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Show PEI LEG WOLF 01 k GREAT RANCH Wary Old Hunter Too Wise for Government Experts in New Mexico. DAJMY, N. M., Fob. 13. Roaming over 87,000-acro ranch near here is a wolf, so old, so wary and so wise that government experts say ho cannot can-not bo caught In a trap and that only two ever havo seen him. This old wolf, who is called "Peg-Leg" bo. , causo ho lost part of ono foot In a ; trap years ago, has caused ranchers of this section such losses that their total Is almost unbelievable. Thoso run, stockmen say, well Into tho thousands of dollars each yoar, Thero is a good deal of stock run In this section which is bettor than ( tho average "range cow" and it Is h "Peg-Log's" chief delight, the stock-1 men declare, to pick out somo unus-1 ( ually good yearling or two-year-old- j j Bteer, pull him down and make a meal j 1 of him. Peg-Leg's work, tho trappers j md stockmen nay, is as easily iden-1 titled as If ho had left a calling card.t for ho always oats from the same I part of tho carcass of his prey, just ibove the haunch. At one time threo government hunt-ars, hunt-ars, men chosen by the biological sur- ; vcy for their adeptness, spent several n-eoks in a vain effort to, locate the wily old wolf. At present ono of tho best shots In tho biological survoy's service Is attempting to "draw a bead" on Peg-Leg. oo : SHIPMENTS OF ELK. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Fob. 18. Shipments Ship-ments of oik from Wyoming to other states will bo stopped If the stato nme warden, Nato Wilson, has his way. Mr. Wilson rocommendB that tho asportations of tho animals bo ' jlvon up bocauso In capturing them. 1 only thoso which aro "ranch broke" j aro caught. Theso, he says, are the I most dependent of the herds upon man, bocauso whon they find grazing short on tho rango where thoy happon to ba thoy break fence and eat ranchers' food supplies. - oo |