Show bittle of the elk bew york aimel in tho the winter of 1830 1880 while ecott at ing over in the ponder powder knar country I 1 cagne upon the skeletons ot of two very cry largo large ell lying backs down gitil with their horns inextricably fastened together these two hid had been bean no doubt engaged in a deadly combat had bad fallen without e even en being able to atu get up aga again inand and no doubt liedthe died tho horrible 0 ariele death of starvation uta otar nation A hunter told tho tile writer that he had once witnessed a terrific fight between two pant n t blue elk over in in dig horn moun inns while passing through tho the woods he ard beard the roost most abul aw ful bellowing bellow ing and bawling baling imaginable and carefully care carefully full y approaching the scene of conflict an open in tho forest perhaps two acres in extent lie beheld tho the remarkable spectacle of two males rushing and tearing about heads down girl with horns so locked that be he was afterward e ard unable to separate them these Thes eliad biad hooked eato together early in the jio fight and tho the two fairly tore up the forest in in their struggle for tho the mastery the shrubs and bushes were trampled down small saplings uprooted rooted or bent over and occasional occasionally uy y they would crush up against some big bg tree that would have e smashed the ribs of any ordinary an animal linal after a while w bile one of thema ent to ga grass lj and dragged the other down with him neither was able to rise af afterward but on the ground aund they continued conti the battle rolling over and over in the struggle with a force that surely ought to have dragged their horns out by the roots or torn their heads off when the combatants became quiet theli the hunter carefully a approached broached the pair and put a knife I 1 in T t the hc heart of each 11 thus saving them from a miserable and horrible death not to speak of tho the ton of fino fine meat ho lie obtained from tho the carcasses carca sees |