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Show RABID COW IS DISCOVERED JU ELKO Stories brought in by some of the jurymen prove that the rabies is raging rag-ing worse in the northern part of tho county than has boen supposed down here. The latest of tho stories is about a rabid cow which was discovered discov-ered by a miner who was returning from his work near Divide. Ho was walking home at the end of his day's work when he was attacked by a cow wmen was undoubtedly rabid; she came after him furiously, with her jaws covered with foam and her eves bulging out, and her nostrils wildly distended, and tho man decided that discret'on would bo the 'better part of valor, so he Immediately fled. But his flight was in vain, there Tvas no chance to escape and so he stopped on a small mound of earth raised his miner's pick and struck tho cow in the center of the forehead be- f I tween the horns. At this the rabid ' m animal staggered, fell upon Its knees, " but before he could repeat the blow, 5 the cow rose and ran wildly towards . ffi a shelter not far off. ' f There were those in the settlement um who doubted the miner's story, despite r ffi the blood upon his pick, and they went I fr out to the scene of the fight. Not far i " from the place where the encounter ' "JJ had occurred, they found the body of i V the dead animal, with a pick hole ia J fc its forehead. There Is no doubt 'that -i d the animal was rabid, for ordinary Bt cows, even on the open range do not 'wl risk their lives to attack humans. i Last week there was a story of a J lev' rabid coyote breaking through a hole fflM in a tent near Gold Circle and biting a l& man who was asleep In the tent there, v j-v There were persons In this community ! i who read this story and who were etc. kind enough to say that it was a fish 5 w story and that about half of what was & printed about the rabies is manufac- : 0m tured. Well, 'be that as It mav. thfr ? z. are members of the jury who wera ; dft there shortly after the man was bitten ' n by the coyote and saw the animal af- f T 2 ter it had been shot. The animal : JJ forced Its way into a bunk tent where a some men were sleeping. It began to I , -1 claw at the cols and one man raised '. "i1 up in bed. The coyote grabbed tho ' ?! man on the mouth, inflicting several ' 5. ugly wounds, but the man finally . " shook him off and dived down under ': ? the covers. ' Ml Another sleeper was aroused by the 5j noise, and reached under his bed and ( '? raised up to shoot the coyote. The ' animal, angry at the intrusion of the Ll third party, started at him and at- : 1 tempted to bite him, but the man rammed the pistol down the coyote's : CoJi throat. The pistol, however, refused ' to'I to explode and the animal dashed out ; iel tho same hole he had made. Another '; Mti man, alarmed by tho noise came up ) jj and shot the animal. The'man who 1! jfe had been bitten was sent to Reno for 1 ftfi treatment Elko Free Press. t. |
