Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — KILLED 21.000 SQUIRRELS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLED 21.000 SQUIRRELS.

Freeman Biggs, a Nimrod Who Bought a Farm with Proceeds of Their Pelts. Freeman Biggs, of Hutton Township, eight miles from Charleston, 111., carries the scalps of 21,000 squirrels at his belt, so to speak. As his reputation for truth and veracity is good his neighbors do not dispute his claim that he has slaughtered 500 deer, 300 wild turkeys, and more prairie chickens than he had time to count. This mighty Nimrod is 71 years old and his sight is just as good as ever, so good, in fact, that if the bullet from the rifle he has carried for many years fails to strike Mr. Squirrel between the eyes he will hardly throw the animal in his gamebag—and squirrels are worth from 12} to 15 cents. For thirty-five years “Freem” Biggs has hunted “bush tails,” and the proceeds of his accurate aim have bought a fine farm on which he reared a family of ten childen. For the last thirty-five

years he has done business exclusively with the squirrels, and modestly estimates that on an average he has sold about 600 a year.

FREEMAN BIGGS.