After reading the above beautifully modest and truthful story we call the, readers attention to the equally modest double headed story as published in the Minneapolis Journal, a paper that is known the world over for its reliability and honorable methods, but the piracy of the Sioux Falls Press dropped the Journal into the Worthing headline rut which was unfortunate for the reliable and honorable methods of the journal. Here is the article, headlines and all as published in the Minneapolis Journal:
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BIG PIKE HAD A PALATE FOR VEAL. CAN ANYBODY BEAT THIS FISH STORY?
Monster Fish Invade Flooded Pasture and one makes away with a Calf — Yes, a Calf, Sundvold says.
BIG PIKE HAD A PALATE FOR VEAL. CAN ANYBODY BEAT THIS FISH STORY?
Monster Fish Invade Flooded Pasture and one makes away with a Calf — Yes, a Calf, Sundvold says.
Worthing, S. D., July 25.—During the last high water, large pike and carp made their way up a drainage canal in Grant township, this county, with the result that Henry Hanson, a farmer, lost a young calf, carried off by a giant pike. Melvin E. Sundvold tells the story as reported by Hanson.
The farmer heard a noise among his cattle one night and rushed out toward the trouble, which he found was near the canal. He found several calves standing belly deep in water, and noticed one little calf making a desperate effort to pull its tail free from something.
The farmer, with his bare legs, was afraid of barbed wire, but he waded cautiously toward the calf and, just as he caught it, a monster pike lashed the water all over him, and for a moment he was blinded. Wiping the water from his
