were taken from the dressed-animal. The
Weight includes the hide, head, neck,
feet, fore shoulders, and hind quarters.
The middle portion of the back was
missing.
Nov. 5 Returned to Berkeley with the
specimen.
STRAY MOUNTAIN
SHEEP IS KILLED
AT GLENVILLE
Second Lone Specimen to Find
Its Way Out of Mountain
Fastnesses Meets Death
Game Commission Officials En-
deavoring to Establish Identity
of Slayer of Animal
For the second time within the
past decade a lone mountain sheep
made its way last week, out of the
Kern county mountain fastnesses in-
to civilization, at Glennville, and this
specimen, a yearling buck, was shot
to death within ten minutes after
it was first seen. At the very time
that two 30-30 bullets were pumped
into its body by someone as yet not
certainly identified, District Ranger
Wesley Snider with a group of CCC
men were hastening from the ranger
station to Glennville, hoping to capture
the bewildered animal and
save its life.
The buck made its appearance last
Friday, Snider, who was in Porter-
tville today, said, and was seen by
children at the Glennville school as
it passed the school building. It
went on down the county road and
crossed the state highway. The per-
son who telephoned to the ranger
station said that the sheep had got
into a fence corner, and for the time
being seemed confused, unable to de-
termain whether it should jump over,
make its way around or try to force
its way through. Apparently it did
worked its way out of this trap and
farther along ran between a couple
of buildings. When Snider arrived
he found it just a little way from
the buildings, dead, with two holes
through its body apparently made by
a 30-30 calibre bullet.
The animal was skinned and hide
and carcass were turned over to
Game Warden Les Arnold of Kern
county and Captain of Patrol Sam
Balloon, of the valley game com-
mission forces.
Shooting a mountain sheep consti-
tutes a felony and the officers are
continuing an effort to establish the
identity of the person who fired the
two shots.
The buck was fat and apparently
about a year and a half old. Though
the hills have been full of deer hunt-
ers during the season just closed,
none reported seeing any mountain
sheep in the Glennville district, or
at any place in the Tulare county
Sierras, so far as known. It has
been reported for years that there
was still a small flock of the moun-
tain sheep in the rusged country
northeast of Mineral King, but few
have been seen of late years. The
mountain sheep still linger in the
Panamint range, in eastern Inyo
county.
About six years ago a lone mountain
sheep put in its appearance near
Glennville, was chased and captured
and placed in a corral, from which,
howerer, it made its escape during
the night. It was never seen again.
The animal killed Friday at Glen-
nville had a thick coat of gray-
lish hair, rather than a fleece, Rang-
er Snider said, and two heavy horns
several inches in diameter at the
base.