The Washington bee., 1896-04-25
ANIMAL NOTES.


Cal, recently two men shot 375 gray
and white geese.
Cougars are unusually and unpleas.
antly numerous in the neighborhood OF
Hope, Idaho. They are said to be rap
idly thinning out the deer in that re-
g:on and are causing much trouble to
stockmen.
A queer little fish is found in the
artesfan wells at San Marcos, Texas
The fish Is about four inches long, has
human face, hands and feet. A large
number of these are said to live on land
as we'll as in water.
A spaniel owned by Michael Kelly of
Brooklyn awoke his master the other
night in time for him to escape from a
burning house. The dog tore away a
piece of Kelly's shirt before he awoke
to find the room full Of smoke and the
quilt on his bed burning.
A twenty -nine-pound togue, the big
gest fish ever known to have been
caught in Moosehead Lake, Maine, was
hooked by guide few days ago. 1t
measured three feet four inches In
length, and Is thought to be the largest
speciment of the trout family ever
caught in Maine.
In four days hunting in Lincoln coun-
ty. Oregon, two huntsmen killed 113
geese, ninety-two ducks, and eight
sagehens. They said that Crab Creek
and Swamp Creek literally swarmed
with geese and ducks, and all hunter
had to do was to lie in tules and shoot
upward as the birds alighted around
him.
A devilfish, measuring fifteen and
one-half feet from the tip of one of its
eight arms to the tip of another and ten
feet from the top of its head to the tip
OF its longest arm, was killed in the
channel at Santa Barbara, Cal, by two
boys few days ago. 1t was the largest
dev:lfish ever caught in those waters.
A white coon that hasn't a dark hair
on its body is owned at Weiser, Idaho.
and is a kind of town pet. 1t has dis
tinguished itself by whipping all the
dogs in the neighborhood. and is sure
death to cats that stray into its vicinity.
It spends most of its time chained to
the sidewalk outside it's owners store.
At Cadillac, Mich, the other night
there was a fight between wildcat
and a bull dog. A crowd of men paid
81 each, it is said, to see the fight, and
witnessed one of the bloodiest battles
ever seen. After eleven hard-fought
rounds the dog broke the cats leg and
won the battle.
A white sea otter, whose pelt would
be worth quite $1,000, was seen by two
fishermen in the bay at Santa Cruz, Cal.
last week The men say there Is no
doubt whatever as to the identity Of the
animal. number of boats at once
set out to hunt for the otter, but at
last accounts had not caught it.
An unusually large octopus, with
eight arms, each measuring a little less
than six feet in length, was killed at
Alamenda, Cal, a few days ago. The
fish fastened its tentacles on a boat
which a fisherman was rowing In the
harbor. The man rowed his boat
ashore, the fish still clinging to it. and
killed the octopus with an oar.
An elephant that escaped from cir
Gus in a London suburb one night re-
Gently invaded a baker shop and ate
everything in sight, including two bags
of flour, weighing 280 pounds, twenty
pounds of currants, forteen cans or
raspberry jam, including the cans. four
| teen pounds Of raw almonds. and seven
pounds of lemon peel.
Twenty farmers brought the tails Of
9,171 ground squirrels to the commits
sioners of Spokane County Washing
ton. ON one day last week to collect the
| bounty of one cent per tail. One man
brought in 1884 squirrel tails and an
other LOSS. All the squirrels were kill
ed in one not large district, where they
are so thick as to almost make the
farmers despair of making any profit
by their crops.
A woman living at Lewiston, Me-, has
made a good del Of money during the
past year or so with a fine, large coon
cat She sold it last week for the sew
enth time for SO. This cat always comes
back, and its behavior while in the pos
session of any one but this woman is
such that the successive owners have
concluded that the trouble Of caring
for the cat is worth much more than
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