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Show RABID COYOTE KILLED BY DOGS IN IDAHO Salt Lake, Nov. 23. Sergeant C. W. Olson of the Salt Lake police department depart-ment received a letter from his sou, Fred Olson, who drives a mail wagon between Strevell and Bridge, yesterday, yester-day, stating that he believed his dogs' had killed a rabid coyote. While making the run between the two points the coyote ' appeared, and I two dogs, accompanying Olson, imme-1 dlately offered fight They succeeded in battling the animal into submission. "While the coyoto was lying on the ground, after the dogs had apparently finished fighting, Olson poked it with a stick to see if it was dead. The coyote immediately leaped at the stick i and broke it in two. The two dog3 , then resumed a fight with the animal and killed it. Tho head of the coyote has been sent to Boise, Idaho, for examination, to determine whether the animal was afflicted with rabies. |