Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1913 — KLONDIKE REDMEN CAPTURE RED FOX [ARTICLE]

KLONDIKE REDMEN CAPTURE RED FOX

Neither Guns Nor Dogs Used in Chase in Tippecanoe County Friday Morning.

Lafayette, Ind., Dee. 26.—More than 1,000 men and boys today took part in a fox drive which was under the auspices of the Klondike Tribe of Red Men. At the roundup 500 pensions were present. ‘ The lines started at 9 o’clock in the morning and closed at noon. It was just before the lines came together that Emery Brown, of Lafayette, captured one big red fox The animal was first sighted on Edward Rawles’ farm, near Octagon. Three other foxes were sighted but they succeeded in getting through Jhe lines. Mounted marshals had charge of the lines and guards kept the crowd back from the roundup grounds, in Henry Klinker’s meadow. After the roundup, the fox that was captured was turned loose within the circle and was captured a second time; The fox, which was a large one, was then killed and the pelt will be placed in the Red Men’s hall, tn the drive no dogs or guns were allowed, the participants depending entirely upon sticks, with which they beat the grass and bushes to drive out the foxes.