"A NARROW ESCAPE
If you wish to know how things look to a man up a tree ask Pete Miller [Mueller]. He has been there lately and can probably tell you all about it. Up to the present time electricity has held the record for shinning tree and peeling off the bark but Pete has lightning skinned to a finish by his stunt of last Sunday, when he beat the record ascending a tree at the same time knocking the bark off both the tree and his shins. Perhaps a large share of the credit should go to the pacemaker which, contrary to the usual custom, traveled behind instead of in front of him. To make the matter a little plainer, we might explain that the pacemaker was a large sized bull which, objecting to Mr Miller's presence in Nick Hennen's pasture, proceeded to perforate him full of holes. However, Mr Miller escaped serious injury by climbing a tree where the bull held him for an hour and a half. We are informed that the bull has since been converted into beef in which condition he will be less dangerous".
--Pierz Journal, July 22, 1909
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