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.”
    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for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn.
    Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have “bitten the hands that fed them,” by scampering over roofs and awakened their benefactors. They also are accused of eating birds’ eggs, driving birds from the suburb, leaving insects to multiply until they are destroying the trees.
    Twelve years ago Volney W. Foster bought several squirrels. They were ancestors of hundreds which now infest the city, protected by ordinances, and impudent by reason of fines imposed upon their enemies.
    Mayor Smart has been receiving complaints, some saying that the rodents have gnawed holes in roofs and built nests in attics. Accordingly he instructed the corporation counsel to repeal the protective ordinance, and declare an “open season” on squirrels.
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 sheep. The loss in this county alone aggregated about $50,000. Mr. Whipple was lucky in that he had sheds and stables for his stock so he did not lose even a chicken. The thermometer ran down to 24 degrees below zero, and was below zero nearly all the time for three weeks.
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 to death. On the Wednesday following, Mr. Brower was found by two hunters, McMurrer and Payne. A fire was built, and Payne remained with Brower and McMurrer went for help. Arriving at the home of F. W. Wagner, on Cedar creek, nine miles away. McMurrer was so badly frozen that he could not return but Wagner and two others started out on Friday. They failed to find Brower till Saturday. He was found helpless, laying with his feet at a fire that Payne had suceeded in keeping up. Neither he nor Payne had anything to eat since the storm came on, more than a week before. He was taken to a house and not many days later his feet were both amputated. He passed through Waterville, the other day, on his way to Fox Lake, Wis., in charge of his brother.
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.
    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, decided to deal with it later in the day. Returning in the afternoon they saw the buffalo from a distance, apparently in the same position as they left it. One of the hunters went out to the buffalo, and on reaching it poked a stick in its eye. This had the effect of restoring animation in the animal, which was only badly wounded, and a warm time thereupon ensued for the gentleman in question.
    The buffalo jumped up and tackled the hunter, who hung round the neck of the buffalo in the hope of tiring it out. When the other members of the party arrived the buffalo and his foe were whirling round at such a rate, that it was impossible to get a shot in without endangering the life of the later. The buffalo tried to stomp the man to the ground with his forefeet, and at last lifted him with a terrible toss of its horns into a thorn-tree near by. This gave the other men the chance of a shot, and the buffalo’s career finally terminated.
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 a year weigh 200 pounds; therefore if the food for these dogs went to hogs, it would make 92,000,000 pounds of pork, worth, at six cents a pound, $4,550,000-nearly twice the value of all the schoolhouses in the state, and more than twice the amount used by the State for school purposes.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 15, 1895
    The largest farm in this country and probably in the world is in the southwestern part of Louisiana. Its area is 100 miles north and south and twenty-five miles east and west. It was purchased in 1883 by a syndicate of northern capitalists by whom it is still operated. At the time of its purchase its 1,500,000 acres was a vast pasture for the cattle belonging to a few dealers in that country. Now it is divided into pasture stations or ranches existing every six miles. The fencing is said to have cost about $50,000. The land is best adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cotton. Steam power is used almost exclusively. There is not a single draft horse on entire place, if we except those used by the herders of cattle, of which there are 16,000 head on the place. The Southern Pacific railway runs for thirty-six miles through the farm. The company has three steamboats operating on the waters of the estate, of which 300 miles are navigable. It also has an ice house, bank, shipyard and rice mill.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 15, 1912
Shown its Casualties Are Larger Than Those of Bull Fighting.
    New York, April 15,-In an effort to show that football is a more brutal and deadly sport than bull fighting a statistician has compiled a table showing the total casualties in Spain from bull fighting during 1911. There were 872 bull fights, attended by 7,000,000 people, but only ten bull fighters were killed and sixteen injured. The fatalities among the animals, however, are shown to have reached 4,400 bulls and 5,600 horses.
    Football casualties for 1911 were given as thirteen killed and 500 injured. In 1909 there were thirty-three deaths.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    A train loaded with stock reached Pittsburg the other day when it was discovered that nearly the entire cargo were smothered. 1,200 hogs and 200 cattle were lost.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 24, 1901
Cattle and Horses Do Not Get Frightened in Rough Weather.
    Do the horses and cattle get frightened and make much disturbance in rough weather? asked the writer of a New York dealer who ships cattle abroad.
    “Bless you, no; They’ve got sea legs that would put an old salt to shame. Occasionally a horse will lose his ballance, but a bullock is the greatest balancer you ever saw. They are knowing brutes too. You know, we put them four in a pen. Well, you’ll never find all four standing up or lying down at one time. They figure the thing out and decide how they’ll get the most room and most comfort. So two of them stand up while two lie down. When they get tired, they shift the watch.
    “The horses like to be talked to when there’s a rough sea and things are pretty lively. They always like certain men better than others. So do the cattle. We have one man who can do anything with them. Every bullock and horse on the boat knows him by the time we’ve been out two days. He comes in handy when there’s an accident.
    “It’s mighty seldom that a serious accident happens nowadays, but once in awhile a horse or a bullock does get thrown and breaks a leg or does some bad damage. We don’t carry a veterinary. The men know as much about ordinary cattle and horse ailments as any vet, and if one of the brutes breaks his leg there’s nothing for it but to kill him. A veterinary couldn’t do anything for him.
    “The company charges from $6 to $20 a head for carrying cattle and from $27 to $250 a head for horses. When the government inspectors stopped overcrowding, they cut down the carrying capacity of some boats 75 head. That made a pretty big hole in the ship’s profits in the course of a year.”-Exchange.