Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — RULES AGAINST KANGAROOS [ARTICLE]

RULES AGAINST KANGAROOS

United States Experts Rule Tiny Arrivals at San Francisco Are ~ Deer. San Francisco, .Cal.—Eight tiny tame kangaroos less than 12 Inches tall and yet full grown have been held as undesirable aliens by experts of the department of agriculture on the ground that they are deer. They have heads like deer. Hie animals are the property of K. N. Painter of New York, who, with his wife, arrived on the Tenyo Maru from the Orient He bought them In Singapore, where they had lost arrived from Australia. “There are no animals like them in the country,” said Painter. "The law was passed with intent to protect our domestic stock /'rom intestinal complaints common to Asiatic furred animals.” - 7^l