Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1890 — A Monster Eagle or a Monster --. [ARTICLE]

A Monster Eagle or a Monster --.

The Sutter City (CaL) Enterprise was chosen as the organ for the following remarkable story: “M. DeCosta, who is hunting game for the market some two miles west of town, informed the Enterprise that on Tuesday about 11 o’clock a large eagle, which no doubt has its home in the highest crevices of the Buttes, suddenly swodped down on a wounded goose which the gentleman had tied as decoy with a rope attached to the bow of a light duck bo it or double-ender and rose up Th the air with the goose and boat to a height of twenty feet, when the rope gave way, the oo it falling across the fence, completely demolishing it The eagle measured eight feet from tip to tip. Mr. DeCosta further stated that he could easily have killed the bird, but concluded that a bird that showed such game qualities should be allowed to part unmolested. No doubt the recent storm drove the eagle from its usual haunts in search of food.