THE FARMINGTON TIMES — APRIL 25, 1912
HORNED RABBITS
Charlie Browne Horton, Kansas, who has always been skeptical as to horned rabbits, has been shown at last. And incidentally it remained for him to discover how there happens to be horned rabbits in Kansas. Marion T. Jones of Baker brought the head of a horned rabbit to Browne’s office the other day. He had seen statements in the paper that there was no such thing, and brought the head along so that he could show the editor that editors don’t know everything. He shot the rabbit on an island in the Missouri river, up near Rulo, Neb. The head had five little horns, prongs or growths, of some sort on it — two on the top, two at the side and one under the jaw. Otherwise it looked like any other rabbit. Jones accounts for this kind of rabbits by telling that years ago a wagon circus broke down up north of Falls City and that a bunch of horned rabbits brought over from Germany escaped. These have mingled with the native rabbits until the horned rabbit of to-day is the result.
From— The Farmington Times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.), 25 April 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
