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Classifieds   • Sections  Rogue elk causing quite a stir  When
someone in government does something stupid or embarrassing, the
silence from official sources can be tomb-like.  Case in point?
Let's call it "The Saga of the Wandering Elk."  Sometime last
year, a bull elk escaped from a Greene Co., Pa., captive cervid
facility and strolled across the Mason-Dixon line into Wetzel
Co., W.Va.  It stayed there for a while, wandered back to
Pennsylvania through the holidays, and recently turned up in
Marshall County, W.Va., where it has become somewhat of a
celebrity.  State wildlife officials are worried, and one can
hardly blame them for their concern.  Elk can carry chronic
wasting disease, bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis. The former
kills elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, and the latter two
kill cattle.  Captive cervid facilities - places where deer
and/or elk are kept behind tall fences and sold for their meat
or shot for their antlers by wealthy pe