THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE — JULY 15, 1910
E A G L E W H I P P E D B Y B I G R O O S T E R ♢ FIERCE BATTLE ON WASHINGTON FARM RESULTS IN VICTORY FOR CHICKEN ♢ [ Many Persons Attacked ] ♢ Fierce Birds Unusually Bold as They Hunt Food For Their Young—Men, Chickens and Animals Terrorized by the Vicious Fowl.
Seattle, Wash.—Eagles, busy gathering food for their young ones and flying down from their nests in the crags of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, are unusually daring. Instances are being reported where they have attacked men, women and children. They are also charged with carrying off lambs, pigs, dogs, cats and farmyard poultry. A month’s file of a local daily newspaper shows the following:
George Hartman, hunter, of North Yakima, Wash., attacked by maddened eagle and severely scratched and flesh torn. A stage coach driver near Hartford. Wash., attacked while sitting on his wagon and face badly torn by the big bird’s talons.
Farmers, near Brinnon declare they are losing much young stock by thieving eagles. More eagles are nesting in the foothills of the Olympics than ever before. The increased food supplies, consisting of the small farm animals is given as the cause of so many eagles.
A report from Mason county states that bald eagles are swooping down on farmyards and carrying off poutry, principally ducks and geese. A big rooster on a Mason county farm fought a fierce battle with a small eagle of some unknown species and won out, putting the marauder to flight.
