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Show MUST MUZZLE YOUR DOG ORPAY FINE BABIES IN COYOTES AND DOGS IN BEAVER COUNTY IS ALARMING County Attorney Parsons and Sheriff Sher-iff Fotheringham were in Milford for several days this week investigating prospective criminal cases. While here, the officers requested the News to again call attention to the prevalence pre-valence and the seriousness of the rabies among dogs and coyotes in this county. Only a few days since a "mad" coyote was killed in the town of Minersville, but not until the vicious animal had bitten several dogs that may at any time show symptoms of the dread disease. The state university univer-sity authorities report that they have received the head of a dog from this county, which upon examination has proven to have been a victim of rabies. J. H. Haycock has received word from the state bacteriologist that the coyote head sent in by Mr. Haycock Hay-cock from Dead Horse Hills was a case of rabies. This coyote was running amuck through a herd of sheep when killed. "There is a county ordinance" said the officers, "which makes it unlawful un-lawful for owners of dogs to permit ihem to go about unmuzzled. . That ordinance has never been revealed, and what is more to the point, we are going to insist upon the law's enforcement." The law makes the possession of an unmuzzled dog a misdemeanor and' attaches a severe penalty. There have been a number of cattle, cat-tle, sheep and horses and even people attacked by the disease crazed animals ani-mals and very vigorous means should bo employed to stamp out the danger. |