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UNCLE SAMS ONLY WOMAN TRAPPER There is only one woman employed by the United States to trap predatory animals. She is Mrs. Ada Tingley of Idaho, and she draws a regular pay check from the federal government for tracking down prowlers of the west. She has been engaged In her strenuous ,work for two years and likes it immensely. Man trappers are going to find it hard to beep up with her records. Last winter-she and hrr huMiand, who has long trapped iu southern Idaho, were eneamied miles from the nearest trading point on the breaks of the l.runeau, and while then? lnitli fell ill with influenza, but somehow they came through. Every morning Mrs. Tingley mounts her cayuse and is off to her traps, of which she runs six lines, each comprising fifty. The route covers ubout thirty miles. She uses a .32 caliber Marlin with almost perfect accuracy, as during the summer months all the coyotes and bob-cats have to be shot, as their skins are worthless. Other game pursued by Mrs. Tingley are wolves, lynx and mountain lions. She makes 110 special effort to run down foxes and badgers, and no bears come within the category of predatory animals. According to her experience a bear seldom attacks live stock. Mrs. Tingley uses for her traps a fish bait prepared by a secret formula known only to herself and her husband. The last of a band of wolves which had been the despair of stock raisers In Caribou County was disposed of last week. Memphis Commercial Appeal,
