Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-05
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
The American Buffalo Has Be-
 come Nearly Extinct.
Colorado the Home of the RcXnRining Members of CountlOss Hords- wankOn Destruction of
 the Animals.

There are about fifty buffalos still ranging wild in Colorado, says the Den yer Republican. And yet one man, for whom frontier justice is waiting, re- gently killed Ave.
 It has been so generally and frequent ly stated and published that the Ameri- can buffalo and bison have become com- pletely and thoroughly extinct that the general public has come to accept it as fact and believe that the only speci- mems are those which have become do- mesticated and are carefully housed and cared for in the several geological gardens and parks.
 That there are few of them remaining on the plains is certainly true, but there are enough, with proper protection, to soon produce large herds. In this state, where once there were thousands of these animals, their number has been rapidly reduced by hunters, who have slain them simply for the momentary pleasure they have experienced in kill ing large game, until they now number less than fifty and are in four small herds. These are confined to the rough CT and more sparsely populated dis tricts, their habitations being Q more effective protection to them than all the state game laws ever enacted by the general assembly.
 So small had grown the number of these distinctively American animals that in 1889 the state legislature enact ed law providing a severe penalty for the killing of a single specimen before the year 1900, thus allowing full ten years for them to propagate, but in ,l ceived but short time ago that some one in the Kenosha range had shot five buffaloes. State Game Warden Land started at once to make a special and personal investigation of the case. While out he has also made an exten. site visit through the state, and he haa just returned with an interesting ac- count. He is somewhat discouraged with many things connected with the enforcement, or, more properly. the nonenforcement of all the game laws, and predicts that unless something decisive is done, and that very soon, the buffalo will not be the only family wiped from the face of the earth. He reports a most terrible slaughter of all game during the last few months. He was asked in reference to the killing ot | DuHaIOeS.
 "There are now very few of them, he stated, land these, in our feeble and crippled condition, we are endeav bring to protect. That five of then were killed recently is Q fact, but found that we could not convict thu guilty if we brought him to trial. Ht admitted having killed five of them ant boasted of the fact to his friends, but we could find no one, after careful in vestigation, who would testify agains him, and if he were arraigned h' would, of course, say not guilty.
 "I judge that we have now in thu state something less than fifty buffa loes, and these are in four punches One of these has recently been seen 1, Middle park, and numbers but Ave Another, and possibly the largest, i In the Kenosha range, and number possibly twenty. The third, of ten O fifteen head, is at Hahn's peak, in Rout county. The fourth, and the smHlles except that at Middle park, is Q Dolores"