Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 24, 1913
    Decatur, Ill., Jan.-Someone today threw a brick into the smoothly running parcel post machinery in the Decatur postoffice. It was a package of fresh skunk hides, mailed by a trapper on a rural route. Because fresh breezes were blowing in the country the rural route carrier was able to bring the parcel post to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 22, 1922
    Algonac, Mich., March 22.-Hours of torture, in which Mrs. Joseph Sears, 72 year old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held her in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman’s body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
    A man in Rockland, Me., lately dug out of one hole fifty-five snakes and six full-grown skunks-Boston Post.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 2, 1875
    Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, Cal., a maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed more game with her small telescope rifle than any two hunters in that region this winter. She made thirty dollars on squirrels tails last summer, getting only five cents apiece. At a shooting match last year she took so many […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 19, 1913
Petted in Evanston, They Bit the Hands That Fed Them, and They Are “In Bad.” Â Â Â Â Squirrels in Evanston-pampered, nut-fattened pets of the residents for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn. Â Â Â Â Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have “bitten the hands […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 6, 1886
    A letter from D. N. Whipple, Gettysburg, Kan., states that the recent storms in the western part of Kansas have been very severe on the cattle and sheep in the ranges, and the losses have run from 10 to 125 head on small herds of cattle, and as high as 1000 out of 1500 […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 22, 1901
    Statistics from official sources show that prairie dogs occupy and render worthless, or nearly so, for agricultural purposes 1,224,854 acres of land in Kansas. All efforts to exterminate the dogs have failed, even with the co-operation of the Department of Agriculture.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 17, 1872
    The Waterville [Kansas] Telegraph tells a terrible tale of suffering concerning Mr. F. M. Brower, the survivor of a party of buffalo hunters frozen to death in Phillips county, in November last. Mr. Brower was badly frozen on the morning of Sunday, November 17. His four companions went for help, and all were frozen […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 20, 1917
Wounded Animal Gives Battle Royal to Huntsman When He is Poked in the Eye. Â Â Â Â An exciting story is told of a party who went buffalo shooting in Zuzuland recently. During the course of the holiday a buffalo was shot early one morning. The party saw the animal drop, and as it did not move, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 11, 1875
    A Missouri farmer, after a long calculation, presents the following facts concerning dogs:-In thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep have been killed by dogs. He estimates the number of dogs in these thirty-two counties to be 462,000; that a hog will thrive on the food necessary to support an able-bodied dog, and at the end of […]