Seattle, Wash.—Eagles, busy gathering food for their young ones and flying down from their nests in the crags of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, are unusually daring. Instances are being reported where they have attacked men, women and children. They are also charged with carrying off lambs, pigs, dogs, cats and farmyard poultry. A month’s file of a local daily newspaper shows the following:
    George Hartman, hunter, of North Yakima, Wash., attacked by maddened eagle and severely scratched and flesh torn. A stage coach driver near Hartford. Wash., attacked while sitting on his wagon and face badly torn by the big bird’s talons.
    Farmers, near Brinnon declare they are losing much young stock by thieving eagles. More eagles are nesting in the foothills of the Olympics than ever before. The increased food supplies, consisting of the small farm animals is given as the cause of so many eagles.
    A report from Mason county states that bald eagles are swooping down on farmyards and carrying off poutry, principally ducks and geese. A big rooster on a Mason county farm fought a fierce battle with a small eagle of some unknown species and won out, putting the marauder to flight.
    News comes from Blaine that farmers observed two eagles descend from high in the air and attack and carry for over a mile two day-old lambs. The sheep in the pen were so badly frightened by the flapping of wings and bleating of the dying lambs as to break from the inclosure and run pellmell into a brook, 15 drowning.
    A news story under it Enumclaw date, telling about a pair of eagles that had a nest on a high, rocky ledge near there, says, “A newly hatched eaglet fell from the nest 300 feet into the valley. Several children coming from a Sunday-school picnic passed near by and were set upon and badly frightened by the old birds. So incensed were the eagles that they followed the scared boys and girls to their homes and were only routed by the firing of a shotgun toward them as they circled over the houses.
    Items were printed from various towns on the Pacific slope of the Cascade Mountains, noting the presence of many eagles and the inroads they occasionally made into the big pens of ranchers and yards of poultrymen.
    Henry Greeg, dog catcher for Seattle, shot a large bald eagle when the bird was circling over the enclosure containing more than 100 captive dogs. Whether the bird intended to capture a dog for food is not known, but the dogs had observed the eagle and set up such a continuous howl as to attract the attention of the manager of the pound.

From—The Virginia Enterprise. (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.), 15 July 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.