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Mower County transcript., 1890-05-07
SHEDDING HIS ANTLERS.
How the Great Elk Stag Loses His Beau
ty In the Spring.

How the Great Elk Stag Loses His Beau.
ty In the Spring.
"Come with me and will show YOU
something curious" said Dan Neeson,
the keeper Of the deer park at Golden
Gate Park. to a reporter. "Our great
elk stag, the one we got few months
ago from Menlo Park, has shed his
horns and you would not recognize him. {"
On reaching the fence that surrounded
the pen, the elk was found at the fodder
trough calmly eating his dinner of
cracked barley, and apparently oblivi.
Gus to the curious crowd that surround.
ed him. He was hardly recognizable.
The magnificent antlers that had rom
dered him the admiration of the visit
ors were missing, and nothing remained
but raw, blood-marked hubs. The elk
was as docile as COW, and submitted
without opposition to the caresses Of the
crowd, and appeared to thoroughly enjoy
their strokings.
''He shed his horns on Saturday morn.
ing," continued the keeper. "Of late
he has been more than usually fero-
ciQus, in fact so much so that it was dan.
gerous to my life to enter the pen to
feed the deer. On Friday he would not
allow me to enter the inclosure at all.
On Saturday morning failed to find
him in his usual place, and on my way
to the deer-house to hunt him up came
across one Of his antlers in the gulley,
and within short distance found the
other. then knew what was the mat.
ter, and entering boldly into the house
I found him standing with the deer
cow, as quiet and docile as child.
Why, he then ate some food out of nv
hand. I took the antlers to the super
intendent's Office, where they now are" :"
At the office the antlers we're seen,
and magnificent set they are, having
on the beam horn six protuberances,
one for each year of the stag's age.
They weighed seventy pounds, and
when set in position measured seven
feet from tip to tip on the spread.
New antlers will begin to grow on the
stag by the middle of March, and will
increase rapidly in length until teey at
tain full size.-San Francisco Examiner.