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Show I BIG KILLING BY THE j BABBIT HUNTERS J, UF OGDEN Thu Ogden hunters, 165 strong, ivlth no fatalities except to about 750o rabbits, returned from Monument - Ktah, at 8 o'clock last night The hunt was pronounced to bo the mosi successful one ever held in Utah and today many of the poor people o: the city, with others, will gather H: around a big platter of delicious Jack-IB Jack-IB rabbit. The train was met at the Union J depot on Its arrival, by over 400 peo-Wm peo-Wm pie, all clamoring for rabbltB, and it if was only by a strong effort that scv-M scv-M eral wagons were filled for dlstrlbu-i dlstrlbu-i tion among the poor of the city bo-U bo-U fore the workers, under the direction B of Chief of Police W. I. Norton, had H to give in and let tho crowd have mt what was left. HW The hunting train loft for Monu W ment yesterday morning, with D. M. Newton, traveling passenger agent of H the Oregon Short Line, and P. W. Ml Ea6torn, assistant superintendent of tho Sou I horn Pacific, in charge. Arriving at their destination, the hunters separated Into companies, with the following acting as captains. W. I Norton, Dr. G. W. Baker, V H. Taylor, Oscar Couch, A. L Brewer, Brew-er, George Browning, George Seaman, H and Richard Lock of Ogden; Will Taylor of Hooper and Mr Jcnben of j Hooper. The shooting was done on the sage-Wk sage-Wk brush flats near Monument. In jRft about 12 Inches of snow Tramping V I through tho snow proved rather tir-BJ tir-BJ lng work but the snow was responsl-H responsl-H bio in a largo measure for the big jMM killing, as the rabbits when once Beared Into tho op'-n, stood little. Hi chance of getting away. ML . The rabbits wen gathered up b) I horsemen, who will receive npproxt II mately $376 bounty from Boxelder county for their work- The bounty paid by the county on tho rabblta la killed by the Salt Lake party laBt J Sunday, amounted to $186. It is eafl-D eafl-D soon by a comparison of the two amounts, that the statement made L by the Ogden hunters that their hunt HL wns the most successful one ever held i in the state, is true. Lf K L. Noggle, representative of the y, Universal Weekly, and B. Struckman HE of the Patho Weekly, went with the hunterB and, Just before the return ttBV trli was made, secured over 400 foot W of moving pioturo nlms of the hunt. These will bo Bhown practically all ft over tho world. U The train service for the hunt was .jir adequate In every respect and every (JO 'j member of tho party had words of i praise for tho men who had charge I? of It A "double header" was used up ' In order to assure good time over HE Promontory mountain. |