An interesting story of Nuka Bay
happenings is related to The Gate
way by Mrs. Pete Sather who writes
that every night during the week
before Christmas something kept
frightening her rabbits and Mr. and
Mrs. Sather kept a vigilant watch
but were unable to ascertain the
cause of the disturbance.
“Christmas mcrnlng,” writes Mrs.
Sather, “I awoke because of an
awful commotion. The male rabbit
was bounding around in his pen
with all the might he had. 1 went |
to the window and in the moon
light saw a large horned owl was
killing my mother rabbit, the one
I got from Mrs. Coulter, in Seward,
last June end which rabbit has
mothered 19 baby rabbits since.”
Mrs. Sather immediately aroused
Mr. Sather and he took a shotgun,
ran out and shot at the fleeing owl
which bed been warned by Mrs.
Sather’s first outcry. Mr. Sather
picked up the wounded rabbit and
gave him to Mrs. Sather who was
sorrowing because her pet rabbit
was almost dead. The rabbit had
two holes in his head and neck
where the owl had pecked at it in
an effort to kill it. Mrs. Sather
went to her medicine cabinet and
brought out a bottle of Rexall rub- i
bing oil and doctored the rabbit. !
Mrs. Sather adds that “the next
night Mr. Sather was sleeping on ,
the couch and I was watching for ;
the horned owl and listening to j
the radio. About 8 o’clock, as the j
moon was coming over the chicken j
house, I looked out an dsaw a large {
bird sitting atop the chicken house ;
roof in the snow.” Mrs. Sather j
awoke Mr. Sather and told him to !
hurry as the owl was back.
Mr. Sather went out with the
.shotgun and downed the big bird
with one shot. As Mr. Sather came ;
in he said that the bird was not so
large but awful heavy. When he
came into the light, what kind of
a bird do you suppose he had? ;
When he shot the bird on the roof.
top, Mr. Sather had killed Mrs.
Sather’s best egg-laying hen. As j
the hen would have froze to death
on its lofty and cold perch the in- !
cidenl was merely laughed at and j
_t was decided that the hen would ;
make an excellent New Year’s din
ner.
The next night the owl came j
again and perched atop an iron
pipe high on a tree near the home,
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j evidently attracted back by the
j prospect of securing one of the rab
| bits or perhaps a chicken,
j Mr. Sather again took his shot
i gun and went out into the yard
and by using good judgment in the
! dark night, succeeded in bringing
| the bird down with the first shot.
The dead owl proved to be a very
large one, being a member of the
Arctic horned owl variety. The owl
was stuffed by Mrs. Sather.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Sather are
jubilant over the fact that they
finally killed the owl, as the num
ber of foxes which it probably
killed is unknown and its future
depredations halted.
The mother rabbit which the owl
first attacked is now' well and is
bounding around in his pen more
energetically than ever.
RUSSIA FEELS SHE
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IN CHINS RSILRH ZONE
TOKYO, Jan. 18. (/P)—The gov- j
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connection pact of non-aggression !
such as Russia signed with several
European countries but the nego
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In northern Manchurian, Japan
appears to be working through
Chinese agencies to consolidate her
gains but military operations are
continuing.
Russia is reported as feeling
some concern about her holdings
in the Chinese Eastern Railway
zone.
Jesse Lee Home boys have shov
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also to the Porcupine cut-off, mak
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WITH THE ANGELS
Hash, speak softly, you people of
Seward,
For the soul of a great man has
fled.
It was wafted on high by the an
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To dwell in the home of the dead.
Come hither awhile, ye worldlings,
Puffed up with the follies of life;
Just list to the songs of the angels,
They are crowning Fred John
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AIMA GRANT,Author.
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Comfort those who have Just had
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May then* pangs of hurt soon
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*\s they wake on each new morrow,
Let them Thy great Presence feel.
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j invoking the Nine-Power Treaty in
the Manchurian conflict by declar
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j maintained in Manchuria. The re
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