Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — Lives of Totten and Tolin Saved by “Hook ’em Cows.” [ARTICLE]

Lives of Totten and Tolin Saved by “Hook ’em Cows.”

Members of the “Hook ’em Cows’’ order at the South St. Paul (Minn.) stockyards, had sport with two Hoosiers recently, according to the South St. Paul Reporter. The victims were J. J. Totten of Fairland, Ind., and A. B. Tolin of Fair Oaks, Ind. The Reporter says: “Mr. Totten and Air. Tolin drifted into St. Paul without the password and without carnival emblems. They did not immediately grasp the carnival spirit, and were captured and •placed under arrest by King Boreas and bis aids. Within a few minutes it developed that, iu addition to other offenses, the prisoners were members of the Sacred Order of Baldheads. This so incensed the king that he summoned his aids and, after a short consultation, the captives were ordered beheaded. Before the order could be carried out the king learned that his prisoners were closely affiliated with members of the Hook ’em Cows, one of his most loyal bands. The king then reeinded his order and Issued ! a proclamation that they be done to death with kindness on condition, to which they readily agreed, that they purchase a train of South rit. Paul’s famous cattle, take them to Indiana, fatten and- keep them in condition to kill for any subject of King Boreas that might happen to i drift that way.”