Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Wild Beasts Kill Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Wild Beasts Kill Cattle.

A pair of strange and ferocious animals, which may be tigers or leopards escaped from some circus, are terrorizing the farmers In the vicinity of Agency, Mo. Several hundred head of calves and pigs have been killed and partially devoured and no amount of vigilance on the part of the natives has proved successful in efforts at capture. J. H. King and W. H. Orwick, who own some of the finest herds of Holstein cattle in the world, have suffered to, the extent of several thousands of dollars by reason of the raids of these beasts upon the herds of blooded stock. Large rewards are offered by the farmers and the county court. Bloodhounds from Nebraska set upon the trail found their prey, but were so speedily dispatched by the beasts that further efforts at capture with the use of hounds are abandoned.