The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-22
coLoRADo's COYOTE HUNT.
Thousands of the Pests Expected to Be
Killed at the Roundup.

Thousands of the Pests Expected to BE
Killed at the Roundup.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 29.-Eastern
Colorado ranchmena value coyote at
So. so. This seemingly extravagant
price will result in another great hunt
this fall, in which - is expected that
thousands of the little animals will fall
victims to the AS of the cowboys or the
hounds of the sports from the East.
The plains country in eastern Colo
RADIO, which was once the breeding
ground and home of thousands of buff
faloes, is now populated by thousands
of coyotes, and so destructive have they
become to stock that the State and the
cattle barons working together are Of
fering $37. so for every coyote scalp pre-
scented. This offer will result in at
tracing hundreds of hunters from Ne
braska, Kansas, Wyoming and western
Colorado, and even how in the region
infested, many hunters are making big
money.
For the past five years the ranchmen
have admitted their inability to cope
with the increasing number of wolves,
but they have waited patiently in the
hope that the animals might be sue
cessfully killed by poison. The wolves,
however, have been so well fed on veal
and lamb from the herds that piece of
beef lying on the prairie has no at
traction for their cultivated tastes, and
they pass it by.
About month ago Gardner Brothers,
ranchmen of Yuma county, lost thirty
six head of cattle, and for many days
they could net account for the mortali-
ty Large and small stock were sud-
n Oft nlyn6 Inv ran
would continue in that condition until
death. The cattle would paw the earth
and attempt to bite and hook every
thing in sight, whether animate or in
animate. Froth from the mouths of the
beasts was scattered all over the range.
! Ranchmen were alarmed and did not
dare to attempt to quiet or corral the
cattle either on foot or on horseback.
After three days three dozen cattle
were found dead.
| Former State Veterinarian Gresweli
was called down to investigate the
causes of the mortality, and he for
Warded q complete diagnosis to WASH
lington with the result that DR.. Salmon
of the Department of Agriculture pro-
nounced it rabies. Then the Gardner
boys remembered that they had killed
coyote which had acted very strange
! ly about two weeks previous to the
death of the stock. 1t had secluded it
self in a vacant ranch cabin and was
nearly dead from exhaustion when one
of the cowboys on the roundup des-
patched it with a club.
! The great stock region was alive to
| the danger by this time, and besides
the regular 81. 80 offered for every wolf
scalp by the State of Colorado, tive
ranchmen offered $40 each for every
wolf captured, and the Eastern Colora-
do Live Stock Association, as body
offered SIS for every animal killed. In
Denver scores of SportSmen with dogs
and guns are arranging to make an ex-
petition to the range of sandhlllS ir
which the coyotes are breeding, ano
letters from Nebraska and Kansas in
dictate that hundreds will be on the
ground from neighboring States. Many
Wyoming people are already there. The
sandhills break a monotonously leve
lprairie, or plain, near the State line be,
tween Colorado and Nebraska, and Il
is here that the little animals breed by
thousands every year.
Twelve years ago when one of these
big wolf hunts was held, it was be
lieved that the coyote was a thing OF
the past because so many of the ami
mails had been slaughtered. Fighter
hundred were killed at this time, bu
the mortality appears to have had bu
little effect upon the coyotes. While tbs
cowboys do not fear them, instance:
have been known where the children o
Iranchmen have been attacked by then
land have narrowly escaped death.