We have often heard the expression
"Gone to the Dogs," but instead of
Estancia "Going to the Dogs" the dogs
have come to Estancia, for no matter
in what direction one may look, one can
see six or eight worthless curs hang-
ing around back doors, meat markets
and elsewhere; yelping, snarling and
fighting, strolling in packs over town
and the immediate vicinity making
night hideous with their howls; it is
positively dangerous to small children
to meet a pack of these beasts and it
certainly takes a great deal of some
kindjof food to keep them alive (the
dogs I mean) and most of them arc
very fat and strong. Now, a dog that
is worth keeping, is worth paying tax
on and I am in favor of destroying all
the dogs in Estancia Valley that are
not worth paying tax upon. Tax the
dog owners and appropriate the dog
tax to fixing up the streets and keeping
them clean, also putting in street
lamps and maintaining them. Now
such a measure would do more good
than can be imagined and again, if an
epktemk of Rabies were to occur
among these packs of canine "nuis
ences' you only have to think a mo
ment to see what would happen. Not
. ..1 TI .T T-i . 1 i
uiouy wetKb ago jvir. rorcer naa a
hog torn up and eaten in the pen by
roving dogs and that one hog was
worth more than all the dogs in Tor
rance county My own dog included.
Now I say tax dogs, tie 'em up or kill
them. What do you say?
"Dundee!"
George Torrance arrived from Butler
.ounty, Kansas, this week to locate
permanently in the valley.
