Piute Chieftain | 1916-09-21 | Page 8 | Catches Wary Fox by Tail

catches wary fox FOK by tall tail roswell wheeler fifteen years old of litchmond caught by the tall a fox that for ave ve years had eluded traps and bullets T Is old timer had bad raided hen roosts boosts summer and winter and several farm ors had offered rewards for his capture awakened by tho the crowing pt of his roosters early in the tha morning young wheeler arose before sunrise and with his dog scotty discovered reynard leaving the hennery wheeler also Is a strategist so scotty was sent to pursue the fox while ho he hid behind a huge pine treo tree near ny by As he expected reynard followed a furrow leading to the pine and when the fox unsuspectingly ran lan by wheeler grabbed him by the tall tail and held on A swing against the treo tree finished him the fox ts Is believed belt oved to have been ten years old lenox A mass rass Pis patch to new aorl awald