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Show I HUGE PRAIRIE WOLF TRAPPED IN OGOEN VALLEY AFTER THREE YEARS OF COSTLY DEPREDATIONS I Tho story of how a Iiukc prtJrlt wolf had ravaged the flocks of Ogden Og-den valley ranrhcra for thr years ind how the anlrual finally was caught in a trap bailed with fno of ItB own victims was told today when V. V. Colvln. rancher of the MlddleforlC canyon can-yon dlRtrl.-t In upden valley, collected collect-ed $62.50 from Webfer county as bounty boun-ty for hla prize. Colvln exp ta to rr-allzo anothor handsomo sum from the sale of the pelt, for he possesses a handsome skin. For three years farmers haw rniss-i rniss-i 6 sheep and calv. s which fell prey to this big wolf. AH efforts to trap him had proved futile. Just ".wo Mka hefore ho finally was caught be bad killed IS sheep In ono flock 'rl'.n took a double steel trap and b;iltod it with one of those doad sheep. Mr. Wolf finally was caught. I'olvln found him with two fact fat in th-st6Cl th-st6Cl Jaws and ho killed tho animal. Tho wolf weighed about 1&0 pounds. ColVln had the animal In town two or thro days before tho bounty was j paid. Several persons examined It and j finally n-rocd It belonged to tho prairie wolf tribe, but all agreed it . was an unusually immense specimen. Thrro was considerable relief and satisfaction expressed In Offden valle when the news of Mr. Wolf's demise Oil broadcasted. |