"TEX"

     "Tex" was a crow rescued by Margaret Taschereau when it was about 3 months old.  It remained a pet, surviving until about the winter of 1966-67.  Mason City is now the part of Coulee Dam that is on the North-East side of the Columbia River.  Lone Pine is a small unincorporated village between Coulee Dam and Elmer City.  What paper the first article appeared in is not certain.  The next two articles appeared in the Spokane Chronicle in 1940 and 1941 respectively.  The third is marked 1942, but no indication of what paper.  The Wenatchee World also published articles about the crow, most recently in 1962.
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Tex Gets His Broken Leg Splinted, Free

     GRAND COULEE DAM, July 6. -- "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City, 3 months old, was rushed to Mason City hospital Friday afternoon with a broken leg, incurred when a small boy threw a rock at him.
     "Doctor" Pete Bashta placed one of the smallest plaster of paris casts ever applied in the hospital, 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches long, to the ailing leg leg and inserted a small wire support on which the patient will be able to walk while recuperating.
     The hospital staff made no charge for the operation, but the patient in appreciation opened his mouth and cawed three times.
     "Tex" is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taschereau, who operate a service station in Elmer City.  "Dr." Bashta, who doesn't hold an M.D., is an employee in charge of medicine.


Smallest Leg Cast Recorded Near Dam

     MASON CITY, July 6. (Special.) 
     The smallest plaster cast ever applied at the CBI hospital to reduce a leg fracture was made Friday afternoon for 3-month-old "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City.  The leg was broken by a rock hurled by a small boy.
     Pete Bashta, who constructed the cast, said it was three inches long and an inch in diameter.  It was reinforced by a small wire.  Among unusual features of the operation was the fact there was no charge on the part of the hospital staff, but there was plenty of "cawes."
     Tex is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, operators of an Elmer City service station.


WEEK IS TRYING FOR SMALL CROW

     ELMER CITY, Sep. 1. (Special)
     Tex has had a very trying week.  After the confusion of the heavy rain storm Tuesday, during which the Taschereau service station was inundated by almost a foot of water, poor forgotten Tex was found feebly and disconsolately in the corner of the station.
     "Tex," the pet crow of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, gained fame a year ago by being the smallest patient at the Mason City hospital, where surgeons placed tiny splints on a broken leg.  The lonely crow was excited last week by the arrival of several hundred sea gulls who descended upon the stretch of Columbia river at Elmer City behind the Taschereau service station, and then came the storm.


Playful Pet Crow Sets House on Fire

     LONE PINE, Wash., Aug. 1 (Special.)
     "Tex," a pet crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Taschereau of Elmer City, found his way into a box of "Play-Safe" matches in the Taschereau home Wednesday evening and succeeded in starting a fire in the bedroom.
     Mrs. Taschereau, who was working upstairs in the gas station, thought she detected the odor of burning rags.  Upon going down below to investigate she found a fire burning in one end of the bedroom.  some shirts and stockings of Mr. Taschereau's were on fire.  The blaze was soon extinguished.  Tex evidently knew he had done wrong as he sulked in a corner for some time afterward.