Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-11-22 | Page 8 | Trapper Appears to Collect Bounty on Tarpaulin Full of Coyote Pelts

Trapper App Appears to Collect Bounty on Tarpaulin Full of Coyote Pelts I With Hit two forty coyote pelts wrapped In us a n big tarpaulin Samuel Wells appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap at nt the tho count county counts cloths clerks office yesterday yesterday yes yes- to collect bounty for tor the thc de- de or of the animals Ho IIo dra dragged ged the pelts Into the oC office co and anti they wets j scattered over tho the floor while hUe Clerk and deputies made the tho In Inspection Itt Itt- required by law Of or tho fort forty forty- two skins 9 there thoro wore el eighteen from frons which the hones bones of the foot feet hail had been removed Xo No bounty could bo be paid on these Wells cBs who I is a trapper of Jon long ex experience ex- ex pelle also alco conducts canh and fruit trull stand at South Soot It T. and second West est streets Six Ic or seven pI n weeks ago he went to the Iho vicinity of Garn and andset sot set traps tr for coyotes cootes The first el eighteen eight eight- ht- ht eon een he Iw wore west wust of or Garfield and therefore In count county When hen henh h ho he skinned the animals he r removed the thi feet cot not being familiar with the newstate now new state bount bounty law Jaw Ho was surprised when ho was 38 told b by th the clerk clerIc that ho had hail to make mak affidavit affi davit that all tho tIme coyotes were war hin h bagged c in Salt Lake Iak count county While hUe thoro there was somo some doubt in his mind us IlS to the exact ext location of or his traps h h h. was practicallY I c certain that all fore from this side of or the line If HP lie received l r 0 O for tor his ex exI exhibit ex- ex hibit after atter Clerk Eldredge played pl surgeon sur sur- I geon gems and anil amputated the tho right forefeet