The La Cygne Weekly Journal Linn County Saturday October 19, 1878 A disgraceful exhibition of human depravity occurred in Scott township between Sunday night and Monday morning. Thomas HOPE had four cows badly cut with some sharp instrument, supposed to be either a hatchet or a corn knife. One cow as so horribly injured that it had to be killed. A.A. McINTYRE had two steers in the pasture with Mr. Hope's stock, and they were also victims of mutilation. It was a mean act and the perpetrators, if found, should be punished as they deserve.