Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — A Dog Speculation. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Speculation.

Our townsman, Barney Koezema, has had some more hard luck. A few days ago he went to Chicago as an escort and guard of honor to a big stall-fed yellow dog, of the mastiff breed, and which he had fed and fattened all winter, with the idea of selling him for a fancy price in Chicago. He had hardly reached that city when his dbg seized a poodle, belonging to another man and bit it badly. The owner of the poodle called a policeman, and Barney handed over $4 to the poodle’s owner rathen than be arrested. Barney and the dog then went their way. He kept the dog in the city several days and finally sold him for a dollar and came home, resolved to retire from the business of raising heavy-draft dogs for the Chicago market.