The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-12-19

FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS


Charles Herman, a zoo keeper at
the Washington park in Portland, had a
thrilling battle with mammoh Golden
eagle there last week. He almost lost
his eyes in the encounter and his face
was terribly lacerated by the talons of
the big bird.
Herman was on his daily rounds of
the zoo feeding the animals and birds.
He entered the eagles cage with a
quantity of meat and was depositing il
in the eating trough when the big
eagle, which had been sitting on his
perch high in the cage, pouneed down
upon Herrman's head, fastening its
talons in the keepers scalp and began
to beat his head with its ponderous
wings and strike with its sharp beak.
Taken at this disadvantage Herman
attempted to shake off the eagle, but
so securely had the bird fastened itself
to his head and clothing that he found
it impossible. The harder Herman
fought the more vicious became the
attacks of the bird and the keeper was
getting decidedly the worst of the
combat. Finally Herman spied a
heavy broom in the bottom of the cage,
and grasping this he began to beat the
eagle over the back and wings, and
after much struggling finally succeeded
in landing blow on the head of the
bird. The blow stunned ii and it re-
laxed its grip and fluttered to the bot
tom of the cage, where it appeared to
be dead.
The citizens of the Belmont district
had most exciting bear hunt week
before last. The hunt was not for the
bear, for bruin came meekly down
from the mountains and got himself
caught in a trap set by d. V. Dixon.
However, all of the neighbors Joined
Mr.. Dixon in a hunt for a gun to kill
the beast after his roars of rage were
heard in the vicinity. A rifle was dis
covered and.with sixteen or seventeen
of the citizens of the district looking
on poor bruin paid the penalty of his
carelessness.
when | was a boy" says A. j.
Vellim, of the Heights, "a number of
companions and | were digging out a
fox den near my old home in the middle
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side and after we had dug for about 10
feet, we found that it turned upward,
forming dry sleeping chamber for the
animals. After we had dug nearly to
the end two old foxes, trying to es-
cape, jumped out. They were caught
by couple of gamy little terriers that
we had with US.
Thinking that there were no more
animals in the den, we were about to
desist from our task, when one of the
terriers, having worried one of the old
foxes to his hearts content, came back
and began to dig in the den. In mo-
meEt he brought out alternating rat
tie snake, prairie dog, two prairie
owls and two baby foxes. The owls,
snake and prairie dog, however, were
in a separate chamber from that inhab-
tied by the foxes"
Fred Stanley, president of the Fisrt
National bank, who was here Saturday
on business, tells a good story of the
hogs that have developed reputation
down around Yaquina. 1t seems that
the orchardsts there have not picked
their apples this year. The trees are
loaded and the swine have been turned
in to eat them. When hogs stomach
becomes empty his brain begins to
work, and as soon as the fallen apples
were cleaned up the pigs began to fig
ure out some means of gettingthe fruit
on the trees. 1t wasn't long until a
scheme was terminated in the porky
brains and was put into effect, and
now the hogs may be seen hurting
themselves with all their piggy nights
against the trunks of the apple trees,
shaking down the fruit.
Chicken dinner 80 cents at the Hotel
Oregon from 1 30 to 9 O'clock Satnr.