The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
MORE AnoUr RLUEJAYs.

Ed. CHIEF:-Clodhopper and ''veritas' each deserve
leather medals for tn cir gallant championship Of birds
prey in last weeks paper. The next thing may
look for suppose win be articles in defence of the In
QUESTION, Cagua Pope Alexander VI, Nero, James H.
Of England Marat John A Murrell, JEFF Davis, John
Calvin chickenhavks turkeybuzzards crows owls tar.
antuas. copperheads SC, sc. The fact is it appears
there any of St Bartholomew ALL
Those 20 900 people all died simultaneously just for their
own amusement-and the glory of Christianity And
to the blue jay being nestrobber it's only an Indel e
got up by scientists Moses says nothing about the
bueay being bird of prey and therefore the conclusion
is inevitable that he That settles the hashat least
with "Clodhopper."
But 1t does settle with the nine out Of every ten
and boys who have witnessed the bueays raids up
on birds nests well upon young birds after having
left the nest and noticed the alarms given and the imme
date rally the birds to make cause and defeat
the thirsty and nearOus attempts
Very likely ClOdhopper has his dear friend
the blueay committing depredations. Perhaps he did
not witness the of Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln.
Yet that Circumstance is better aeed than is the
act Of the blueay being perdious sneaking nestrob
ber The testimony Of thousand men who had not seen
the blueay do wrong not equal to one who had can
give the names of less than eight about Troy
who have had the evidence Of their convince
them that the buejay Is hawk among birsthat he is
freebooter and pirate.
Dallas of the best ornithologists in the world
the geological editor of the Circle Of the Sciences says
Like his European relative the American bueay is adj
dieed TO robbng the of other birds and sucking
their eggs; and Wilson mentions having one for
more than hve minutes in active pursuit of small bird
which, however, ultimately escaped"
Chambers Encyclopedia, a standard work, as reliable
as webster on-abridge" says of the bluejays They
are nhabitants OF Europe Asia and North Americas and
feed more on fruits and buds than and magpes gen
orally do but they have the OmnverOus character of the
rest OF the crow family and often rob the Of other
birds whether containing young In England and
Scotland less common than consequence
Of the ineessant war which has been waged against it,
both by gamekeepers and the Legislature itself an Eng
sh statute having authorized granduries to eer three
pence bounty per head for killing thom.'
Other authorities might be quoted to the same effect but
as Scotts Commentaries unfortunately silent on the
subject, have no hope of converting "Clodhopper"
If our Legislature will Winter proclaim bounty
of i've cents per head for the killing of crows hawks
shrikes and bueays and penalty $50 fine or thirty
days in Jail for the killing of any other bird am sure we
will have abundance of birds-a cousummaton de
vouty TO be wished.
As for ClodhOppers" Ominous threat of hanging per-
who gnorany otherwise stray upon his land and
shoot bluejayst is very humane in him substitute
that in place ofhe usual Christian remedy-burnng at
the stake 1t is to be hoped however that upon
reflection he will still further modify the punishment to
the Puritanic touch Of whipping branding cutting of
the ears. -