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Show Salt Lakers To Chase Wild Horses SALT LAKE, March 17. A novel scheme has been devised by two Salt Lake men to capture allvo the beat of tho wild horses that roam In Southern N'ovada. It is proposed to shoot tho animals with a bullet tipped with magnesium mag-nesium and containing a gelotlno capsule cap-sule filled with a narcotic drug. Tho magnesium, it has been found, dissolves dis-solves in tho flesh and causes no permanent per-manent Injury if a vital organ is n6t penetrated, while tho opiate deprives the game temporarily of tho power of locomotion. In the nomadic equine bands are many inngnLflcent specimens. speci-mens. Stallions valued at 55,000 a head are not uncommon. The herds aro very cunning and It Is difficult to gain sight of them. Tho present method of capture is to woar thom out by chasing in relays. If their method meth-od proves successful In Nevada the Salt Lakers will try It on some of the wild beasts valuable for exhibition purposes. |