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Show HUNTERS COME BACKf WITH ONLY 111 RABBITS One hundred and twenty-eight sharpshooters of Ogden and Drigham City slaughtered" approximately 1000 rabbits in the big annual drive at the W. I. Norton ranch, near Mounmcnt, yesterday. Tho party of sportsmen left here yesterday morning in throe special cars, Thoy arrived at the Norton ranch shortly beforo noon and the bombardment began Immediately. On tho return trip, the special left Monument Monu-ment at 5 o'clock, arriving here three hours later. "There wero not aB many in the party as wo had hoped," said Wlllard W. Wilson, commercial agent for the Southern Pacific. "Also the rabbits wero not as plentiful as expected. Wo came mighty near getting everything In sight and then killed only 1000." Decauso the shooters divided tho rabbits among themselves at the Union station upon arrival last night, tho Intended distribution among the poor this morning failed to materialize. material-ize. The hunt is an annual institution and is Intended to rid that section of the rabbits. |