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Show Trapper Battles Coyote With Lynx as Weapon IF GEORGE G. STANSITELT) of Salina happens to be attacked by a coyote again, anything ho happens to havo in his hand will serve us a weapon. This was demonstrated by Stausfield three weeks ago, on a mesa about seven miles from Salina. This became known vesterday when he visited the office of Dr. T. B. Beatty1 stato health commissioner, to see if preventive pre-ventive treatment against hydrophobia hydro-phobia were advisable. He was assurod it would be better bet-ter to be on tho safe side, and a telegram was sent to Washington for a supply of the pasteur preventive preven-tive treatment, which will be hero in three or four days. Stansfield is a hunter and trapper trap-per employed by the stale. He was making the round of his traps three weeits ago aud found the lvnx iu one of them. lie wus carrying tho carcass to tho no.t trap when ho was attacked by a covote. It is unusual for a covote to attack a mau, unless rabid, but. this one had been caught, in a trap bv part, of the foot and had effected its liberation lib-eration by guaxviuj; cf jts (o It may have been craved bv p:liu result1'0 a-kod the .nan as a h-ain8i?1, V",,xl1wt0,,b- attacked, whirled tho lynx at the covote which fastened its- teeth in' tho body. Stansfield seized the era-i'mmnl era-i'mmnl by the back of the neck To!" S,0''.'K ,f.;r a time. Then ho" loosed ls hold to tiud a club. The eovoio Int. Slansfiehl several times bet ore it was killed Stansfield sent, the head to (ho sta e hves ock board, but. owing u, u delay, the shipment, was too' decomposed de-composed lor examination when i was brought from ll, (,,t is not. dctuutelv known, therefore. vyietW the an,,,,,,! was a M.,im |