March 29, 2018
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
Leona
Garrison, who works in our Research Center at the Museum shared this story from
the J.C. Republic newspaper of
1906. The article was titled “A Wild Cow.”
This is what was in the article: “Monday afternoon James Dixon, from northwest
of the city was driving in a cow for the Coryell and Powers market and when near
the U.P. Depot, she became unruly and made wild charges at everyone that was in
sight. The cow got Henry Lichtenhan, Jr.
between her and a building and “rolled” him, bruising him slightly then made a
pass at some other parties who got out of the way. The cow caught sight of a tramp who came out
of one of the buildings and before he could be induced to get back into the
building she had hooked him catching her horn just above his knee and tearing
his leg open nearly to the hip. He was
brought up town and taken to the police court where his wounds were attended to
and as he was without funds, he was sent to the poor farm for safekeeping. He was so drunk when the accident occurred
that it was with difficulty he was gotten out of the mad cow’s way after he was
hurt. She was finally roped and tied, and
it was found necessary to kill her where she was tied.”
Well… thanks
again for reading “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical
Society.
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