Hurled Down 600 Foot Cliff Man Who Stole Young.
    Frank Schreiber of Colorado Springs, Colo., was recently badly injured as a result of a fight with a mother eagle whose young he stole from a nest on the side of a precipice 600 feet from the valley below.
    Schreiber discovered the nest in the North Cheyenne canyon, 180 feet from the top of the precipice. He descended to the nest by means of a rope. When he seized two of the young birds the mother swooped down on him and fought him with all the skill her maternal instincts could inspire.
    Schreiber used a pistol with poor effect and soon the rope which held him was clawed until it snapped, and Schreiber rooled down the almost perpendicular cliff for a distance of 600 feet. That he was not killed was due to the fact that at intervals projecting ledges broke the force of his fall.
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