Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-23
CITY

March 81, Is73.

One of oar citizens whose dwelling IL
ia the eastern part Of the city and there
lore nottar from Chinatown, tthat region
so dangerous to the safety and longevity
IF the featherei denizens of the barn
ward. having occasion, during the recent
season Of festivities amongst our Mongo-
iian neishbors to visit his hen-coop at
an early hour of the morning, was sur
prised to find under the snow what
seemed an animated gunny bag, the
which, upon inspection proved to be Il
sack containing two very weak and dis
couraged pul,ets that had doubtless been
wrenched with remorseiess hand from
the Morphean roosting pole, thence to
be stuffed into an lGnomiaIons bag, anu
while still confined within which. to be
lncontinently dropped ny some cared
invader of the henery afol.sai This
startling discovery aroused the sleeping
demon of suspicion within the breast OF
our worthy fellow 'ownslIan and he
made precipitaIc Inspection OF the
place where, on the night before. his
fowls had betaken themselves cuntidingly
and with an undisturbe1 sense of COM
fort and security to their accustomed
places of Iepose, then and there to find
that of the one Kindred and twenty val
led cocks. hens and pullets Ill whose
growing and eggs and ownership but the
day before he had rejoiced, full four
score had fallen a prey to the wicked
greed OF the midnight naraUder Who
shall chide this justly enraged citizen, II,
in the heat If his wrath he visited, IN
words, quenchless damnation upon the
thieves who had thus ruthlessiy despolied
his premises and who vii! wonder that
when he smelt the odor of multltudln-
o;ls chicken stew as it attacked his nos
frils from the direction Of Chinatown he
vented his hottest curses upon the sup
positive CclestialS who had ransicked
and plundered his hen-coop! There
was a natural and, as We hold, JUST !
fable longing for vengeance aroused
within his heart and he deliberately |!
planned piece of self-acting strategy
which should not only protect his fowls
but intlict merited punishment upon
such future coming robbers as might in
wade his Enclosure with criminal intent. |
His design was not an original one, but
none the less effective. He utilized |
long disregarded and much rusted pistol
of the horse variety and converted the
same into spring-gun. He carefully
charged this with powder and lead and
placed it where the next invader should
be blown past all chicken stealing. The
ath-GealinS-trap was only too soon |
and too fatally set at its direful work. |
1t wrought something more shocking |
than mere revenge something more Ia
mentable than a swift and merited retri |
button for as it is our painful duty to
relate, on the morning subsequent to the
placing of this avenging weapon in po-
sition where it would discharge its con-
tents into the stomach of whomsoever |
should attempt to open the door of the
SAID henery, the oldest remaining cock, |
bent upon asserting his proves and his |
domination over the females of his fam
lily, few with all his strength against the !
door and set it to swinging violently IN
the breezy air until it strained SO
hard upon the string which was set
upon the trigger of the pistol aforesaid,
that that weapon was discharged with a
tremendous and terrifying explosion-I
sending the death-deahng bullets not
into the body of mere worthless China
man, not into the head of any prowhng
hoodlum, but into the very heart and
brain of the two finest pullets which the
aforesaid marauders had neglected to
steal J! This story is only too true. We
withhold the names out of consideration
to the feelings of the victims of this
chapter of accidents.