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Show fins DRIVES TO DEATH j CareiMct of Wild Anlmali ChoVit Lk In WHhlngton Stat. Id aprclKl ilinnli'h from Teom. Wh., not long ao. tho airanRo atory waa told of a lake In Clarke county Uiat ai choked with the bnilli'a of wild anlmnla drlron Into It bj fli'rco lon-at flrca. L. K. Duval, a timber crulaor for the Northern l'arlflc railroad, rail-road, tclln the followlDK atory about It In the flan Franclaco Ilull-iln: "The lake la only about one aero In extent, and I havo frwiuptitly via-Ited via-Ited tho place befora. When pnnalnK near the apot acvernl ilaya bko I noticed no-ticed a peculiar amell. and turned anlrto to make an InveatlKallon. I found the aurfaee of tlio Inke ono mnna of deer, foiea. Itea-a, wolrea and all the email varlellca of anlmnla tlmt roam In our wooila. The Inko la In a deep hollow between the hllla. and tho fire had encircled It at a great tlla-tance tlla-tance In tho first place, crowding to ward tho Inko by di Kteea, and at Iti't driving every llvlft anlmnl that had made Its home in the wornla for mllea around Into the InUe, to he aloly roasted to dnth before, the fierce heat. "The whole aurface of the water wna covered with ciirrnnea, and how many deep they were I hnd no menna of knowing. From the romalna of otner anlniala mnr by 1 aurmlro that aomo tried to eaiape through tho circle cir-cle of death. I havo heard that In auch supreme momenta tho flerceat anlmnla fornet tlielr foroclty. Some-tlil.ig Some-tlil.ig like that muat have occurred here, for beam, deer, wolvea, mink and aqulrrela were Indincrlmiiiately mingled min-gled In the mana. I'mbalily the only struggle waa for lodgment on the bicka of the already dead animals. Numbers of tho people l.vlng remote (mm that region were making pilgrimage.) pil-grimage.) to the lake to view the spectacle." |