Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — PICKS MONEY FROM A TREE [ARTICLE]

PICKS MONEY FROM A TREE

Kansas Lad Turned 644 Crow Heads Into $32.20 Bounty—Used Rabbits as Lure. Cottonwood Falls, Kan.—A farmer boy of Matfleld, near here, knows how to pick money from an elm shade tree. ’ He made several big trees near his home yield him a golden harvest in one week. The treeff have long been a faVoffte haunt for scores of crows. Each evening their limbs were black with birds. The county pays a bounty of five cents on every crow killed. George Golden had an idea come to him and he walked out of the county clerk’s office with a check for $32.20, the bounty for 644 crows’ heads. i ■ Golden had shot some of the birds and when that became too slow he put strychnine in the carcasses of rabbits he had killed.