Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Unde Tom Bloodhounds Are Eaters [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Unde Tom Bloodhounds Are Eaters

ST. LOUIS.—Four large hounds, possessed of appetites commensurate with their size, are perplexing William U. Halbert, fit Belleville, public administrator of SL Clair county, Illinois. The dogs formerly belonged to an “Uncle Tom’B Cabin” show owned by E. C. Chunn, who died in East St. Louis several months ago, and Halbert says they rapidly are eating up all that is left of the estate. The hounds, each one of which stands a few hands shorter than a small pony, came by their appetites honestly, it would seem. For years they chased the elusive Eliza across the papier mache ice, always just a trifle too ,far« behind to sink their teeth in the persecuted young woman. After the show was closed they cried for Eliza for a while, but later signified they would "be satisfied with plain,'

ordinary beef, or something better. When Halbert first came into possession 1 of the dogs the rest of the estate of the one-time owner of the show was Intact, and he even could afford to buy porterhouse for the animals if they insisted on having it. Halbert hadn’t had charge of the estate long, however, when the dead owner’s father, J. C. Chunn, filed a claim for the personal effects of his son. These personal effects consisted of a passenger coach and scenery and other paraphernalia necessary to the show. Halbert fought the giving up of the y passenger coach with the idea that if the worst came to the worst he could house the hounds in it and ship them froin place to place that they might “board around” on their relatives. He lost the suit, however, and found himself the mortified possessor of the dogs, which, after the manner of their kind, lost no time in signifying they would be pleased to sit down to a good meal. So far they have cost him more than SIOO, and none of them has indicated he is ready,to get old and die or quit eating just because the novelty has worn off.