Show dying off there are a great number of horses running on the range by tho the little mountains about ten miles west of this place and we arc are informed by a it gentleman from plain city that many of those animals anima Is arc are dying it appears that since the snow has passed away t the he grass has grown rapidly among the sage brushes which are said to be completely infested ested with an insect called the wood tick when the equines get their heads beads down among the sage safe to crop the green herbage the insects crawl up their faces and lodge in their necks and axed then commence to suck their blood wounds arc are thus inflicted in the animals which it appears becomer putrid and the poor brutes are eaid said to drop down suddenly and aud die the mid greatest mortality is reported to be among yearling colts our pur informant thinks by making these facts public the owners of horses which ard out on that bangt in may be inai induced iced to get them home and save their lives livet |