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Sheep Mortality

       Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]

Animal Sagacity.

From the “Boston Traralier”      Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]

Larder Is Filled With Quail By Hunting Hog

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922.      Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America’s only hunting hog.      And he comes home with his game bag filled.      Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, […]

Hunting

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on March 13, 1880.      A Georgia man fired seven shots at a wild cat, killed his dog, wounded a farmer in the leg, and put out one of his own eyes out. The wild cat escaped.

Kill Cows; Carry Away Dog

Published on August 26, 1904 in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.      Three eagles attacked and killed a cow belonging to Aaron Whitsoh of Garden City, Kan. They also picked up and carried about twenty-five yards a dog that weighed thirty-five pounds.

Dog Cures St. Vitus Dance

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 8, 1922.      Curing St. Vitus dance by having a poodle dog sleep with the patient has been announced by a Denver women as the most effective remedy she has found yet for her two daughters.      The woman, Mrs. J. C. Morris of 2064 […]

Wolf Whips a Pack of Hounds

       Details of a thrilling fight in which an enormous timber wolf vanquished a pack of eighteen hounds has reached Mattoon. It occured on the Cizemore farm, near Marley, and was witnessed by Siebert Scott, William Creech and Mark Davidson, who were at work in a sugar camp. They saw the wolf running, followed […]

Dog Has Many Friends

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 4, 1922. Six thousand persons signed a petition to save the life of a dog which a London [England] magistrate had ordered to be killed on account of its alleged ferocity.

Man Attacked For A Coon

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.      Henry and Barney Chasteen, residing at Holman, Ind. went coon hunting. A coon ran up a tree and Henry climed the tree after him. He perched himself on a limb and was about to fire when the limb broke, precipitating him to […]

Dog

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 28, 1880.      A large Newfoundland dog, accompanied by a small black and tan, visited a Hartford police officer’s yard and deliberately killed a pet Scotch terrier belonging to the house. The two strange dogs carried the body away, finally leaving it on Windsor avenue.