Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — A BADGER KILLED IN KANKAKEE [ARTICLE]

A BADGER KILLED IN KANKAKEE

, Animal la Unusual In Jasper County Weighed 40 Pounds. Just about daylight last Saturday morning, while F. W. Fisher of Kankakee township was building a fire in the kitchen range, the family dog was attracted to the barn lot where he set up considerable barking as though there was some animal there. Mr. Fisher paid little attention to it for a time, but finally went down to the lot and found that the dog and cattle had some animal in a corner of the wire fence which resumbled a woodchuck or groundhog, except that its nose turned up-, ward like a Berkshire hog, and a white stripe ran from the nose up through the forehead. The animal had the dog buffaloed, but Mr. Fisher, with the aid of a pitchfork, soon put it out of cammission. One of a gang of threshers, who came to his place that morning and had previously lived where this sort of animal Is more common, pronounced it a badger, which are rarely found in Jasper county. The animal had claws on its front feet about three inches in length and weighed about 40 pounds. Mr. Fisher will have the pelt tanned for a rug.