From 1976: Debery Gage 14, and neighbor Tip Harrison, 13, were walking in the woods near their homes in the Spokane Valley when they saw a bizarre sight: a red-tailed hawk hanging upside down, tied to a tree.
The hawk was 30 feet up the tree, but that did not deter young Debery. He climbed up the tree and cut the hawk down.
Then he took the hawk home and began caring for it.
“Right now, it is eating a chicken neck,” his mother said.
The hawk appeared to have an injury to a leg and wing, and they said they might donate it to the Walk in the Wild Zoo when it recovers.
His mother said the hawk was evidently not a hunting hawk and she could not figure out why anyone would want to tie a bird in a tree.
From 1926: Idaho authorities were investigating two brazen holdups by armed gunmen.
The first occurred in a logging camp on Emerald Creek. The lumberjacks were relaxing in their bunkhouse when “two stickups entered and took $90 from the crew.” Each robber carried a brace of revolvers and escaped in a “mud-covered roadster.”
The other incident occurred when a lone gunman entered a freight car and stole $60 from four men returning to Spokane from their logging camps. The gunman ordered them “to line up against the wall.”
It was unclear whether the incidents were related, but both occurred on the route of the Milwaukee railroad.
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