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Show CARE FOR MOUNTAIN SHEEP ' Solorndo Qnmo Lawn Hive This An Imiil Undr Their Special Protection. "tato G.Mno and Fish Commissioner Jhn Woadurd OoclnreH that the mountain moun-tain sheep of Colorado Is In tho nmo clnhs as the tacroil bull of Imlia. It must not ho touched, hta Woodnrd. If the nnlmal Is teen Irowslng upon the nioiintahirldc tho gun of tho hunter hunt-er must not bo pointed In Its ilhectlon. Tho animal, therefore, may ba called the "sacred sheep of Colorado." Thcro aro not many of them loft, but undor "ho protection of tho law (hoy ara Increasing In-creasing ovory yenr. Tlioro Is a band of them on the hills betweon Kloienco and Victor, and Mr. Woodnrd has n Photograph of n btinch grazing on a hlllsldo a Ehort distance from Florence. Dut for tho passngo of a law which heavily nncs thoso who kl!l this animal, ani-mal, tho Bpocles would havo been extinct ex-tinct long ago. A letter recclvol In Mr. Woortanl's ofilco recently tells of tho arrest and conviction of ono Fred Klrntr.sky for killing n mountain shoo?. IClttntzsky was llnod $303 and costs In i'ao county court at Canon City. Tho costs amounted to S140, nnd If tho accused man does not nottlo ho will havo a long term to servo hi tho county Jail. Denver Republican. |