Published in The Lake County Independent on 02/16/1894.
An Eagle, a Coyote and a Fish Get Mixed Up in a Lively Scrap.
    A curious contest was witnessed by some Texas cowboys recently between a coyote, a catfish and an eagle. The fish was swimming downstream making his way through shallow water to deeper pools. The coyote saw the fish and determined, if possible, to take him. He accordingly ran along by the stream for a time and finally made a grab at the fish, catching one fin in his mouth. The fish was a big fellow, weighing at least fifty pounds, and he managed to pull the coyote into the water. To avoid drowning, the coyote had to relinquish his hold on the fish and make his way up the bank as best he could.
    Meanwhile another enemy attacked the fish. This was an eagle which, swooping down, buried one of his talons in the fish’s body and started to carry the struggling creature to his own nest. The combatants in their gyrations came against a great uprooted cottonwood tree lying half in the water at the edge of the pool. The eagle caught one of the roots with his free talon, hung on like grim death, and, flapping his wings, tore his claw lose from the fish’s body. With one great whirl the catfish went down into the depths out of sight, while the eagle hopped wearily to the highest branch, and there sat, lifting one foot from time to time, and looking the wettest and most disgusted bird imaginable. As the cowmen rode they saw the coyote sitting on the high prairie bank, looking down at the pool and the eagle as if he womdered what so much scrapping had been all about, and whether he himself and really been in it at any time.
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