Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — ANTLER’S LOCKED IN DEATH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANTLER’S LOCKED IN DEATH.

Remarkable Specimen Brought to Chicago by a Hunter to Be Mounted. Rather in Auditions of the red man recorded by the poet than in the annals of natural history has so picturesque a scene ever lieen accorded to man as that which a hunter, W. L. Brown, of Albion, Mich., recently came upon near Bismarck. N. D. In battle royal two monarchs of the glen, bleeding and driven to starvation, with antlers in deadlock, were discovered by the astonished hunter, struggling for freedom, each from the other. The earth for a space of two acres

was torn and trampled. On all sides there Were indications of what the battle had been before the two animals locked horns, never to be separated. The hunter stood spell-bound at the sight. No man living has recorded witnessing such a scope and only one or two specimens of antlers in deadlock have been found in the forest, after years of decay. The hunteripUt an end to the combat and the heads were separated from the bodies. They were sent to a Chicago taxidermist to be preserved and mounted. As the piece stands Mr. Brown has refused S3OO for it. and had the entire bodies been sent for mounting the figure would be worth over $5,000.

INTERLOCKED DEER SHOT IN NORTH DAKOTA.