Show Hoof Disease May MaHave Have Killed Off Toed I 3 Toed 3 Toed Horses I SPOKANE Wash May 27 The Th theory that the prehistoric three three- thre toed horse known to have the tho American continent In great t numbers at one time may have hav been boon exterminated by the foot oot and ond d mouth disease his has been he en advanced b by Prof T A Boner Bonser curator o of c the Spokane public museum and head of tho the of biology at ot the North Central high school here According tc ir to Mr the only logical explanation of the tho animals animal's ani- ani animal's mals mal's complete extInction Is that an swept over the tha entire e continent D Wo to 0 know that th the Toot root and mout mouth h disease i Is highly contag- contag contagIous contagious Ious Mi Mu Bonser said On On the theother theother other hand we e e know of no animal anima malady malody that might effect the th df dc de- de destruction of an entire species of animals of this tipe t Pe We have no noway I Iway way to determine exactly what this thi malady was but bute e e know that the he I I conditions condition wore were favorable for tor Its spread and the theory that the cause was the foot toot and mouth tile tile- ease CASO o Is easily eully tenable When the white man came caine to America there were no horse hors hero here Tho The Indians had no legends to Indicate th lb they had ever eve I known of such ouch an nn animal j wo we know that once horses were abundant on this continent and particularly In the Inland Em Empire pire Abundant fossil remains toun found In inthis this region Indicate that the three thre toed horse horae once thrived ed cd In the In In- In Inland land In-land land Empire II Mr Bons Bonser r said n |