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Show ;ovi:u.mi:nt makiw wah HsbbI O.V PltllDATOItV ANIMALS HiH G. It. Holman or Provo, who ha ssibI charge In Utah of the war whloh the IjsH government ha -declared against TiH predatory nnlmals, wn In Salt Lake 'i'H City last week to make final arrange- liBB uient for the winter campaign. Right tr'HH men nre In the field and four moro tssH have since left for the mountain and UHLi wildernesses on the trnll of bears, iliH mountain lions, co)otes, etc., with K trap and paraphernalia prepared for 1 H the Selge. H Holman wa transferred n month ' M ngo from tho forestry servlco to take 1 H charge of the hunting and trupplng HH actlvltle In thl stale nnd the Arlxomt ' LH strip north of the Grand Canyon of iH the Colorado. Hu hu secured tho M service of P. J. Hale of Gruntsvllle, IsliH who receutl), 011 hi own account. MsH made a record of catching a hundred fiaH nnd twenty-six coyote and sevon wild RiB cats In seven week on the desert In HB Tooele county The men urn paid n HtH salary for their work nnd not a boun- 'SsH t) The akin taken nre the property JEsl of the government and the best speol- fHsH men will be preserved for museum HI purposes, )' The method emplo)ed hy theso f HH men who curry 011 the wur against , IH predator) anlmuls consist mostly of flH trapping although some poison Is BH used and occusloually a wandering IH creature may come within range of n VjH long distance rifle. The government sIH furnishes traps, poison nnd ammunl- SjpJ tlon, but the hunter furnish their HH own provisions. aH |