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Show SEP CAUGHT IN SNOWSLIDE FALL EASY PREY TO COYOTES (By International Kewi Serrlec I K AG I.E. Col., Jan. 24 A band of more than one hundred mountain sheep that have Dein wintering with a herd of domestic animals on in ranch of Tony Ktis, near here, haa disappeared Into the hills, and thereby there-by hanfr the tale of why the differ-'nre differ-'nre between the pric of wool in li19 and 1920 resulted In a considerably consider-ably linger loss to Mi. Kuss than the pread In market quotations during theso respective periods indicated. No. the domesticated flock of Mr. Kims did not follow the wild brethren into the mountain faatnosses; they merely disappeared down tho gullfts of gluttonous coyotes and the wild flock, taking time by the forelock, as It were, lost itself in the rugged hills back of the bounteous valley In which the animals had found a free meal ticket during 'be recenl storm At r certain tlmp e.sch day the Kuss sheep and the wild flork mnir diwn from the Mils t- the ranch foi their provender and drink A few days of Spring-like weather recently loosened k tli q heavy snow? In the mountains andl iwiien the flock, led by tbe wild ?heep, started to descend they precipitated a SUOWSllde. The mountain sheep, more fleet than the dpmeatii animals, made I their escape from the path of the de-i seendlng snow, which swept a clean i trail from the summit of the moun-l tain to Ha lodgment in the bed of a valley creek. Kncumbered h:. a year's growth of wool, the Kuss 3heep bc- eamo all tangled up and rolled into the gulch along with the snow-slide. ! When they wore disinterred by t he Cues ranch crpw It was found that a llarg, part of the flock was missing. A search of the mountain feeding; grounds disclosed the carcasses of the n malnder of the flock, where they hail been overtaken in the snowdrifts and devoured by coyotes. Handicapped Handi-capped by their long wool, the sheep had been easy prey to the wild dogs. ECuta refused to "shear Ills flock last fall becauso the price of wooj bail dropped to a level where the cllpi would not pay the wages of the slioar-; era. He attributes the losa of the aheap m their race with the coyotes to this wool-weight handicap |