The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09
\ iMiilR. MARTIN
AND THE FOX
A REMARKABLE CASE OF sus-
PENDED ANIMATION.
Natural Gas Discovered Near Hall
stead-visit of the Alumni Club.
New Locomotives for the Erie.
Coal Miners Chop Wood at Gibson.
Honesdale Editors Beat the Air.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Susquehanna, July 6.--One morning
recently Farmer Martin of Burnwood
going into his chicken park found fox
lying dead on the ground. The anil
NAL seemed to have Just died, and
Martins first impulse was to take him
by the tail and throw him over the
fence. He concluded, however, to take
Il to the house, show 1t to the family,
and then skin 1t. His wife laid 1t in her
lap for a while and remarked that the
body was still warm and the children
patted it and pitied 1t for some time.
Suddenly some one opened a window
and like flash the fox leaped from
Mrs. Martins lap and bounded for the
window. He fell about an inch short
and the window was closed After
some lively chasing about the house
Reynard was caught, and in few
days became quite docile.
Farmer Woodson, too, has had a
queer experience while out hunting
above the cascade. A fox that had
given him a lively chase, ran down a
steep hill and dashed toward the Sus-
uuehanna river, where boat was lying
loosely on the shore. The force of its
jump sent the craft out into the stream
and when Woodson came UP the boat
was in the middle of the river floating
with the current.
In the boat, standing on the seat In
the stern, was the fox, gazing back at
his baff1ed pursuer with evident satis-
faction. Woodson discovered another
boat on the shore, and, pushing 1t Off,
padded after the boat that was bear
ing the fox away. The foX's boat was
gradually being carried by the current
nearer the opposite shore, and by the
time the hunter in his boat was half
way from the starting point the fox's
boaot was within a rod of the Lanes
boro shore.
This seemed to be about as much as
the fox cared to ask for and he jumped
overheard and swan ashore. By the
time Woodson reached the shore the
fox was mile away.
NEWS MATTERS.
The funeral of the late Michael j.
Ryan took place and was largely at
tended on Saturday morning from ST.
Johns Catholic church, where requiem
high mass was celebrated. Erie Hose
company No. l and the Knights of
Columbus attended in a body. Inter-
ment was made in Laurel Hill ceme-
terry.
The Susquehanna Stars and the Great
Bend team will play ball in Great Bend
on Friday next. Hoover, of Bingham
ton, will do the pitch act for the Bend
ers.
At Deep Hollow, two miles from Hall
stead, men prospecting for water, en-
countered gas at a depth of $50 feet. A
derrick has been erected, and the earth
will be jabbed for gas, coal and oil.
There's great change in school prin-
cipals throughout Susquehanna county.
The annual encampment of the Sus-
quehanna County Veteran association
will be held at Montrose, September 2,
and 4. 1t appears to be Montrose
affair this year.
Edward j. Matthews, of Susquehan-
ma, is prominent candidate for rep
resentative. He has not established a
literary bureau, nor is he sending up
any fireworks, but. all the same, he
has the assurance of the support Of
many of the prominent Republicans in
the county. He would make an able,
faithful, business legislator
JUST BETWEEN US.
The latest "slot" invention,
Just got up for a lark,
Is the sausage; drop nickel in