Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — Russian Bison Exterminated. [ARTICLE]

Russian Bison Exterminated.

What has happened, during the war, to the bison herds of Central Europe? Protected by a ukase of the Czar Alexander, bisons still existed In some private parks of Poland and Lithuania, the last of their kind In Europe. Count Potocki’s herd was kept in an immense park, and for some time was protected by the Cossacks of the Don. But according to a French writer, M. Grandidier, there is no doubt as to their ultimate so e. In 191-7 the bolshevik! thought fitting to include the herd in their policy of extermination. Bisons could not be owned by everybody, therefore they' must be owned by nobody, add so, in the general cataclysm, the famous herd disappeared.