Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — CHASED BY WILD DOGS [ARTICLE]

CHASED BY WILD DOGS

Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape from aa Awful Fate. Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, Miaa Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheep man living on Birch creek, near Havre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then with a rifle. Mka Sullivan waa riding her pony across the prairie when she eaw, some distance away, pefhaps twenty animals, which at first glance she took to he coyotes. Aa they came nearer, evidently in pursuit of her, the girl saw they were aot coyote*, but wild dogs, of which there are several small packs in northern Montana and jnat aver the Canadian line. It became a ride for life with Miss Sullivan. She had with her a small rifle, but the animals teemed to savage she dared not atop and give them battle. Ae She began to despair of escaping she sighted the old sheep corral, and toward this she ran her horse, reaching it only when the pack waa hot a short distance away. To enter with the pony and quickly close tbe gate waa the work of a moment. Snapping and snarling, the dogs tore *t the poles forming the atockade, bat were enable to gain an entrance. The girl began shooting at the animals, which retreated when she fired and returned to the attack when the rifle was silent. Mips Sullivan was found the next morning by her father and brother, who had been seeking her.