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Show Killing Counars Saves Deer. 1 It la mtlmated that every cougar In tho stifte cauces the death of at leat f0 deer during the year. Soma eipert hunters maintain that a bl 1 eougir of mountain lion will dentroy , as many as I on drer In a HiirIo year. Tho estimate that the lives of r.00 dear have been saved through thn kl'lInK of nine of thee wild beaU Is regarded as conservative. The trip of Winters and Thompnon was undertaken for the purpose of kll'lng off as many cougars as possible ( Id two weeks and they returned bringing bring-ing nine skins as trophies. The huntsmen hunts-men have already sold the largest skins, one of nhlch measures II feet 7 Inches In length and the other almost al-most eight feet Ily dlsptwlng of tbee two skins for mounting the hunters am deprived of the state bounty of $19 apiece, because the present bounty boun-ty laws require the cutting o3 of a fore paw. Portland Oregonlao, |