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Show DEADLY MOUNTAIN CUE VICES. In some of the high plateaus or mesas of the Rocky mountains, says a writer in the Wide World magazine, maga-zine, there are to be found, a short distance from the edge, cracks or fissures fis-sures not more than four feet wide and often as much as SO feet deep. During the terrible blizzards that rage in the winter these crevices are filled to the level, and cattle and horses which are not acquainted with the country frequently drop into them, their struggles only causing them to sink deeper and deeper. The cracks into which the sun never penetrates, are life refrigerators, refrigera-tors, and the hapless brutes, when death has come to their relief, simply dry' up and become, to all intents and purposes, mummies. |