Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1914 — MOTOR RACE WITH COYOTE [ARTICLE]

MOTOR RACE WITH COYOTE

Animal Kept Lead for a Mile but Propped, Exhausted and was \T~ Captured. Los Angeles, Cal.—ln a thrilling race between a tour cylinder automobile speeding at thirty miles an hour and a young coyote in the Santa Inez valley, the animal lost to the driver of the big machine and became a captive at the home of B. F. Coons. It was brought to this city in a cage and an effort made to domesticate it The animal failed to escape only through sheer exhaustion after It had maintained a lead for nearly a mile. Mr. Coons was Inspecting a ten thousand acre tract in Santa Barbara county when the contest in occurred. His son wasf in the driver’s seat “For almost a mile we turned the machine loose for all its speed, but the coyote kept in advance, and for a time appeared to be gaining,” said Mr. Coons. “Once it stopped suddenly, as if to let us pass and escape before we could turn, but .we slowed down In time. Instantly it took a new start and went like the wind ahead of us. “We saw that the exertion was proving too much for the animal, and It slowed down and fell panting on 'the edge of the road. It recovered In a short time, however, and attempted to fight, but we muzzled It with a piece of rubber tire. We will try to tame it, and if we are not successful It will be given to one of the parks.”