Paid Good Price For The Chickens

PAID GOOD PRICE FOR THE CHICKENS

A Dog Killed Four Spring Fowls

And His Owner Was Taxed $21.54- A Warmly Contested Case in Justice Gibson's Court

Charles Bucholz, of 921 W. Washington street, makes do pretense of being a chicken fancier and would not deem himself eligible to membership in the Washtenaw Poultry association, and yet he was induced, by a decision of Justice Gibson's court Wednesday, to dig up $21.54 in payment for four chickens which had belonged to Fred Breisch, a neighbor.

   Bucholz is the owner of a dog which white probably worth not 29 cents yet has acquired an appetite for spring chicken which would put to blush the proverbial taste for fowl attributed to the "colored individual." According to reports this animal has during the past summer gotten away with forty-seven chickens, but on the trial only four could be proven and the jury assessed the damages at and taxed the defendant with the costs.

   The case was warmly contested, a host of witnesses being subpoenaed on each side and the court room being crowded with spectators. On the principal witnesses was a young girl but recently come from Germany, who had not yet mastered all the intricacies of the English language.

   "Can't you understand a little better than that?" mildly inquired the justice, after several futile attempts to help the witness catch the drift of his questions.

   "I wish you go to Germany," retorted the girl, "and then you see how little you understand."