Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1913 — KICKED A COYOTE TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

KICKED A COYOTE TO DEATH

Eight Have Fallen %efo.re Kansas Lad —-One Was Blain With the Leg Bone of a Cow. Santa Fe, Kan. —Ray Ward has killed another coyote. Ward, who is fifteen years old, is Haskell county’s prize coyote slayer. He sprang into (the limelight a few weeks ago when he killed his first coyote by chasing It down on his cow pony and in a desperate struggle killing it with the thigh bone of a cow,.taken from a pile of bones lying nearby on the prairie. Since then be has killed eight of the beasts, chasing each until it was exhausted. The second victim was kicked to death. In the last chase Ray was armed with a rifle. When the coyote fell exhausted on the prairie the boy dismounted to shoot it. He was so nervous from the exciting chase he was afraid to trust his unsteady aim, so be clubbed the animal to death with the gun stock. Since killing his -firdt coyote the lad has had letters from all ovdr the United States. Some of the writers extend congratulations, others want further particulars, one wants a job on the Ward ranch and two seek to trace relationship, one of whom proved to be an aunt whose whereabouts has been unknown to the Ward family for. more than ten years.