Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — Passing of Prong-Homed Antelope. [ARTICLE]

Passing of Prong-Homed Antelope.

The prong-horned antelope, an animal peculiar to North Americd; is {a danger of extinction. This antelope, which has so many peculiarities that naturalists class it in a fdmity by itself, once existed by thousands on the open western plains. The tyiftnralists of the country fear its absolute extinction in the near future, unload protection is given to the few remaining. In 1908 the biological survey estimated that the total number of antelopes in the United States ;hgd been reduced to 17,000. Of these about 10.000 were in Montana, Wyoming and the Yellowstone National park, and the remaining 7,000 were distributed in 18 other states.