuse given for shooting them is that the stallions entice away the domestic mares, which then become as wild as the other horses. ..... . |