The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-29
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Note-With this issue the Live Wir,
Sparks will suspend publication. Nh
A. s. Goss, who has edited the col
umn and who has made it one of TIL,
most interesting departments of TIN,
paper finds that the responsibilities o.
farm life at this time of year are tot
great to admit of his continuing this
column. In other words it has become
necessary for him to choose between
pushing the pillow and pushing the
pencil and he has deemed it the part
of good farmer to choose the for.
mer.
It is with not little regret that the
COurier-Rep0rter announces the dis.
continuance of this column and in
so doing it wishes to express it's ap.
probation of Mr.. G0ss' efforts in the
papers behalf and to thank the Val
ley folk for their cooperation in max
ing the Live Wire column a success.
We hope to be able at some later date
to revive the column and in the mean
time shall endeavor to keep our read
ers advised as to the happenings in
the Finley neighborhood thru our reg
ular Finley correspondent.
Our state Of unpreparedness has
been held by many as responsible for
Germany's submarine policy. If this
is true, could Kaiser Wilhelm have
been around Finley Tuesday evening,
he would have had his eyes opened.
About five o'clock while A. Burns was
busy pruning down in his orchard,
coyote appeared on the scene and at
tackled his dogs, finally making off
across the ditch with Henry Kramer
hot on his trail. Kramer failed to
catch up with him, however, and it is
presumed that it was this same coyote
that appeared in. Bill Tewalt's yard
about $3.50 and attacked two dogs
right at the kitchen door. After
chewing them up sufficiently Mr.. Coy
ote took himself to the barnyard to
look for bigger game. Mrs. Tewalt
saw it all-in fact it happened almost
under her feet, and rushing to the
phone she played the part Of the mo-
dern Paul Revere and summoned all
the neighbors to meet in the Goss COW
pasture whittier the mad coyote had
taken himself. Like the Minute men
OF old, the farmers appeared as if by
magic armed with 22s, 32s, 38s, 45-70s
shot guns, field guns, siege guns and
pistols, Of every make, shape, style
and description, all prepared to do
their duty and slowly this magic ar
my closed in on the unfortunate coy
ote only to find that he had escaped.
Determined not to have rabid coy
ote at large in the neighborhood, the
army broke into several different par
ties and searched the country till dark
but the only results were that Glen
Hitchcock shot a rabbit and Cam
Bowles bagged cat. Mr.. Coyote got
away.
The incident serves to remind us Of
the danger Of the epidemic of hydro
phobia which we are having. Without
mentioning the greatest danger, the
danger to human life, it is safe to say
that there was $4,000 worth of live
stock within a few feet of where this
rabid coyote is known to have been.
In the short space Of half an hour he
was seen to bite four dogs and no ona
knows how many more he attacked,
and rabid dog is ten times as dan
gerous as rabid coyote, for he is al
most sure to be around people and
stock when his turn comes, and the !.
loss is almost sure to run high. One
lay recently we counted twelve dogs
On the road between Finley and Ken
newick, nine Of which were unmuzzled.
And we believe the per cent Of un-
muzzled dogs in the country is even !,
greater than seventy-five per cent.
People are not taking the muzzlinp
order seriously enough. It either
means lots of work for the owners or
zeal cruelty to the dog, but dog own
us should remember, first, that it is
'nly by just such strict measures that
We can hope to rid the country of this
,rave menace, and, second, that they
'ren't the ones who are taking all the
'hances-that they are willfully ex-
losing their neighbors to risk. I'm
nuzzled dogs are even allowed to play
lround the school grounds every day. n
Ne may seem too radical but it is our :
'elief that any dog owner who COM
lines such utter disregard for the law e
With such complete Indifference to the d
afety of children should be brought a
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