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r, Kill WeirdMANITOBA MOOSE^ * • • •“Just .looking at it ogives, you. an eerie feeling. It's weird, grotesque.This was the t description givenFriday by Harold-Wells of the Lac dii Bonnet .game.-branch,- of an Arctic-bred animal,.; killedreoenliy by1 three -Indian( hunters. ’; / -The hunters, who. hail pre-tieuhly, heard of ‘ the strange moose-like creature, had to . overcome “superstitious fe*rs” before they brought down the monster with •***. fusilade of •W-.SO 'rifle bullets”, edge of the Echoing ■ near Shamattewn the' most ’ isolated spot iirMimitobiL”1' Shamattawa is . east' . aC York Factory. The beast has been named the Shamatlwa- moose. Its hide and head will be .on display at. The Pas during the Northern Manitobatrappers festival, Feb. 1 to 4.Mr. Wells and Dr. Robert Kirk, Winnipeg, veterinarian, viewed' the ■ hide end. head -of the animal, about • a month, ago at Shamattawa,' 'Nothing Like ft We'/didn’t know what in was. We'd never seen anything- like it before,” said Mr. Wells.“Indians noticed it out .on theIce by the open water on Echoing river, which.flows into God’s river at Shamattawa.. Hunters- previously had re-ported, seeing Ifie strange beast.It seemed. to go under water . and; disappear, an if it was amphibious, lr. Wells stated-The Indians were 'scared. They are very superstitious. But* ihrei* bold hunters went* out.and. ehot Hlt; Heavily-Haired “They Then hooked/ a J’ope onto it *—• it was precariously perched near open water — and hauled it hi. Then they skinned it. ■*lr. Well* *aid the animalwa* About the size of •*. small moose and/ heavily-haired all over.Hoofs- on the bea^t were veryflat, and it had small horns, pointing backward .Instead of to the front, Mr. Wells said.i... The animal -'vas uglv enough to scare a man,to death.” Mr. Wei’* declared.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Jan 28, 1950
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