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BREWS']'ER
RALD
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF AND TO THE "GATEWAY TO THE FAMOUS OKANOGAN COUNTRY".
VOME NO. 24.
COUGAR FACTS
BREWSTER, OKANOGAN COUNTY WASHINC.TON.
JANUARY 30, 1925
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VERSUS THEORY
The man killing cougar shot last
Wednesday afternoon near the scene
of the fatalaty wherein Jhnmy Fehl-
haber fell a victim to the rapacity
of this animal, will be placed ill the:
Smithsonian Institute at Washing-
ton D.C. The animal was skinned
last Saturday anti the bones were
saved along with the skin and the
whole thing will be sent to this Ins-
titute and mounted and labeled with
an appropriate label showing that it
is the very first and only authentic
"case in the annals of America where
a cougar had stacked and killed a
human being'. Of course there are
lmmber of cases where children
-have disappeared and the supposi-
tion is that they were c'arried away
and devoured by cougars, but they
were never prSvefl.
In this pa:ticular case of the Garr-
ett cougar shot by him last Wednes-
., day three miles from the repot where
,y, tmg Jimmy Fehlhaber lost his life
by this same beast was clearly proven
by the fact that the stomach of this
cougar was found to contain human
hair along with some horse hair, deer
hair, and rabbit fur, and some pieces
of bone shows conclusively ia the
minds of all thinking men that tills
is postively the male cougar that
killed the boy. The first thing that
entered tile minds of the Brewster
people was that the GarTett cougar
was the outlaw that had taken human
lif6• The first thing to be done was
of course to examine its stomach to
ascertain if there was a chance of
finding the hair. Mr. C. T. Peter-
son, a noted federal hunter, made tile
remark that if this was the man kill-
er it was more than likely that the
hair of his victim was still in its
§tomach." Mr. Pete,son was right
and it is a noted fact that an animal
of this kind retains hair in its stom-
ach for nmnths at a time as it is
very slo w to digest and is often re-
tained by the animal a long time.
This proved to be the case in this
particular animal for there was a
great mass of hair balled up in the
beast's stomach and among the differ-
ent' hair was long human hair the
same color as Jimmy Fehlhaber and
finger bones which clearly indicated
that it was the identical beast that
partly devoured the boy.
On first hearing the report that a
cougar was killed Wednesday morn-
ins and that the animal was on ex-
hibiti.an in Okanogan F. J. Clifford
immediately departed for that city de-
termined to have the animal examin-
ed. He took some pictures of it and
then tried to find out when the ani-
mal would be cut open anti examined
but strange to relate no ,one in the
town of Okanogan seemed to be in-
FOLKS
INOUR
TOWN
[ WHEN DAD WAS A BOY
terested. No one would take the
initiative. No one wanted be have
it examined. They often repeated
that it was nothing 'but a kitten and
there was no use of examining it. It
surely was some kitten three years
old and weighing some 89 pounds,
:being six feet ten inches long. Surely
some kitten. We are at a loss to
!understand the reluctance of the
i good people of the town of Okanogan
!to determine the guilt or innocence
<if this beast. They were apathetic.
They seemed to Mse all interest in
the matter after the word of Shuttle-
worth that he thought the Winthrop
cougar was the man killer. And
still Shuttleworth had no evidence to
go on. Just his bare assertion that
he thought the cougar killed at
Winthrop was the one. In fact the
Winthrop cougar was an old decrepit
animal and almost dead from starva-
tion. Strange as it may seem the
good people of Okanogan swallowed
this assertion in its entirety. They
cared for no further proof, while on
the other hand Mr. Clifford of this
dace 'felt all the time as .though the
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And Then
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Laughed
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Edward
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For l thcr pcoph_ . in the
surroundin,14" country came to see the
cougar that was on exhibition last
Frhlay at tlu Clifford Service Sta-
tion. It was killed Wednes ay morn-
ing near Olema by Chas. Garrett and
brought to Bre'ter b' F. J. Clifford i
to examine, and to see if it wus the
outlaw cougar, which proved to be l
the case. When the word was passed
around that they were ready to ex-
amine the stomach of the cougar t]ie
town people bgean to gather and
nearly every nlan tllid wonlan in the
town saw ttnd ',V(l'e convinced that it
was the cougar muchly sought. When
they saw the boy's imir they were all
msitive that the right beast had fi-
nally been killed.
I The question now :irises .'is to who
ts going to get'that which was collect-
ed to pay the party who wouhl get
the cougar? Some of the contribu-
tions were to be given to Shuttle-
[worth, Hihlebrand and Haley rcg'ard-
[less of the fact whether they got the
• cougar or not, while that which was
I collected at Wenatchee, as we under-
'stood it, was to be giwm for the pur-
Iose of rehnbursing the party who
'actually killed the cougar. If such
is the ease Mr. Garrett is entitled to
the pay.
"POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED".
eattle, Wash., Jan. 26, 1925
Dr. L. S. Dewey,
Coroner, Okanogan.
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Dr. Knudson, in charge of the zoo,
Garrett animal was the.guilty one and to jump conclusions. Some one made reports that hair and bone eaten by
as he could not get any encourage- a remark or expound a theory it is a cougar will be digested and eva-
meat from the people ,where the coug- then grasped by the unknowing ones 'uated within twenty-four hours.
ar was on exhibition he decided to and spread as gospel. The same STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
buy the carcass of this beast and have way with the cougar. Wor¢ 1 was Ye Gods and little fishes. What
it examined. He made an offer of stated by someone that nothing but straights the Independent has been
ten dllars to Mr. Garrett for the old and decrepit cougar would attack lput too in order to bolster up the
animal and it was sold to him at a human being. There never was lShuttleworth theory. They have evei
that fire(re. Parties went to Okan- a case wherein an old decrepit cougar,, roped in Dr. Dewey into controversy,
ogan from here and brought the ever (lid attack a human. But there or at least he must have sent to this
cougar down and kept it on exhibi
tion for one day at telePhone requests
from outlying districts to keep the
.nimal so that they could see it. This
was clone. "and many had the satis-
faction of or[wing the beast that had
killed its last human victim. Only
for Mr. Clifford the matter would
forever have been in dbubt, but now
thanks to him and his foresight to
leave no stone unturned to land the
guilty cougar, the doubt has been
removed and the people of Olema and
[hat vicinity are fully assured that
the guilty cougar has been found and
sent to the home of all good cougars.
Dead.
Too often the people are prone
o \\; ..)
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lllllltWlNG'li AND IINTE$D d,
_tN_._Trm ¢vev,
is ease after case where young cougar
have attacked children and have been
driven away before they killed its
victim but not so in the case of Jim-
my Fehlhaber who was in a lonely
canyon and his pitiful cries for help
went unheeded. It has been advanced
as a theroy and it looks very plaus-
ible that a cougar is of the same na-
ture to a great extent as a house
cat. Take for instance a young
kitten of the common house variety
and it will often chase young chick-
ens in a playful manner and if it hap-
pens to catch one of the little ings
it will immediately tear it to pieces.
The animal instinct to kill is supreme
it kills the chicken. The same with
the cougar it playfully sneaks up be-
hind its victim with perhaps no in-
tention of doing it any bodily harm.
The victim turns and sees the animal
trailing it and unthinkly starts to flee
and the animal instinct to
masters the cougar and he takel
the child and after once
hold of its victim the instinct
become paramount and it
tear its victim to pieces. The
cougar did not attack Jimmy
it was itungry. It was in goo(
tion. There was fat on its
der the skin and on its
had killed a deer a short
and it is reasonable to
it was either from curiosity 6:
fulness that it started to trail
Jimmy and as Jimmy started
as the tracks showed y the:
graphs taken of the scene
Clifford, tle; beast then
raging fu'y anti the desire
became uppermost and h#
to carry out its nature. This
has been expounded by good at
ity and by a man Who has seen'
of the wild life in the west.
all the facts now in oui"
bear out this theory.
doctor, Knudsou, for an opinion. The
statement sent in by Mr. Knudson to
the effect as appears above as far
[as an opinion goes to prove' anything
does not amount to much. To start '
with Mr. Knudson is a veternary.
We should judge from the above a
very poor one at that, if he will
allow such a statement as the above
g'o out as era[hating from him. If he
can prove that a cougar can digest
hair and bone in 24 hours he has
proven something that science has
never known before. Why it must
Thb merchant buys straw
winter. Prepare for that gard¢
Order your seeds.
Fire is a good servant,
an eye on the chimney. Have
der handy and own an extii
Get the incubator'[n-" shape
spring hatches.
Figure on your*l(me* -- now ill
not already in the ground.
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PUBLICITY
"rh Washing Month Publicity cam-
aig'n is practically over, but there
{s no need to stop the excellent pub-
Ucity work with the month of Jan.
uray is the word that comes to the
.lirectors ,oftlle campaign from Har-
{tin l. Peyton, State chairman :it Spo-
:alle.
"Personally I fe,l that the various
:rganizations are just getting a good
1art for 1925, and I would certain-.
ly hat(; t.o see all the sl)h:n,id work
(tie," Mr. Peyton advisesd the direct-
OI.'S.
"On my return from the east last
week, I had the privihge of cnfer-
ring with P.S. Eustis, Passenger
Traffic manager of the Burlington
raih'oad in Chicago,"Mr. Peyton con-
tinued. "Mr. Eustis and ther rail-
road officials appreciate the manner
in which the state of Washington en-
tered the Washington month cam-
paisa and feels that the results will
be beneficial to all concerned."
The Pacific Northwest Advertising'
campaign ran a series of advertise-
ments last summer calling attenti0P
to the opportunities awaiting- the Pa-
cific Northwest. The last ad appear-
e(l August 3, anti since then the rail-
roads have received amt answered
more than 50,000 direct inquiries,
which shows the people of the east
save the eoupons anti mail them
when they are in position to make, a
change.
"The lmnd of OpportunitpP book-
let is being advertised at the present
time, and during the first half of
November 1120 inquires were re-
ceived, 1624 the last half of that
mnth and 1824 came in the first 2
weeks of December, according to the
railroad officials. With this number
of people throughout the east look-
ing to the Pacific Nortiwest as their
future home, a gxeat era of prosper-
ity is just opening.
EXPERIENCE OF A
MAN WHO KNOWS
In the statement of the Independ-
ent of Tuesday, Jan. 27, under the
caption "Postitively Identified" and
signed by the State Board of Health
and purporting as coming from Dr.
KnudsQn, I wish to say that it is
either false or given thru ignorance.
No d.oubt Dr. Knudson bases his
conclusions on the study of animals
in captivity which bares no compar-
ison with those in a wild state. Habits
be a regular bene mill. We would land variation in food create a vast
like Mr. Knudson to tell us how many deal of difference in stomach content.
he has examined to find °ut [wThis°pini°nlisbased s' arfare on p 'edatorv ona contipual ammais lot
cougars
what they contain and what he base ] " ' '. '
his statement( on that they digest [twenty years, eighteen of which has
hair and bone in 24 hours. The [been with the government, bY the
Independent hates like sin t.o give [writer. I have personally e.xaml.td
I heoI Now the stomach contents of conslderab y
up the Shuttleworth t • 'y.
i.¢omeout of it, Mr. Independent. Give over a bumlred cougars.
. some foundation to base your[ In 1906 near North Bend, Wash-
, m ton I shot a eougal that had killed
ili] oil and not the unsupported I" g ,. " "
rd'of a horse doctor who has had[ a pig. In it's stomach wbs pieces of
' ' ' ork arts of a house-cat with hair
to bear ou lus assertion, but P , P
meat to the animals. It and bones (it had been killed some
Dr. Dewey Toul<l not lend two weeks previously,) deer-hair
},.to such an absurd state-
a cougar can digest hair
in 24 hours. We woukl
such a childish state-
the above to any paper for
regardless from k'hom we
received it.
wadded up with a piece of the hoof•
The animal had been down near the
setlement for some three weeks anti
couhl not kill deer as there were none
there. So much for the twenty four
hour theory of Dr. Knudon.
In conclusion, I will say that one
of the most important duties of pred-
ld like to
suggestion steps be
t.o make a real change
of the .office of
commissioners and pine-
control of game where all
of the states have put it,
(el.
a czar-like comissioner can
a citizen of another country
v mongrel pup and send them
a child-killing cougar and
the power of his office to
D. C. "
(Signed) C. T. Peterson
Government Predatory Animal Hunt-
er
OWNERS ARE
RESPONSIBLE ;+"
It has been decided that in cases
where property owners rent buildings
that the owners will be held respon-
sbile f.or tixd collection of thb water
rent. In many cases in the past, par-
the work of veteran hunters ties have rented property and failed
dned trail-hounds sent in by to pay for the water used and the
city has been left to hold the sack,
to get the animal,
hence the action taken is to prevent
it's time l:ara change and a
too. toss to the city for the lack of pay-
F. J. Clifford meut of water rent.