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OWLS MAKE KANSAS TOWN UNSAFE The local streets are unsafe fon pedestrians after dark on account of the nightly battles between large flocks of owls. Remaining in the trees during the day, they swarm about like locusts at night and have become so numerous and vicious that they attack human beings. It is unsafe for women and children to venture "out after dark. In several instances persons have been struck on the liead and rendered unconscious.- One woman was painfully hurt by a direct attack from an owl, which she had tried to ward off wjth an umbrella. Steps are being taken by the authorities to rid the city of its strange pests.
