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Show Idaho Sportsmen Rescue Elk With Block and Tackle IDAHO FALLS. Ida . March 20. True sportsms nship of the west which heeds the appeal to save animals as strongly as the desire to slaughter, has been demonstrated, demon-strated, at Ashton. Ida., where a dossn men worked an entire day with block and tackle to lift a two-year-old cow elk from the bottom of a deep canyon, according accord-ing to word reaching here. Owing to the deep, soft snow I it was Impossible to gel teams within mllSI of the spot where the Injured animal lay ami dog teams I and sklis were brought Into use, I Cdcot Zarn, a contestant in the American dog tenm derby at Ashton Ash-ton furnished his team and sled to haul the block and tackle nnd the men proceeded to the spot on kits. The elk hod suffered severely from privation She was thin and emanclated and her hoofs w ero badly watersoaked and bleeding from where the rocks had torn her feet In trying to scale Iho nlmrmt perpcndirulri r walls of the canyon Slit- Is being fed and cared for at a ranch until such u time as ohe is considered n ble to take care of herself, when she will be taken toward the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Notional park boundary and turned loose unless Instructions to the oontrarj nn received from the state game department |